Selected Prose by Wang Zengqi

Reading this book is not just about appreciating beautiful articles, beautiful scenery, and delicious food... In fact, Mr. Wang shared a lot of useful information. For example, "My Teacher Shen Congwen" teaches some writing methods. Current writing textbooks are not even as good as one or two paragraphs of this article: One thing he often says is: "You have to write about the characters." What does this sentence mean? You can understand it in various shades. This sentence is very rich in content. According to my understanding, the author cannot look down or look down on the characters he writes about. The author needs to be very close to the characters. The author's thoughts, feelings, and heart should be very close to the characters, and he should feel the joy and sorrow with the characters, and feel everything around him (Mr. Shen likes to use the word "feeling" very much, and he always wants students to train their own feelings). When you can't "catch" the characters and are far away from them, you have no choice but to write some specious empty words. Everything belongs to the characters. Scenery and narrative cannot be divorced from the characters. The scenery must be something that the characters can feel. You have to use the character's eyes to see the scenery, use the character's ears to hear, and use the character's nose to smell. The evening scene on the river written in "The Husband" is the evening scene seen by the husband. The autumn described in "Guisheng" is the autumn that Guisheng feels. The language used to describe scenes and narratives must be coordinated with the language (dialogue) of the characters. In this way, the characters can be permeated throughout the novel, so that readers can feel the characters between the lines, and at the same time feel the author's style. Style is the author's feelings about the characters. Without character, style does not exist. These can only be understood after getting along with Mr. Shen for a long time and reading many of his works. Just the sentence "write according to the character", who knows what it means? For another example, he once criticized a novel of mine and said, "You are just two smart heads fighting!" Let a third party listen to it, and he will say, "What does this mean?" I understand. My novel uses a lot of dialogue, and I try to make the dialogue deeper, more beautiful, poetic, and philosophical. In fact, no one talks like this, not even two poets. Mr. Shen's words are equivalent to saying: This is untrue. Most of the dialogues in Mr. Shen's novels are ordinary but still make people feel the characters and find them beautiful. From then on, I mentally wrote the dialogue to be simpler and more realistic.

Mr. Wang's collection of essays is very beautiful! Narrated in a straightforward manner and eloquently, the complex story flows out from the old gentleman's writing, just like a clear spring trickling down to moisten things silently. The language is gentle and smooth, very down-to-earth, and you can't stop reading it. The scattered daily life is as colorful as a kaleidoscope in the old man's writing, and his writing skills are amazing!

This book is like a kind elder chatting with you and sharing bits and pieces of life. Every home-cooked dish in the book reminds me of the taste of my mother, and also reminds me of the warm scene of me and my relatives and friends sitting together to eat. I like Mr. Wang Zengqi's love for life and unique insights into food. As he said in his book, "Talk about eating is also an attitude towards life." He made me understand that the beauty in life is hidden in the ordinary details. As long as we feel it with our hearts, we can discover the fun in it.

One thing I found is that Mr. Wang rarely has emotional descriptions, especially the emotional descriptions of negative people and things are very few. They are usually objective and have a plain, fresh and natural personal style, which is probably the external manifestation of Mr. Wang's transparent and harmonious heart; This reminds me of the violent trend in various circles on the Internet today, and it also reflects the valuable spiritual quality of this book.

I watched it once when I was in junior high school and revisited it again when I was in college. It is indeed a classic [shy][shy]

Childhood, youth, youth, middle age, old age. From birth, toddling, high-spirited, until old age. Human life is like a flower, from seeds to buds, and then from buds to flower bones, blooming and then falling to the ground and turning into mud, disappearing in the mark of time. You, me and her in the memory, the ups and downs in the memory, are the proof of our existence and the summary of everything in the past.

Among essayists, Wang Zengqi is my favorite and I never tire of it.

Well, I can't comment on this book because I feel I don't deserve it. I can only use one word to describe it!

Plain and simple, the narration comes from life, giving fireworks and fragrance around [smile]

Plain but refreshing, it makes people feel the beauty of life. The author himself is also an interesting person

Very very beautiful

Simple and down-to-earth brushstrokes record delicious food! It makes people salivate and fascinate!

Wang Lao's prose is like a trickle of water that calms the restless heart, allowing you to appreciate the details of life and discover the beauty of life.

Real and relevant to life

So pretty, so pretty

Read more, read good books

I feel so hungry when I read a book in the middle of the night...

Recommended by the teacher, the content is good

There is a way to write about food and it is close to life. It is worth reading Mr. Wang's book! ! !

A major feature of the author's prose language is that he uses accurate words, is plain and fluent, has a clear structure, and narrates the teahouse from multiple angles.