Yao Zongwei Prose Study

Taking from his own experiences, feelings and thoughts, Yao Zongwei produces works of prose in a highly sensitive perspective to find out poetry and inspiration in daily life. Thus his prose is fluent and natural in language though common and everyday in topic, and also brims with simplicity instead of superficiality. This beauty of simplicity is not only the embodiment of his thoughts and experiences, and a palace of art constructed by his highly artistic condensation and linguistic competence as well.Yao's simple language is the result of his preference to words and phrases which are full of vitality and expressiveness, especially those in oral language that is filled with the atmosphere of life. A certain beauty of peace rests with his prose, presenting his particular taste and inner satisfaction of life. According to his point of view and state of mind, Yao describes everything past and present in various opinions. And the key reasons why his gain of peaceful mind lie in his realization of dream, and his changed consciousness of home, and the establishment of his religious belief.Yao's description of nature is not just a background of the story or some normal scenes that used to heighten the atmosphere, emotion or willfulness, but he sees everything in nature, from a artist's view, as every lively individuals with heart and soul.