Xi Murong, female, Mongolian, her full name is Mulun Xi Lianbo, which means mighty river. Born in Chongqing, Sichuan in 1943, his ancestral home is a nobleman of Ming'an Banner, Chahar League. After the Mongolian royal family, my grandmother was a royal princess. During his father's military life, Xi Murong was born in Sichuan. He started writing poems in his diary at the age of thirteen. At the age of fourteen, he entered the Art Department of Taipei Normal University and later the Art Department of National Taiwan Normal University. In 1964, he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, specializing in oil painting. After graduation, he served as associate professor of Fine Arts at Hsinchu Normal College in Taiwan. He has held dozens of personal exhibitions, published collections of paintings, and won many painting awards. In 1981, Taiwan's Dadi Publishing House published Xi Murong's first collection of poems, "Qili Xiang", and it was reprinted seven times within a year. Other poetry collections have also been reprinted. Graduated from the Art Department of National Taiwan Normal University and the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. She is a well-known painter in Taiwan, and is also a famous essayist and poet. She is the author of poetry collections "Qili Xiang", "Remless Youth", "Nine Chapters of Time", essay collections "There is a Song", "There are Poems in the Country", and art treatises. "The Exploration of the Soul", "Leise Art Dissent", etc. Her works are immersed in ancient Eastern philosophy and have religious overtones, revealing a desolate charm of the impermanence of life. Xi Murong writes mostly about love, life and nostalgia. His writing is extremely beautiful, elegant and clear, lyrical and smart, and full of true love for life. It influenced the growth of an entire generation.

Created poetry collections "Shells", "Youth without Complaints", "Qili Xiang", "Nine Chapters of Time", "In That Distant Place", "Song of the River", "There is a Song", "Three Strings" and "Written to "Happiness" "My Home on the Plateau" "Mountain Moon" "Zen" "Andante Cantabile" "If" "A Spring Afternoon" "History Museum"

Features of Brushstrokes

Xi Murong's prose poems show that it is like an illusion or a dream, a state that seems to be there or not, a state that is both far and near.

Is there a previous life for human existence? We don't need to do science. has been discussed and concluded, only in terms of the article lt;front edgegt;, the poet expresses her passionate love for the person she loves through the existence of her previous life.

This love was once ignored: "If you were a woman picking lotus in the south of the Yangtze River, I would be the one you missed under your bright wrist.

This love is full of complaints: "If you had been that urchin who skipped school, I would have been the brand-new marble that fell from your bag, watching you go away without knowing it in the grass by the roadside.

This love is willing to sacrifice: "If you were the eminent monk facing the wall, I would be the stick of incense in front of the temple, burning, accompanying you for a quiet time.

Three The juxtaposed images are all beautifully worded and fresh in style, especially placing the person you like and yourself in an unequal position, highlighting your own initiative and violence5

, which greatly enhances the emotional intensity. Penetrating power.

Because of this, "When we meet in this life, I always feel that there are some unresolved issues, but I am also in a trance, unable to identify them carefully, unable to tell you one by one." This is impossible. Distinguishing and indescribable feelings play the role of illusion, dream, and non-existent.

Also because of the intertwined description of this life and the previous life, I feel that it is far and near, far and near. It is difficult to distinguish boundaries, reality and ideals, psychology and analysis.

Evaluation of his works

The smooth language expression and the bookish atmosphere of delicate prose are in your It lingers in my mind. It gives people a meaningful language that inspires people to think about life issues rationally. Xi Murong's articles generally give people an inexplicable refreshing impression; their subjective feelings are satisfied and trigger the depth of their souls. Unconscious sense of identity and deep thinking about life. The language is extremely beautiful, easy to understand, and the structure is clear. It is truly thought-provoking; the real feelings can always move people! p>

1. Start by looking at the structure

One by one, each one is closer to the main idea, with a gradual process of evolution from concrete to abstract, which makes it simple and clear for readers to read. Without losing the author's expression of his own writing attitude; this reflects Xi Murong's consistent writing style with clear structure and ideas.

Look carefully at these five parts. In addition to their close connection, they also have their own independence. Each part reflects an aspect of the author's point of view. As the author of the first part puts it: "There should be such a moment of clarity in life."

2. Appreciation from the way of expression

It is completely descriptive, a mental narration, which embodies the characteristics of truthful and wise philosophical prose; there is also some delicate female emotion in it. beautiful.

The author mainly uses narrative and discussion methods to extend the process and narrate according to his personal thoughts; he only makes comments when necessary and puts forward his opinions.

