Who can explain the writing method of "white drawing"?

This technique was called "white painting" in ancient times. Because it focuses on the shape of the God, do not emphasize the likeness of the God, so it is also called "writing". Later generations introduced this method into writing, called "white drawing", also known as "intentional pen".

Featured by: no or little use of simple and simple words, seize the main features of things, a few strokes, sketching out the image of things. For example, Lu Xun's three descriptions of Xianglin's wife's appearance in Blessing all use the technique of white description.

White depiction of people, objects and scenery shows several main features of this technique:

(a) It does not write about the background, but only highlights the main body. Excellent Chinese classical novels and classical operas are characterized by this feature: they do not focus on writing the background, but concentrate on describing the characters. Through the portraits or short dialogues of the characters, the character's personality is highlighted. For example, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the portrait of Zhao Zilong is sketched: "Suddenly, a young general came out from the left side of the grassy slope, flew his horse and stood up his spear, and went straight for Wen Chou. Gongsun Zan stepped on the slope, look at the young man: born eight feet long, thick eyebrows and big eyes, broad face and heavy cheeks, imposing, and Wen Chou fought fifty to sixty combats, the victory and defeat are not yet divided." Only with "body length eight feet ......" only twelve words, will Zhao Zilong this "imposing" handsome and courageous young general's demeanor came to the fore.

(2) It does not seek to be detailed, but only seeks to convey the spirit. Because of the white outline without other modifications of the description of the annoyance, so the author can concentrate on describing the characteristics of the characters, often with a few words, a few actions, can be the finishing touch to reveal the spiritual world of the characters, to receive less than more, to "shape" to "God", The artistic effect of both form and spirit. Zhu Ziqing's prose is very good at using white description techniques to outline characters, such as his "paddles and lights in the shadow of the Qinhuai River" on the courtesan boat fellows image sketches: "At that time, a fellow across the boat, taking the spread of the song folding, close to the stuffed into my hands, said, 'point out a few out of it! ...... I was really embarrassed! I also pretended to be generous, glancing at the courtesans, but in the end it was not possible! I barely turned the songbook over, but I couldn't read a few words, so I hurriedly handed it back to the fellow, saying shyly, 'No, we ...... don't want it.' He then stuffed to Ping Bo. Ping Bo turned his head, shook his hand and said, 'Don't! The man is still tired not to go. Ping Bo turned back his face again and shook his head no, 'Don't,' so the man heaved to me. I was embarrassed and refused him again. Only then did he go away with something like disdain." The author, through the description of the few actions, looks and language of this fellow who came hard to solicit business, highlighted his profession and character traits, although not much ink, but quite evocative.

(3) It is not ostentatious and seeks simplicity. The reason why excellent literary works are touching lies in the author's expression of real feelings; the more genuine feelings, the more shocking the reader's mind. Li Qingzhao of the Song Dynasty was a lyricist known for her white descriptions. In her lyrics, she expresses her feelings frankly and delicately, and her language is simple and fluent, with no artifice and natural beauty. Her masterpiece "slow sound", at the beginning we even use fourteen superimposed words: "searching, cold and quiet, miserable and sad", this superimposed words is the most artificial place, but the author used just right, fourteen words set up by the sad and mournful atmosphere, and its in the country's bankruptcy and the death of his husband died of the sadness of the state of mind of loneliness and sorrow It matches extremely well, so it has been appreciated by the commentators of all times. Write down the wind to send the sound of geese, adding the melancholy of her homesickness, but also reveals her feelings of flowers will be thankful, and finally write that she sits alone, bored, extremely distressed. The author of the "wutong more and rain, to dusk, points accounted for drops" of this difficult moment of the mood portrayal, but also all with the technique of white description. The author's book, which is written in a straightforward manner, is true to his feelings, as if he were seeing the heart of the matter.

White drawing techniques to use good, need to pay attention to three points:

(a) to deal with the relationship with the narrative. Narrative, is another way of expression alongside the description. Narrative, in addition to generalized narrative, there are specific narratives. Specific narrative is a specific account, although the writing style is sloppy, but with the simple simplicity of the white drawings similar. If the use of narrative techniques to express a dynamic, style, concise and evocative, to obtain a clear image of the depiction effect, it becomes a white drawing. Therefore, it can be said that white description is the use of narrative description.

(ii) to focus. White description does not need to be carved and layers of rendering, and do not need to be curved or accompanied, but to highlight the characteristics and mood of the object of description.

(3) The language used should be frugal, generalized and evocative. White description of the adjectives and complex modifiers, but must be accurate, concise language for simple, simple description, to achieve both frugal, but also the spirit. Special attention must be paid to the folk with "oil" and "eight-study" cavity, because the root of the shallow "oil" and "eight-study" is not the same as white description. "is incompatible with the white description.