What does narrative style mean?

Narrative style refers to the tendency of the artistic method used by the author in the process of narration, which makes the work of literature and art present this or that characteristic.

"Narrative," also known as "narration," is a term that has existed since the earliest days of Chinese culture; in short, to narrate is to tell a story; to tell a story is to tell a story, and to tell a story is to tell a story. storytelling" is one of the core functions of the cultural activity of "narration". In the process of narration, there are differences in the angle of expression chosen by authors and the artistic methods they use, thus showing different styles of narration. For example, Yu Hua's famous novel "Alive" adopts the dual narrative styles of pessimism and optimism - in the pessimistic narrative, different characters die in the form of death, demonstrating the insignificance and powerlessness of the characters under the big era; in the optimistic narrative style, human warmth becomes the driving force for "living well". Zhang Yimou's films, from "Red Sorghum" to "Ambush on Ten Sides", have gone through the transmutation process of dramatic romantic saga, storytelling rational documentary, and visual illusory poetic, and step by step, from the traditional narrative style of Chinese cinema to the modern narrative style of the world's cinema; Zhang Yimou has gradually strengthened the position of the language of video as the narrative element in the process of change, and at the same time, completed the return of his own to the image. Zhang Yimou has gradually strengthened his position of using video language as a narrative element, and at the same time, completed his return to the essence of video. -------