The expression technique is described in detail, and in the first part, it is very obvious. For example: paragraphs 3 and 4 of the first part. There is also the lyricism that prose should have. For example, it is obvious that there are sentences with exclamation points!

3. Appreciation from the content and theme

The general content trend of this article is also very obvious. It starts from my own daily life and describes my ordinary secular life and enrichment. He has a rich spiritual world and a unique understanding of his attitude towards life.

Starting from my pencil sketch under the moon, my thoughts were also rendered by this environment, ("What a beautiful moonlight!", "Such a beautiful world is right in front of my eyes, it is not illusory") It’s not a dream, it’s just unbelievable.”), slowly unfolding; it’s a natural beginning, simple and clear, simple and true. EMk'

With the extension of his thoughts, he asked, "There should be such a moment of clarity in life, right?" This evoked the author's inner memories, "Facing a For students who are nineteen or twenty years old and have just started taking oil painting classes, I like to tell them a story.” He elaborated on his personal views on art and outstanding artists. In essence, he further mentioned the concept of survival in life: "While being moved, we must also learn to choose what we want and what we have to give up." 47

The third part is an exceptional narrative discussion of the theme of the second part. At the same time, it also triggered the next thought: "Otherwise, how can we calm down the envy and jealousy that are burning like fire in our hearts?"

In the fourth part, the author stated: "I believe that artists are all They are jealous people. "Provides another understanding and attitude towards jealousy from an artist's perspective! 6wyW

In fact, being jealous will encourage you to study hard and show your stronger side. "Use a lifetime to prove to myself that I can do as well as them, or even better." Therefore, life will be more exciting! US)Cgt; F

The fifth part mentions the preference for "artists who work quietly and hard." It describes the wonderful things about an artist working hard in the studio. "Artists have already entered middle age, but they are still walking quietly on this path that they have started from a very young age." Finally, the author issued a true sigh: "Human freedom, after understanding the meaning of life, After the essence, there should be no limit!" This is the most memorable sentence in "Written for Life"! V

Life should be free and dare to transcend constraints; it should also be clear, extremely simple, and always full of humanistic care; while enjoying secular life, it should also enjoy a rich spiritual world.

4. Overall Appreciation

Xi Murong writes mostly about love, life, and nostalgia. His writing is extremely beautiful, fresh, and easy to understand, so he has many readers. This article is one of her more successful works! It writes about the freedom of human life, the courage to transcend, the characteristics of purity and simplicity, fully enjoying secular life, and striving to enrich one's spiritual world. Since she teaches oil painting, most of the angles in this article are based on art, quoting some facts and talking about life issues. Xi Murong's unique creations and achievements in literature are also obvious to all.

Writing Techniques

1. Foreword

Xi Murong, a Mongolian girl who came to Ming'an Banner of Chahar League. In 1981, she published her first collection of new poems, "Qili Xiang", which became a whirlwind in Taiwan and its sales results were also astonishing.

In 1982, she published her first collection of essays, "Trace of Growth," which showed another form of her creation and continued the gentle and indifferent style of her new poetry.

Xi Murong's poetry has always attracted much attention. However, in recent years, her poetry output has decreased, and her prose works have continued to increase, which are also different from the characteristics of poetry. There are many articles commenting on her poetry. In fact, Xi Murong The prose also has another flavor. This article will take Xi Murong's prose works as the scope to explore its characteristics and writing skills. There are special features in his prose works, such as the important position of "flower" in his works. This article will analyze this phenomenon. In addition, Xi Murong's writing skills are also discussed, such as the combination of colors, the use of questions, and the use of repeated sentence patterns.

2. Characteristics - the description of flowers and the use of colors

The biggest features of Xi Murong’s prose works have two major aspects. One is the description of flowers, and the other is the use of colors. Vocabulary usage. As for the description of "flower", all kinds of flowers can be included in the article, among which lotus is the most closely related to her. Because Xi Murong is a painter herself, her use of color is naturally more appropriate than other writers, forming a characteristic of hers.

(1) Description of flowers

In Xi Murong’s prose, in addition to people, flowers are often used as objects, or flowers are interspersed in words to imply something. a symbolic meaning.

The whole big tree is covered with white flowers. The thick, green and dark leaves make the white flowers shine particularly brightly, and you can see them from a distance. …

What a big tree, planted deeply on the cliff by the sea. Decades ago, when those who came across the sea first began to live on this small island, this cliff It must have been covered with this type of coastal plants, right?

