Inheritance And Transcendence

Liu Qing highly valued the importance of language’s abstraction. His novels extensivelyabsorbed both the elegance of classic literary and the refinement of folk language so that heformed a language style with rich flavor of life and literature. The novels of him put greatemphasis on lyrical narrative, devoting wholly personal feeling and emotion between the lines.After objective description, there always could be found an explanation to previous scene orevaluative account of events and the characters in the process of plot development. To shape thecharacters, his novels distinguished social status and individual temperament between differentcharacters and made external action match language to express the change of characters’ innerworld, promoting the development of the plots. Liu Qing was also a master of psychological andscenery description. He often selected authentic third person’s perspective, through description ofcharacters’ emotional change to “witness” development of whole event and skillfully, therefore hecould control the distance of novels and make readers feel being personally on the scene. LiuQing’s description of scenery was consistent with “Undivided” aesthetic advocated by traditionalChinese poetics.Liu Qing’s experience had a very far-reaching impact on Lu Yao. Lu Yao carried forwardemotional engagement of Liu Qing’s narrative feature, but he did not satisfy pure comment, on thecontrary, he gave commentary when his personal emotion matches up with immediate feelings ofthe characters. He neither deliberately overstated the “nobleness” of character, nor simplyinterfered with emotional psychology of characters, but expressed more “moral criticism” ofhuman nature. He transformed Liu Qing’s “passion narrative” and conveyed his understanding oflife rationally and warmly. Lu Yao carried on the psychological realism from Liu Qing. In order toget close to the reader’s reading psychology, he exerted more “showing” instead of “talking”. Inscenery description, Lu Yao succeeded Liu Qing’s “Undivided” description technique, creating adescriptive language that had more delicate and more poetic sense of mental pictures andatmosphere.In recent years, employing rhetoric theory to novel study is a new perspective of novelresearch. This paper will take Liu Qing’s History of Entrepreneurship and Lu Yao’s OrdinaryWorld as study object to find the inheritance and improvement in rhetoric experience of Lu Yaocompared with Liu Qing, through narrative language, characters language and descriptivelanguage.