Yu Guangzhong's achievements in language art

Yu Guangzhong's literary language is complex and changeable, and he strives to forge an Dan in the "China writing furnace". There is such a passage in the postscript of his prose collection "Happy Travel", which we can have a glimpse of. "In" Happy Travel ","Ghost Rain "and other works, I really want to make a writing furnace that is Dan Yu China. In this kind of works, I try to compress, flatten, lengthen, sharpen China's words, tear them apart, fold them and then fold them, so as to test their speed, density and elasticity. My ideal is to symphonize China's words into big bands with different syntax, and the writer's pen should be like a baton of a symphony. Just look at how the prose of writers such as Lin Yutang is still in monotonous and rigid syntax. Modern essayists in China should suddenly realize that prose should have been revolutionized long ago. " From the perspective of poetic art, Yu Guangzhong is an "artistic polygamist". His works are extremely inconsistent in style. Generally speaking, his poetic style varies from subject to subject. Poems expressing will and ideals are generally magnificent and powerful, while works describing homesickness and love are generally delicate and soft. He has written more than ten kinds of poems, such as Elegy of Zhou Zi, Blue Feather, Paradise Night Market, Stalactites, Halloween, Lotus Festival, Wuling Teenagers, Beating Music, Cold War Years, White Jade Bitter Melon and Sirius. One of the most famous is homesickness.

Metaphorical beauty

Yu Guangzhong is good at honing verbs. He can describe the dynamic image of things with dynamic aesthetic language, thus showing the dynamic beauty of things.

Beauty of density and beauty of elasticity

Density beauty refers to trying to contain possible meanings in limited words, thus producing rich and diverse aesthetic feelings. Elastic beauty refers to the flexibility and diversity of language, which forms the artistic beauty of words.

Musical beauty

Liu Shahe discusses the musicality of Yu Guangzhong's poems in One Hundred Poems by Yu Guangzhong. Taking Floating Water as a Gift for King Solomon II as an example, it is said that the rhyme of this poem is "shallow, marginal, flat, western and annual", which sounds very harmonious; Among them, two words with different rhymes are put: laugh and waist, which cause change and rhyme alternately. China's classical poems often turn to rhyme, all of which are rhyme B, rhyme B to rhyme C, rhyme C to rhyme D ... This is not the case in Yu Guangzhong's poems. He updated the traditional way of using rhyme, often a rhyme is preceded by a rhyme b, b rhyme is preceded by a rhyme c, and c rhyme is preceded by a rhyme d.