I think when that group of people just started to build their little cabin under the tree, they must have thought that this was just a temporary stay and that they would be able to leave soon, so they built this embarrassing and messy house. Bar?

Xi Murong likes to combine the characteristics of certain flowers with certain types of stories. Although the flower may only play a quiet role in the story, it occupies an important position in the whole story. For example, in "There is a Song: A Very Short Story of Flowers", Xi Murong wrote the story of a man and a woman, which begins with the blooming of the epiphyllum and ends with the withering of the epiphyllum.

Many years later, every time she smells the same flower fragrance, the girl will think of the boy who picked off the epiphyllum under the moon. They have not seen each other since that night.

He should not give her an epiphyllum. I heard it was an unfortunate sign.

Express Murong’s feelings about flowers in the form of a story. Flowers also play the role of catalysts. For readers, even if they have never experienced similar or identical situations, they can have a deeper feeling and immersive feeling through the atmosphere created by Xi Murong's writing. Perhaps this This is also one of the reasons why Xi Murong's works are always loved.

Every writer has his or her favorite thing, and Xi Murong is particularly fond of lotus. She painted and wrote about lotus flowers. However, she rarely praises the lotus alone. She always connects the lotus with people, or brings out the lotus through something. In literary criticism, there is a saying that "literature is like its people", which places special emphasis on the relationship between the writer's living environment and the style of his work. To explore the relationship between this phenomenon and Xi Murong, we can find the answer from Xi Murong's living environment and growth process.

That day was also the first time I saw the lotus pond in the botanical garden. Standing next to the lotus leaves in the pond, the air was filled with a vague but familiar fragrance. When I was a child, I traveled to Xuanwu with my father. The memory of the lake reappeared in front of my eyes in an instant, and the sunshine became softer in an instant. I seemed to have entered a different world, where time stood still and my heart was filled with a kind of vague nostalgia.

For me, reading and writing poetry are like lotus leaves. They can lead me into a different world every time, where there is nothing in my heart. Burden, I just like to review that kind of trance sweetness and sadness over and over again.

In the era when we waded across the river to pick hibiscus, the lotus leaves and flowers must have looked like this. Lotus, it’s really my nostalgia for an ancient era and ancient love.

I don’t know whether it’s because I’ve seen too many lotuses in paintings, or because I’ve waded into the river many times to pick hibiscus in ancient times, but I always have a strange feeling that the lotus is a familiar friend. Moreover, when we first met, we fell in love at first sight and couldn't bear to leave. Thousands of years have passed since then.

Dongpo only loved the breeze and the bright moon, and Zhou Dunyi wrote "On Love of the Lotus". For a writer, the thing he likes, the thing he loves, the thing he likes are not just words. In interpretation, what is important is the deep meaning and the tacit understanding between it and the writer, which is exactly what "Lotus" is for Xi Murong.

Xi Murong published a book entirely devoted to writing and chanting about lotuses, called "The Token". The content of this book uses Xi Murong's articles and needlepoint drawings to create the atmosphere of the whole book, showing the praise and love for lotus. She not only objectively and carefully describes the scenery, but also subjectively describes the emotions, giving the whole work a sense of blending of scenes and a situation where things and I are one.

I look at it every morning, watching its color change from dark purple covered with a layer of green to watery red, to soft pink and then to gray, watching its petals change from The tight buds bloom, bloom and then wither, as if watching a life from a young boy to the end day by day.

It turns out that this is how time passed. All the days become darker and darker as they go further and further away. Only when the lotus flowers are in full bloom, will those memories, those memories floating around them, rush back with what they knew they had remembered at the time, or what they thought they had remembered for many years. All kinds of details that have been forgotten.

In the contents of Xi Murong's works, people, things, times and places are often the same, but she uses different words to describe them, approaching them from all angles, and writing completely different tastes and Feel. For example, "The Sound of Flowers" and "Lotus Pond" are both based on a huge lotus sketch in Mr. Lin Yushan's 80-year retrospective exhibition. In "The Voice of Flowers", she was attracted by this painting, so she asked Mr. Lin Yushan what mood he was in when he painted it?

The teacher said that at that time, he had just returned to Taiwan from Japan, and together with his young friend, the two of them went to the mountains near Chiayi and lived next to a lotus pond for several days

Teacher He also said: "At that time, we were young and wanted to find out everything. We heard people say that the lotus is the most beautiful when it first blooms, and there is a sound when the flowers bloom, so the two of us slept next to the pond with our clothes on." At night, before dawn, I would get up and watch the flowers bloom, waiting to hear the sound of them blooming. ’

I never knew there was a sound when the lotus bloomed. Did the teacher really make the sound that day?

