The Exploration Of Perface And Postscript In Zhu Ziqing’s Works

The preface and postscript, an important style of the literary, is an integral part of Zhu Ziqing’s article.According to The Reviews on the Prefaces and Postscripts of Zhu Ziqing, it takes up a small percentage inhis works and the total number of the style is only39. As a kind of literary style, it has to become moremature and perfect after two thousand years of development. Through reading preface and postscript, wecan know about some important things on the works, such as the writing background, origin and the statusof the process, relevant content, version and so on. The preface and postscript is a bridge leading to thewriters and their works. However, the role of preface and postscript is not limited to the work of readingguidance; it also makes some deep criticisms on the works, so to speak, by reading preface and postscript,the reader can have a more profound understanding. Though the number of it is very little, prefaces andpostscripts of Zhu Ziqing are also brilliant pages in the history of China’s modern preface and postscripthistory. Just like other literary works, preface and postscript, an important part of Zhu Ziqing’s articles, isthe reflection which is direct or indirect of his life experience, the course and footstep of his life, animportant material for us to research the writer and his works. With the rapid development of our society,more and more readers have formed a good habit of reading the preface and postscript firstly before readingthe whole works. This makes preface and postscript more important for some readers. However, theresearch of preface and postscript is relatively lagging behind, especially for Zhu Ziqing’s works, which isvery rare and unsystematic. Given the above situation, under the macro guidance of the article science, thispaper regards Zhu Ziqing’s prefaces and postscripts as the research object by closely reading the texts andcarding the clues in the articles so as to comprehensively systematically concludes the main contents andartistic features of Zhu Ziqing’s prefaces and postscripts.The article is divided into three parts: introduction, body and conclusion.The introduction part briefly illustrates the origin and function of preface and postscript,briefly,discusses the current situation of researches on Zhu Ziqing’s prefaces and postscripts, expatiates themeaning of the article.The body is divided into three chapters:The first chapter mainly states The paper introduces the content, category and composition structure ofZhu Ziqing‘s preface and postscript.Preface and postscript is rich in the content, recording the thought of the writer and track records of his or her real life. Therefore, it is not only a bridge between readers andwriters, but a key to comprehend the writers and their works for readers. Zhu Ziqing’s prefaces andpostscripts can be divided into two classes and the content mainly involves four aspects: explaining thetitle; introducing the origin and process of his works; illustrating compilation principle and version; makingcomments on works.On composition structure, this paper mainly introduce "rhyme four law" of ZhuZiqing‘s preface and postscript, namely the level, change, cohesion and unity.The second chapter mainly analysis and summarizes the artistic features of Zhu Ziqing’s prefaces andpostscripts."The style is the man", a grave reserved and serious character made Zhu Ziqinga practical and realistic man in the creation of works. His prefaces and postscripts are also grave reservedand serious and are featured in flat style and understandable language. Flat, however, is not the same asboring, because his plain language contains a deep and sincere feeling. At the same time, he also paysattention to make the prefaces and postscripts more vivid. So the prefaces and postscripts is not confined tothe reading guidance of the works, it is a simple analyze and a "deep criticism" of works.The third chapter, we will make a comparative analysis on prefaces and postscripts between ZhuZiqing and Yu Pingbo, so as to extrude Zhu Ziqing’s art characteristics and deepen the understanding ofreaders. Yu Pingbo, just as Zhu Ziqing, also looks for the truth in writing and contains profound emotionsin the prefaces and postscripts. Even so, they are different in the performance forms in the articles: ZhuZiqing is good at manifesting insipid nature, while Yu Pingbo’s style is flat with astringency.As we know,two different life attitudes and life experiences make that difference. Through the comparison, we can knowmore about the artistic features of Zhu Ziqing and timely significance and unique spirit in his prefaces andpostscripts.Epilogue part is conclusion summing up the important role of this research in the study of Zhu Ziqingand the meaning of the article.As prefaces and postscripts are organic parts of Zhu Ziqing’s articles, an in-depth research on it canexpand the research of Zhu Ziqing and make the study of Zhu Ziqing more comprehensive and abundant.At the same time, this paper also can promote the study of the preface and postscript; make the articletheory system more mature and perfect.