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