What are the characteristics of Yu's prose?

Yu Qiuyu (1946~), with the unique spiritual bearing and aesthetic demeanor of cultural prose, constitutes a landscape in the contemporary Chinese literary world and even in the field of contemporary Chinese culture. It has been jokingly called: a cultural bitter journey through history.

I. Yu's prose, standing on the cultural direction of a century or even thousands of years, regaining the major issues that have plagued a number of generations, avoiding vulgar sociology and political science, and pointing directly to the depths of the national soul. His prose is based on the tone of deep affection for traditional culture and dominated by cold rationality, combing and revealing the inner vitality of traditional culture with painstaking efforts and proclaiming in an appealing form that: cultural traditions contain rational factors, and that the creative transformation of national culture and the reshaping of national cultural personality cannot be separated from the strong national cultural traditions.

Two, in the light of deep rationality, he illuminated the helplessness and sadness of the traditional literati who were mediocre by joining the civil service, illuminated the serious deviation between the official character and the literary character, and at the same time, he also sang the praises of those cultural celebrities who created rich spiritual values due to their depreciation with infinite affection. At the same time, he himself has been holding fast to his defense as a cultural person, and did a cultural journey in the way of life journey,

Three, holding the attitude of "paying tribute to the beauty", and eliminating the traditional culture with the spirit of cold rationality.