On The Construction Of Zhou Zuoren's Prose Styl

Zhou Zuoren is an important figure in modern prose.He devoted his whole life to the creation and development of modern prose and made important contributions to the formation and development of Chinese modern prose.Studying Zhou Zuoren’s stylistic construction of modern prose can not only let us understand the formation of his prose style,but also see the process and direction of the development of modern Chinese prose.The research on the construction of Zhou Zuoren’s modern prose style not only involves the use of concepts of "article","thesis" and "essay",but also contains his "amorphous prose view".By reinterpreting the concept of "article",Zhou Zuoren consciously clarified the erudition Chinese and non-literary parts of traditional Chinese texts,providing conditions for the emergence of modern literature and modern prose.In the process of prose construction,he gave the meaning of "thesis" modern prose,but this meaning of "thesis" was not widely recognized,and "prose" eventually became a stylistic name in the modern literary sense.Zhou Zuoren also referred to works in anthologies such as Art and Life as "thesis" to express the difference between them and other prose styles.The concept of "social comment" is the embodiment of Zhou Zuoren’s in-depth understanding of modern prose,and his "social comment" has two meanings,one refers to "social comment" as a prose genre,which we can also call "satirical essay",and the other meaning refers to "miscellaneous texts".The concept of "social comment" in these two meanings indicates the change and development of Zhou Zuoren’s understanding of modern prose style.In the 1930 s and 1940 s,Zhou Zuoren especially liked to use the concept of "social comment",which mostly referred to the meaning of "miscellaneous texts",and his "miscellaneous texts" could not only accommodate different ideas such as "rogue ghosts" and "gentleman ghosts",but also contain the prose styles such as miscellaneous feelings and miscellaneous notes written by him,which reflected his broad prose style.Zhou Zuoren put forward the concept of "leisurely prose" in his article Beautiful Prose published in 1921.Although "leisurely prose" did not become an independent prose style,nor did it replace the concept of "prose",it became a general term for Zhou Zuoren’s ideal prose style.Among them,"short essay"," informal essay" and "note" are all "leisurely prose" in line with Zhou Zuoren’s aesthetic ideals,although each with different names.The introduction of the concept of "leisurely prose" has triggered a discussion in the literary circles on literary prose.In the process of discussion,concepts of"short essay" and "informal essay" are mentioned more frequently than "leisurely prose".For the concept of "short essay",there have been mixed evaluations in the literary circles.Scholars and Zhou Zuoren have deepened their understanding of modern literary and artistic prose in the process of discussing ""short essay",and the independent literary status of modern prose has also been widely recognized in this process.The concept of"informal essay" embodies the common influence of Chinese and foreign literary theories on modern Chinese prose.Zhou Zuoren’s construction of the "informal essay" style shows the process of "sinicization" of modern prose development."Essays on rainy days" and"essays on bitter tea" all have a unique charm of traditional art.In the 1930 s,when foreign literary theory had a great influence,and even the aesthetics of modern Chinese prose were based on Western aesthetics,Zhou Zuoren was vigilant and rational in looking at modern prose styles,and tried to find the law of modern prose development from the ancient Chinese essay system,so as to establish its own aesthetic standards and criticism system of modern Chinese prose."Notes" is another kind of "leisurely prose" found by Zhou Zuoren,which is a style developed by Zhou Zuoren after drawing nourishment from traditional notes,travelogues and miscellaneous notes.It embodies the subtle,tortuous and meaningful stylistic characteristics of traditional Chinese prose.Zhou Zuoren is a person who explores the way for modern prose.In the process of explaining the concept of prose,he constantly looks for the essential characteristics of the ideal prose style and finally obtains the answer in the "scatter" of prose,and constructs the unique stylistic characteristics of modern prose "scatter" through the two core views of "gossip" and "rational fun".He believes that modern prose is "gossip",which is often sent with feeling,similar to the daily chat between friend.The author expresses his thoughts and views in the conversation,and the prose is also completed in the free chat.In order to make the prose more literary and artistic,Zhou Zuoren used a mixture of spoken language,European discourse,ancient Chinese,the writing method of "running wild horses" and the charm of inheriting the "meaning" and "astringency" in traditional literary theory,etc.,to personalize the processing of different themes such as personnel,grass,wood,insects and fish,diaries,and reading notes.In this way,modern prose has the characteristics of "rational interest",and at the same time adds to the charm and tension of the style.This paper analyzes the construction of modern prose style by drawing horizontally and combing the research method of double-line interweaving,using the knowledge of stylistics,and combining zhou Zuoren’s text.Firstly,the combination of Zhou Zuoren’s cognition of prose and the discussion of modern prose concepts in the literary circles in the same period can be seen on the one hand,we can see the changes in the meaning and use of prose by Zhou Zuoren himself.On the other hand,we can also see the influence of the era environment and the prose views of other writers and critics on the construction of Zhou Zuoren’s prose.Secondly,the use of stylistic knowledge to study the concrete prose concept and prose style proposed by Zhou Zuoren can not only avoid entering the misunderstanding of the definition of modern prose,but also see the unique stylistic characteristics of modern prose precipitated in the history of prose and prose concepts.Zhou Zuoren deepened his understanding of the categories of modern prose style in his interpretation of concepts such as "article" and "essay",enriched the artistic expression and stylistic style of modern prose in the practice of "short essay","informal essay","note" and "preface",and finally found the unique stylistic characteristics of modern prose "scatter" in "cozy chat" and "rational interest".In the journey of Zhou Zuoren’s prose style construction,we see his efforts in the process of the production and development of modern prose,as well as his persistent exploration of ideal leisurely prose.The stylistic construction of modern Chinese prose still needs to be improved,and it is necessary to reorganize the historical concepts in the process of modern prose formation.Therefore,studying Zhou Zuoren’s understanding of modern Chinese prose is of great significance to the study of Zhou Zuoren’s prose style and the development of Chinese prose.