‘I heard it. It's a very light, subtle sound, but you can hear it. .........'

In the article "Lotus Pond", she adopts the same method of presentation and extends the time to July of the fifth year of Showa when Mr. Lin Yushan listened to lotus flowers. She slowly narrates an event that happened in that time word for word. The story of the Japanese occupation era, and then the scene is brought back to May 1991, which is the venue of the 80th retrospective exhibition. She wrote that the Zhang family, who collected the painting, took great care of the 'Lotus Pond'. Xi Murong used her soft brushstrokes to record the origin and whereabouts of the giant lotus sketch, and she also bore witness to it.

This is a rare encounter!

Sixty-one years later, at noon in early summer, the exhibition hall of the art museum seemed particularly cool due to the scorching sun outside, and the artist and his paintings met again.

The young painter who stood by the pool now has frosty hair on his temples, but his eyes are still clear, and he still hides his desire for life and beauty. The art he painted stroke by stroke The works were hung on the walls of many exhibition halls in the museum, and he had to lead his students and the audience to see them one by one.

However, before turning around and leaving the painting of 'Lotus Pond', the white-haired artist suddenly paused, looked back at the lotus pond again, and then turned around with a smile. Come and lead us forward.

Teacher, did you hear anything?

"The Voice of Flowers" was published in 1989, and "Lotus Pond" is the author's new work in 1996. The same past event, nearly seven years later, Xi Murong tells it in a different way The expression technique once again shows the emotion in her heart. If it were not for her deep love for the lotus, how could she have gone through a long time without forgetting it!

Xi Murong once mentioned in "Trace of Growth: Preface": 'I am a person who likes to "look back"'. This also proves that her works often have a retrospective meaning, except for the example of "Lotus Pond" mentioned above. The story of her father taking her to Xuanwu Lake to see lotus flowers when she was a child is often mentioned in the article. Different writing methods are used to cut into the time before and after. Although it is the same thing, the writing methods from different angles make it difficult for people to get bored.

At dusk in Xuanwu Lake, I sit between my father’s legs and my father paddles with both hands.

The boat sets off from the shade of willows and flows quietly on the lake covered with lotus leaves. . Twilight makes everything blurry and quiet. The little hand holds a full lotus pod, and in the small mind, the happiness in the world is as full as the lotus pod and as fragrant as the lotus seeds.

The earliest lotus in my memory is probably the one my father gave me when I was five years old when he took me boating on Xuanwu Lake.

My father's arms are so safe and warm. Being able to monopolize my father's arms makes me feel a sense of uneasy surprise and pride for the five-year-old me. Along with the memory, there is also the faint yellow on the lake. Gray purple twilight.

Xi Murong’s love for ‘flowers’ has obviously become a distinctive feature in her works. For her, flowers are the most important luggage in her memory, and behind every flower there is a feeling of reluctance. The flower also represents something that moved Xi Murong's heart, or a person who is deeply remembered. Such works can easily arouse the excitement of readers and are naturally popular.

The crabapple flower is the flower that belonged to my mother when she was young. ...But there has never been such a cruel war, there has never been such years of displacement, and no nation has ever endured so much suffering. Therefore, none of the girls of that generation can realize their dreams. ... What I want to buy is not only the potted flower, but also the beautiful scenery in the potted flower, the ancient and fragrant homeland in the potted flower, and I finally understand my mother's heart.

All the memories will appear in front of me with its fragrance. I think maybe what I love is not the flowers, but all the passing time. Behind every flower, there are memories that I cherish.

Many years have passed again...the roses are still there, and everything that belongs to that summer will come back. I can almost still smell the fragrance of the pine needles in the forest under the sun. ……

In front of flowers, I am a contented person.

(2) The use of matching colors

Walking into Xi Murong’s flower world, you can find her consistent warm style of writing. As a painter, she also describes the colors of flowers in her articles. He is more sensitive and delicate than ordinary writers, giving his works a more vivid feel. Most of the construction of its imagery is based on the use of color. The article presented to the reader is no longer just a rigid two-dimensional text, but a three-dimensional picture.

It is that familiar mountain forest. A kind of wild flower is blooming all over the mountain. The long and straight flower stalks are decorated with strings of wind chimes ranging from purple to light red to pure white, set against the green wild grass, and behind The lush green, black and blue scenery is a fascinating picture after another.

