The Poetic Beauty of Wang Zengqi's Novels through the Perspective of Receiving the Precepts

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The Poetic Beauty of Wang Zengqi's Novels through the Perspective of Receiving the Precepts

Huiqun Qiu 1*
  • 1 Faculty of Teacher Education, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350000, China    
  • *corresponding author 3180400178@caa.edu.cn
CHR Vol.3
ISSN (Print): 2753-7072
ISSN (Online): 2753-7064
ISBN (Print): 978-1-915371-29-4
ISBN (Online): 978-1-915371-30-0

Abstract

Wang Zengqi is a writer living in both the modern and contemporary eras. He was a premature and late bloomer, having been published in the 1940s but not becoming famous until the early 1980s. He published his novel Receiving The Precepts, sparking a literary sensation and providing a breath of fresh air to the befuddled literary scene of the time. Receiving The Precepts is a relatively short novel in which a vast amount of folk traditions components are presented. Using the novel Receiving The Precepts as its point of focus, this work concentrates on the lyrical elegance present in Wang Zengqi's literary works. It is addressed from three different angles. The novel's fundamentally poetic characters are highlighted by its versification and prose-cultural dramatic structure, to name the first. The second is the emphasis on how characters are portrayed and how their prose-cultural writing style is produced. The article also conducts a textual analysis while focusing on the way the novel employs folk vernacular. To properly appreciate Receiving The Precepts' pure folkloric beauty, it is necessary to examine its three key aspects, structure, character development, and language features. Through his construction of the world of vernacular customs and the secularization of rural folklore, Wang Zengqi creates a world of vernacular folklore with multiple aesthetic values. By re-examining the relations between the urban and the rural, he regards rural folklore from the perspective of folk culture and writes about the spontaneous life of folk characters, constructing a rural world with multiple aesthetic values.

Keywords:

folk characteristics, folkloric beauty, poetic beauty

Qiu,H. (2023). The Poetic Beauty of Wang Zengqi's Novels through the Perspective of Receiving the Precepts. Communications in Humanities Research,3,548-553.
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[8]. Zhang Chuanping. (2007). The great love and beauty of the mundane world: A trial of Wang Zengqi's novel on the subject of personnel in his hometown. Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) (05), 102-107. doi:10.13763/j.cnki.jhebnu.psse.2007.05.014.

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Qiu,H. (2023). The Poetic Beauty of Wang Zengqi's Novels through the Perspective of Receiving the Precepts. Communications in Humanities Research,3,548-553.

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References

[1]. Wang Yao. (2004). In and out of the trend: Centering on Wang Zengqi in the early eighties. Contemporary Writers Review (04), 114-120. doi:10.16551/j.cnki.1002-1809.2004.04.016.

[2]. Ma Feng. (1995). Wang Zengqi and the novel of the new period: A literary historical perspective. Literature and Art Review (04). doi:10.16566/j.cnki.1003-5672.1995.04.009.

[3]. Tu Yili. (2012). Wang Zengqi's "gray box"-its place in the literature of the 1980s from the perspective of "realism" transformation. Modern Chinese Literature Research Series (01), 162-173. doi:10.16287/j.cnki.cn11-2589/i.2012.01.013.

[4]. FitzGerald, C. (2008). Imaginary Sites of Memory: Wang Zengqi and Post-Mao Reconstructions of the Native Land. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 20(1), 72-128.

[5]. Shao, N. N.. (2005). The spiritual-historical trajectory of the evolution of Wang Zengqi's novels before and after. Literary and Artistic Controversy (03), 98-102.

[6]. Wang Zengqi. The Collected Works of Wang Zengqi [C]. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 1998: 426-427.

[7]. Luo Qiangli. (1993). The folk meaning of Wang Zengqi. Contemporary Writers Review (01), 4-9. doi:10.16551/j.cnki.1002-1809.1993.01.001.

[8]. Zhang Chuanping. (2007). The great love and beauty of the mundane world: A trial of Wang Zengqi's novel on the subject of personnel in his hometown. Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) (05), 102-107. doi:10.13763/j.cnki.jhebnu.psse.2007.05.014.

[9]. Zeng Yiguo. (2006). The "realism" of the past: From Wang Zengqi's theory of "realism". Literary Review (04), 61-69.

[10]. Wang Zengqi. A Review of Fiction [A]. The Complete Works of Wang Zengqi (Vol. 6) [C]. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 1998: 59-61.

[11]. Qian Zhenwen. (2006). The "alternative" gesture and the "alternative" effect: Wang Zengqi's novel "Precepted" as the center. Contemporary Writers Review (02), 30-37. doi:10.16551/j.cnki.1002-1809.2006.02.010.

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