The power of quietness If novels are like wine, then prose is like tea, and the charm can only be appreciated by tasting it.

If novels are like surging rivers, then prose is like quiet springs, with thousands of rhythms hidden in the tinkling sounds.

Zhu Ziqing’s prose is the best of tea, the clear spring in the spring, the smoke rising in the quiet night, the spirit singing softly under the mottled tree shadow, in a quiet place. time, lingering quietly in your heart.

It is true that prose does not have a wonderful plot, a distinctive character, or an unexpected ending, but it has the language of a poem, the artistic conception of a painting, the rhythm of a song, and its uniqueness. Insights, genuine emotion and explicit sarcasm. Reading such prose requires one's soul to read it. Reading such prose, not only can you roam between heaven and earth, but you can also have a dialogue with the writer's soul and learn to think.

Zhu Ziqing’s prose is not only prose, but also beautiful poems.

Just imagine, when we open the title page filled with the fragrance of books, we suddenly encounter a beautiful sentence in a piece of text: "The moon is hazy, the sky is hazy, the curtains are rolled with begonia red"; or we read "layers of leaves." In the middle, there are scattered white flowers, some blooming gracefully and some shyly holding their petals; just like individual pearls, like stars in the blue sky, and like beauties just emerging from the bath. , what kind of joy will it be? Zhu Ziqing's prose has such a characteristic. Reading prose means reading poetry, reading scenery, and reading emotions. I have studied "Spring" three times, but when I read "Looking forward, looking forward, the east wind is coming, the footsteps of spring are near", I still think of the joy of the whole spring. And whenever I see the touching description in "Back", I still shed tears.

This is the power of Zhu Ziqing, the power of quietness and the power of words. It doesn’t have to have a beautiful structure or gorgeous words, as long as there is a kind of tranquility, it can touch your heart at a certain moment.

And sometimes, prose can turn into a sharp blade and hit people's hearts directly.

After reading "White People—God's Proud Son", we can find that the quiet and simple words can also shock people. Prose can also attack the dark reality, and these articles are just like sharp blades. Aren’t the writers who write them the warriors holding the swords? It is the characteristics of these articles and the literati of that generation that the quietness can contain spirit, and the plainness can reveal the extraordinary.

Yes, there may not necessarily be powerful parallels or heroic oaths. Quietness can also exert a shocking power.

I believe that this quietness will lead more people to the sublime, as Yang Zhensheng said: "His prose has indeed opened up a smooth road for us, and this road will always lead us to our own path. From near to far, from low self-esteem to high