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Combining with the specific description of The Chess King, analyze what are the characteristics of the language style of the work

The linguistic style of The Chess King abandons the usual linguistic logic of the 1980s and returns to the context of Song Ming novels, which is simple and elegant.

There are many places in The King of Chess that touch on or directly refer to Taoism and Zen, such as the comment of the old man who won the regional chess championship on Wang's chess skills: "Taoism and Zen in one furnace. This old man and the "old man who picks up rotten paper" who taught Wang Sheng the way of chess are very similar, he said: "To play chess, you have to create a momentum ...... This momentum you have to create, you need to do nothing and nothing is not to do. Nothing is the way, that is, the game of chess is unchangeable".

Before and after 1985, the literary world appeared "cultural roots fever". From the point of view of the novels of the root-seeking school and its theories, the root it seeks is first of all the traditional cultural and philosophical concepts, which support the three pillars of the Chinese cultural hall - Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In particular, Confucianism and Taoism are recognized and respected by some of the root works.

For example, Wang Anyi's "Xiao Baozhuang" has an unusually strong atmosphere of benevolence, righteousness and propriety; while some of A Cheng's novels are infused with the temperament of Laozhuang, of which "The King of Chess" is a masterpiece.

However, the novel is unique among the works based on the life of young intellectuals in that the writer's purpose is not only "to write about chess" but "to write about people", but also "to write about people", in a way that is related to that " unprecedented" era. In addition, the story of a small person who is not in line with the culture and spirit of that " unprecedented" era shows the existence and face of real life and true life in the historical observation of the distance formed in that era.

Expanded Information:

The main character of "The King of Chess" is a man who is a member of the "Chess" family. p>The main fascination of "The King of Chess" comes from the protagonist, Wang Zhisheng, a characterization with an independent way of life and vitality in the whirlwind of history. His entire personality projects the spirit of a long-ago culture rich in infinite vitality, which makes his own thin existence reveal an incomparable tenacity and cultural charm.

In the novel, it is written that Wang was weak by nature, and in the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution, a small person like him was like a grain of sand in the gusty wind, and in order to gain meaning and value in the destiny that he could not control himself, the only strength he could have was to come from his heart, and to find his own spiritual equilibrium and fulfillment.

The King of Chess was A Cheng's debut novel, published in Shanghai Literature in 1984. After the novel was published, Wang Meng wrote an article highly appreciating the novel, pointing out that it was "a kind of tribute to human wisdom, attention, energy and potential" in that particular era.

Baidu Encyclopedia - The King of Chess