On The Feeling Of Chi Zijian 's Novels

The novels of Chi Zijian present us a temperate emotion, which embody great aesthetic values. They are like elegant and blooming lotuses standing out of the fickle and complicated reality, quietly delivering pleasant and long-lasting fragrance. She has a simple and gentle style of writing and has created a special Chi-style. With her honest, tender, and serene emotion, she has demonstrated in her work the happiness and sorrow of people’s lives, the ebb and flow of history, as well as the circle of life in the nature.She has constructed stories of ordinary people, sometimes full of hope but having no other way out, sometimes warm but also bittersweet, to show us the nature of life——simple but warm-hearted. In her work, she tells about benevolence, forgives evil, and treats death philosophically, making her characters feel relieving and have a sense of belonging. Chi avoids depicting history directly; she restores and rejuvenates history by constructing stories in the context of a specific period. When it comes to the nature, she is a gentle and poetic painter, painting out an elegy of lush and vast view, vicissitudes and eternity. We can always interpret a peaceful and gentle feeling from her art work, whether it is about everyday life, tide of times or changes in the nature. Furthermore, Chi controls her strong feelings with her rationality but also maintains passion when writing, achieving a dynamic balance between ordinary lives and legends, sorrows and joys, benevolence and evil, life and death, grand and subtleness, instant and eternity.The moderate emotion of happiness and sadness endures from the texts is based on appropriate control of blended feelings. Chi uses retrospect and self-narration to deliver a sense of gracefulness and detachment through time elapse. With simple language, mild tone, and suspension, she creates variedly temporal-spatial structured chapters. By depicting in detail characters and scenes and using contrasts and deductions, the well plotted stories are quite profound in meaning; by precisely choosing images which contain rich implications, her unspoken words echo with those written ones when expressing her mind. Her tender and roundabout sentiment is injected into her narration and plotting. It is a great pleasure to read her words which can actually pull our heartstrings.Her simple, profound and moderate style is generated from her rich experience in real life. As a benevolent and tenacious person, Chi never stops pursuing the nature of aesthetics. Pure happiness and penetrative pains have nurtured her world of literature, endorsing her with detachment and tenacity. Just because she is sincere and honest in writing and living, she can explore under the surface of life, and reconcile various emotions to bring them into harmony. Effected by masters in literature, such as Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu and Kawabata Yasunari, Chi’s novels are filled with the feeling of tepidity, beauty of sadness and emotion of moderation, which flickers the calm and peaceful brilliance.What is commendable is that she successfully controls her emotions but does not restrain it. She chooses to express her happiness and sadness, tell about her fortunes and misfortunes in a mild way. In another word, she avoids overflow of her emotions. By doing so, she has successfully delivered her deep understanding of life, her sympathy and also courage in her writing.