The Language Characteristics of Describing the Local Customs in Floating

Floating is one of the representative works in Jia Pingwa's early "Shangzhou Series Novels", which mainly takes the history of love and personal struggle of the golden dog as the clues, revealing the mood of the times that is restless and full of vitality in rural China during the period of transition. In this paper, we will analyze the language of the work's description of local customs in order to appreciate the unique language characteristics of the work.

The description of rural beauty in the work is undoubtedly very colorful, although it does not take up much space, but the unique beauty of the small countryside can be felt from word to word. Especially with the very elegant and even with the classical literary flavor of the language to describe the "extremely vulgar" countryside, in contemporary literature is really refreshing.

These are the most important of all, and the most important of all is that they are not just a way of saying "yes", but also a way of saying "no".

A strong classical poetic sense is a major feature of the language of flavor description. "The state river to the two forks of the town, both sides of the mountains, the mountains curved water is also curved, curved to the extreme, it nestled a not too big and not too small basin." This is the opening sentence of the work, just thirty words, but extremely rich in flavor. First of all, in general, it seems like a white line from an ancient poem, sketching out a picture surrounded by mountains and water with just a few strokes. Specifically to the text, "both sides of the mountains, the mountains and water are also curved, curved to the extreme," using two top really rhetorical device, very rhythmic, very rich in musical beauty; and the word "nest", used with a very flavorful. With such a sentence at the beginning, people will be introduced to a poetic realm of nature.

It is also quite poetic when describing the scenery under the unquiet hill: "Under the hill is a ditch, swarming with bamboo, poplar, elm, green? The green of the sycamore is deep and unholy." This line describing the green shade is also extremely poetic, especially the word "surging", which brings to life the number and color of the trees. Chung, originally used in conjunction with the rushing water, but here the author uses it in conjunction with the color "green", so that people can not only see the green, but also feel the green.

When writing about the small village of Xianyouchuan, he even used the style of our ancient idyllic poetry: "Chickens and dogs are chirping in the middle of it, and the smoke from the cooking fire is long and thin there, which is Xianyouchuan, the biggest village up and down the state river." When I read this sentence, Tao Yuanming's "Ambiguously distant people's village, according to the smoke in the marketplace. Dogs bark in deep alleys, chickens crow in mulberry trees." came into my mind. I wonder if the author has used Tao's poem? This sentence creates a kind of calm and elegant mood, extremely rich in idyllic atmosphere.

Of course, in my opinion, the book describes the beauty of the countryside in the best paragraph is undoubtedly the following two sentences: "As soon as I heard the 'watchdogs' barking, a boat came out of the river in the white wax artemisia bushes across the river. Han Wenju, lying drunk, saw a willow crooked over the bank, a petal of yellow moon hazy, willow branches of the two turtledoves seem to sleep also in the haze." These two lines together are undoubtedly an excellent landscape idyll: "a boat," "a willow," "a yellow moon," "two turtledoves "constitutes a sound and color, dynamic and static, interesting countryside evening picture; and the "horizontal", "crooked", "hazy" and other verb use The first time I saw this, I was able to get a good deal on it.

The use of original metaphors is also a major feature of the language used in the description of the countryside in the work. For example, the following sentence: "The back of the river on this side of the street, but intentionally not coherent, three five families separated by an alley, dark, will be a stone step straight down the river, day and month, the water's waves of light flashed on it, as if in a trance, such as the iron chain." The light and shadow on the stone is compared to the chain of iron rings, very image novelty, and with obvious characteristics of the water town.

In the description of the book's most beautiful woman Xiaoshui appearance, but also used a very novel metaphor: "a look up, the shore came a woman, light hand soft legs. The sun was shining on her face, and the golden dog felt that the sun in the sky no longer existed, and that the face was a disk of flesh sun, which had a nose and eyes for people to get close to. Here, we borrow the eyes of the hero, the golden dog, to see Xiaoshui, and compare the face of Xiaoshui, who walks in the sunlight, to a plate of sun, which is extremely beautiful. Usually people always like to compare the sun as a face, and here the unique intention of the opposite is impressive, and so the metaphor is also with the work of the character of Xiaoshui is very consistent with the character, she is really like a sun to the people around the warmth.

The sun is very important in the countryside, in the natural scenery of the countryside is extremely important, the following description of the sunset and the sunset in the water and the sky is compared to the sunset in the eight red circle is also very chic; "It is dusk, the sun in the river downstream of the water will fall. The junction of water and sky, a red circle on the upper side, a red circle on the lower side, linked into a dazzling eight." Artemisia alba is also a very characteristic natural beauty of Xianyouchuan, in the author's writing it has more vitality of life: "A group of Artemisia alba floral fluff floats down leisurely on the braid of the small water, red, like a small cloud shadow." The Artemisia annua fluff is compared to the sky cloud shadow, vividly showing its small and lightweight features, this metaphor is undoubtedly also very innovative.

In a word, Jia Pingwa's "Floating" describes the language of the countryside in an elegant tone, which mainly embodies the two main features of rich classical poetry and original metaphors.