The entire grassland stretches as far as the eye can see, except for the blue of the sky, the white of the clouds, the green of the grass, the brown and yellow of some earth and rocks on the distant hills, and the gray and green of a few miscellaneous trees.

The dark brown background is painted with horizontal branches of chrysanthemums. The branches are dark green, and the petals should originally be white, but in the artist's brush, they have a layer of autumn fragrance that seems to have been slowly dyed yellow by time.

I was walking hand in hand with my father on the outskirts of Bonn in autumn. The weather was good. The big trees in the courtyards of the houses on the roadside were golden, and the thin white swings hung quietly on the green grass.

When he said this, it was a sunny summer day at noon. The sun was shining down from the emerald green branches, and there was a layer of green jade-like light and shadow in the forest [21]

The sky is so clean, that kind of clear blue, and the grass is so soft, that kind of fine green. Male and female students wearing white shirts and gray sweatpants sat scattered under the tree. When the wind blew, the small pink and purple petals of the sheep's hoof fell gently and softly

Xi Murong used colors to match the description of flowers. Visualize the abstract idea you want to convey clearly and clearly. It is very easy for readers to enter the emotions she wants to express when reading Xi Murong's works, and the color is indispensable.

Three Writing Skills

Xi Murong’s writing style is good at using repeated sentence patterns, which makes her articles present a soothing musical style and full of pastoral pastoral mood. In terms of management, in addition to focusing on the overall effect, we also pursue the beauty of words. Her articles are all centered on characters. In the plain description, it is easy to see her sincerity, which has the characteristics of indifferent prose.

Perhaps because of being a poet at the same time, Xi Murong's prose will intentionally or unintentionally appear to have a "jumping feeling" that is only found in poetry, omitting the necessary connectives in the prose, or using the arrangement of words and sentences. , integrating poetic feeling into prose has a unique flavor.

The use of questions is a major feature in Xi Murong's works. Whether it appears in the text or at the end of the text, in fact, what she wants to express may be a vague and uncertain mentality. , she is not only asking herself but also asking questions to the readers. In particular, when Xi Murong uses questions, he usually does not use them just once, but often repeats them again and again, connecting them down, creating a heavy atmosphere that envelopes the entire text.

What kind of woman did they wave goodbye to? Under the snow-white apple blossoms, or on the fragrant hillsides, when they waved, did they ever think that such a wave would mean more than thirty years of blank time?

I am also peeling myself off layer by layer, wondering, which layer is the real me? Is she the woman who lives happily as a wife and mother? Or is she the woman who is a cautious student and a teacher?

Is she the woman painting the oil painting stroke by stroke in the studio? Or the woman who wrote down her diary word by word under the lamp?

Is she the woman who sheds tears for no reason at dusk, holding a bouquet of lilies? Or the woman riding a bike alone on a winding mountain road, chasing the moon with a smile?

What kind of person am I? Which one of me is the real me? And who can truly understand my love and cherishment of this world? Who can really believe it?

Sixty years are really accumulated one stroke at a time, day after day, as we move forward. Why is it that when we look back, it feels like a rapids? And passed?

What is the teacher thinking when he stands in front of the painting?

Is this the life that I couldn’t understand when I was young?

Where is that carefree and confident little wild horse?

Am I wise enough to overcome the predicament at hand? Can we return to that vast and peaceful sky? Can you regain the feeling of running through sand and snow? Also, my cherished, creative life of solitude?

Under the light of the quiet night, I asked myself softly, can I still do it?

Continuously asking yourself questions also gives readers the opportunity to ask themselves. Xi Murong does not and is unwilling to put the answers into words, because the same question may be asked by different people in different time and space environments. When different answers appear, she always leaves some room for readers to have room for imagination and reflection. Therefore, Xi Murong's article is full of words and boundless meanings.

4. Conclusion

Xi Murong is lyrical, and the techniques used in the work express this message. The repeated sentence patterns and the use of questions make the text full of emotions. There is a sense of jumping, and there are still strange sentences inadvertently. Although the style is prose, it has a strong poetic meaning. This is why Xi Murong's prose works are different from other prose writers.

For Xi Murong, 'flower' is not just a flower, but has been personified and reappeared in the work. When it is just a still life, he does not know that he is actually a bystander. When Xi Murong paints When writing it, it was like her close friend, and she also got a response from it. "Looking at flowers is not flowers" should be Xi Murong's unique characteristic.