Deep realism is the consistent feature of Zhao Shuli's novel creation. In the 1940s, because his novels deeply explored the rural life in the Liberated Areas and truly reflected the great changes that were taking place in the Liberated Areas, he was called "the authentic singer in the Liberated Areas". After the liberation of the whole country, Zhao Shuli still engaged in creation with a rigorous realism attitude, continued to go deep into the countryside for a long time, became familiar with rural life, eliminated all kinds of interference, and insisted on proceeding from the truth of life. His works truly reproduce the achievements, problems, development and twists and turns in rural socialist revolution and construction after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and reveal Zhao Shuli's unique and profound views on rural issues in China. 1962 At the symposium on rural short story creation held in Dalian, the comrades attending the meeting unanimously praised Zhao Shuli's profound realism in his creation. Shao Quanlin said: "At this meeting, I talked a lot about Comrade Zhao Shuli. Some people think that he was underestimated two years ago and should be overthrown this time. Why praise Lao Zhao? Because what he wrote was long and arduous. Now it seems that he has seen more deeply. This is a victory for realism. " This paper correctly and pertinently points out the most important creative features of Zhao Shuli's novels after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Realistic spirit in Zhao Shuli's novels. First of all, it embodies the authenticity and profundity of life. His novels dare to face reality and truly reproduce life; At the same time, we should pay attention to going deep into life and reality, and constantly raise some common and thought-provoking social problems in rural areas, which arouse people's attention. It can be said that the life described in Zhao Shuli's works has a profound realistic foundation and can stand the test of history. The works such as "Registration" and "Begging for Rain" truly reflect the rise and fall of old and new ideas in rural areas in the early days of liberation in a cheerful style; In the early stage of the agricultural cooperative movement, Zhao Shuli's "Sanliwan" not only described the superiority of agricultural cooperatives in liberating productive forces and increasing farmers' collective wealth, but also showed that the historical trend of the cooperative movement was unstoppable, and it also reflected the arduousness of the movement realistically, and profoundly put forward that it was a long-term task to educate and transform farmers with socialist ideology. The most rare thing is that, in the late 1950s, facing the grim situation that the rural economy was destroyed, Zhao Shuli showed an artist's rare courage and sense of responsibility. From sports to selling tobacco leaves, he still insists on describing his real feelings in life, without telling lies or exaggerating his life. At the same time, some important social problems are put forward according to the actual situation in rural areas, such as advocating the spirit of hard work, criticizing capitalist forces, paying attention to the ideological style of rural grassroots cadres, caring about the growth of a new generation of farmers, and revealing the reasons that hinder their healthy growth. This makes Zhao Shuli's novels show extremely rare authenticity and profundity in similar works.

The realistic spirit of Zhao Shuli's novel creation is also outstanding. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he paid more attention to the diversity of characters and tried to shape diverse characters according to real life. Looking through Zhao Shuli's works, we can see the images of all kinds of rural grassroots cadres and farmers in rural areas of China. These figures vary in age, sex and personality. Zhao Shuli consciously overcame the problem that "writing stories about old people is easy to live, but writing stories about new people is bound to be conceptualized" and made very valuable efforts in shaping the image of advanced farmers. The activist groups with different personalities in Three Mile Bay are much more substantial than the "younger generation" activists fighting for landlords in Li Youcai Banhua. It is particularly noteworthy that the author successfully created the image of Chen, an advanced molecule among the old peasants. This artistic image sublimated from rich real life perfectly condenses the incomparable sense of glory of the working people in our country. Compared with Zhao Shuli's image of a young advanced farmer, he is plump, but amiable and lovely, not a perfect man living in the clouds. In the figure gallery created by Zhao Shuli, the most successful figures are those who are backward in the countryside with such historical burdens and those who have nicknames. Their thoughts and actions specifically proved the great significance of Mao Zedong's saying that "the serious problem lies in educating farmers" and played a mirror role in real life. The image of moth made the rural women in Qian Qian, who were bound by feudal ideas in the early days of liberation, get rid of the spiritual shackles and wake up; Vivid artistic images such as fan, confused painting, leg pain, inadequate food, and profiteer Jia Hongnian play a warning role for farmers.

It is another feature of Zhao Shuli's novel creation to explore the nationalization and popularization of literary creation, and to pay attention to making his works popular with the people of China, especially the broad masses of peasants. First of all, because the author is familiar with the countryside, the people described in the works are all authentic China farmers, especially those lovely old farmers; What is described, whether it is conflict or local customs, has the style and characteristics of rural areas in China. The theme of the performance is also a common concern of the broad masses of farmers. Secondly, it is based on the farmers' thoughts, psychology and habits in language and expression, which makes the works full of strong local flavor, and the common people not only understand it, but also love to read it.

Zhao Shuli's language is a real national language with its own distinctive features. Mao Dun once said: "If you mix fragments of your own works with others' works, careful readers can tell them apart. With what appraisal? With its unique literary language. What is unique? It is clear and meaningful, with a sense of humor. " ① Zhao Shuli's language is artistically processed on the basis of the spoken language of the masses, which not only shows the characteristics of simplicity, conciseness and vividness, but also is intriguing and expressive. Zhao Shuli's sense of humor is reflected in his witty remarks when describing people, and he is good at summarizing the character and giving him a vivid nickname. This humor adds a humorous and optimistic life atmosphere to Zhao Shuli's creation.

In the form of expression, Zhao Shuli attaches great importance to the traditional artistic skills of his nation, such as the art of telling stories, describing things, and attaching importance to inheriting those "methods worth learning, plus his own inventions and creations", thus forming his own set of writing methods. In the description of characters, the traditional painting method is adopted, and the outline of characters is outlined concisely with a few words and several characteristic actions; The plot structure pays attention to the story, and there is a set of artistic techniques to organize the story, so as to be smooth and tortuous; In the relationship between narration and scenery writing, the description of scenery is integrated into narrative stories, and scenery is written through the eyes of the characters in the works. The distinctive national language and superb traditional artistic skills make Zhao Shuli's creation present a unique style of simplicity, clarity and humor.

There are also some shortcomings in Zhao Shuli's creation. The artistic image of some works is not full enough, especially for the new generation of farmers in the socialist period. Because writers don't know them as well as the old peasants, they often lack detailed and emotional descriptions when creating images, which leads to the lack of internal artistic charm. Fan Lingzhi of Sanliwan is an obvious example. Zhao Shuli paid attention to absorbing and inheriting national traditional art and made outstanding achievements. However, it is not enough to actively absorb foreign excellent works to enrich his artistic expression, which sometimes affects the faster and greater improvement of his works' artistry to a certain extent.