Pellucid And Sober Sincere And Pure

Yang Jiang is known for a rational and intelligent scholarly writer. With her high talent and being diligent all her life, Yang Jiang has been successful in writing prose, fiction, drama, as well as in translating a large number of literary works. Compared with novels and plays, as the demonstration of the attitude of her manners and unique personality, the prose works of Yang Jiang is much more intuitive. This paper mainly takes Yang Jiang's prose works as the study subject, consisting of three aspects: Yang Jiang s attitude towards her prose writing, her prose writing style and her personality embodied in her prose. Although experienced the Anti-Japanese War, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution and a large variety of thrilling events, Yang Jiang was upholding the Confucian Shi Hong Ming s attitude of life---- keep cool-headed, such as soup eliminates snow , and she blended such characteristic into her prose. As a result, the prose in content presents the main feature called line drawing , and its theme do not take unusual life but small interludes in the big events and the real emotions of the little people as its subject matter, in the petty details of ordinary life to appreciate some deep meaning. In such creative state of mind, the text of Yang Jiang s prose is simple but meaningful, reasonable and sentient, not only showing some kind of Pellucid and Sober, Sincere and Pure aesthetic realm, but also reflecting her own recollection of the entire life course.