Zhou Tongbin's Prose In The Perspective Of Article Studies

Zhou Tongbin is a famous contemporary writer. Based on his writings, the paper tries to distinguish their contents, structures, techniques and languages according to the concrete samples. The paper tries to explore the development direction of the contemporary prose, and also aims at finding out some methods and regular patterns from a point to noodle.The paper composes of three parts: preface, body, andconclusion .The preface introduces briefly the reason of the topic, current research, the angles and indication of the demonstr- ation .The body is divided into three chapters according to the logical order.Chapter One: Zhou Tongbin and his proseZhou Tongbin is a famous contemporary prose writer. He has offered more than 1000 prose writtings in his 40 years' prose creation. His representative work—Huang Tian Hou Tu has won the first session of Lu Xun prize .Zhou Tongbin was born in a small village of the southeast corner in Nanyang basin, he spent his teen-agers here. The hometown's beautiful rural scenery, the mellow beautiful custom public sentiment as well as the farmer's sorrow survival condition have made a profound impression to him. The experiences of his teen-agers have depressed his mind and temperament deeply and also have had important influence on the formation of his thought and personality. The author stated many times that:"I am a farmer's son .""The farmer's blood is circulating in my body."This kind of experiences and the thoughts have decided contents and the main key of his works, and also affect the technique utilization and the language choice. His prose is a towering big tree which grows up in his hometown. Taking root in the fertile soil, these works absorb folk art widely, all nearly are "rustic" articles which are related to the countryside and farmer. The more local, the more national. The more national, the more worldwide. Is local then is the nationality, is the nationality then is the world. His local prose works are translated to overseas and obtained the high praise which proved this. These honors are the writer's creation's awarding, also the full affirmation to him for breaking through boldly and opening a new pathway of the prose.Chpter Two: Work researchWe analyze Zhou Tongbin's prose thoroughly and carefully in order to discover the characteristics of the themes, contents, styles, structures, techniques, languages in his works. This is a key point which the paper states.The theme of Zhou Tongbin's prose is extremely wide -spread: not only the beautiful rural sceneries, chaste simple common social practice, glorious holiday folk custom, the progress of production and life, the evolution of thought and emotion, and also including the strange person and the matter, the goods apparatus, the scenery, the grass, the worm, the fish and etc in his hometown as well as the surprising facts of the farmer's pitiful destiny, difficult life, spiritual pains, the old customs, the bad behaviors, the feudal superstition, ignorant backwardness and etc. There are also some anger and worries about the environment worsening, the moral's perish, embezzlement and corruption in his prose. His prose shows the full life about reform and open policy around the village life .It has recorded the path of the farmer's production, life and emotion evolution under the reform and open policy background.When he narrates to the countryside and the farmers, Zhou Tongbin has poured his full true feelings. At the end of seventies in the 20th century, facing the new situation of the reform and open policy, the writer sang the song of praise which was from his heart. At that time, the writer followed Yangshuo's pattern, pursued the poetic sentiment. After 80's intermediate stages, as a result of social life change and some questions' exposition, as well as the writer's ideological recognition and esthetic pursuit change, these have caused the evolution and deepening of the author's prose idea. Zhou Tongbin went out of "the village poem, the poem village" pattern, entering a new creation time by the elegy primarily. He paid more attention to the misery of the villages, the farmers' backwardness, singing many soul-stirring non-word songs. In this process, Zhou Tongbin has had a great change. He broke through the original prose pattern, selected a set of brand-new language methods and gradually formed a kind of dilute style.Zhou Tongbin's prose also has the peculiar characteristic in the structures and the techniques. The structures of his prose are various, issue document like passing clouds and flowing water, either orderly or loose. It takes from the nature completely and there's no artificial trace. Specially he pays attention to the opening and the ending design of the article .The opening is often noticeable, the ending often provides much food for thought. The techniques of his prose are various and colorful,superb , always makes one exclaim over. The contrast, serves as contrast, the outline drawing, humor and so on are all commonly used techniques in his prose.The unique language is Zhou Tongbin's prose another extremely important achievement .On the foundation of the farmers' spoken language, he widely absorbs the vitality ingredient of the songs, the dramas, the literary style , mixing them together to form a new kind of language which is including both the kind" conversation style" and the "chewy bitterness".Readers called this language "Zhou Tongbin style". Its characteristic is: the brief sentence type, many stops , the strong rhythm ,more multipul -pose full words ,less function words ,to agree in opinion primarily .It breaks the grammatical and logical ties, and has strong subjectivity ,easy understanding ,the vivid image and the bright region characteristics. Chapter Three: The value and enlightenment of Zhou Tongbin's proseZhou Tongbin's prose has the significant thought value. It really had reflected comprehensively the contemporary farmer's life and destiny ,revealed their survival difficulty and the spirital poverty ,which has caused the people's attention to the farmers' problems . In the history ,his prose describes the farmer's production, life, thoughts and emotions with the farmer's language for the first time .It has the meaning of "the farmer remembers". The author's goal is precisely "makes a record for the present ,keeps a file for the later generation ". There are also many fold songs,the nursery rhymes and local operas in his works .They have reflected truthfully around the Chinese countryside cultural life appearance in the 1980s .Therefore ,his prose also has the important historical data value and the linguistics value.Moreover, Zhou Tongbin thoroughly has also pondered the con -temporary prose phenomenon. He has also carried on the bold question to the traditional prose theory and the prose patt erns .He has pondered many questions :Prose concept ,the relations between elegance and ugliness , expressing feelings in prose ,some prose theory fuzziness and so on .In the creation ,he attempts his own diligently prose views .He has obtained great success .He has opened up the prose creation domains ,exploring a new way in prose creation .These will certainly be able to have long-term and the positive influence to the next prose development.The conclusion summarizes all main points in the whole paper .Zhou Tongbin's prose has really recorded around con prehensively about the farmer's changes in many aspects such as production, life, thoughts , emotions before and after the China's reform and open policy which has left behind the farmer's datas for the first time in the Chinese history. He has all carried on the unprecedented attempt in aspects of the prose themes, techniques and languages and got a great success . Now ,we carry on to his prose creation and theory study thoroughly to excavate the rule of prose writing .We believe that this can help the Chinese prose to obtain a very good development.