This is the most basic and simple aesthetic feature of prose. The "truthfulness" of prose mentioned here first refers to the truthfulness of the writer's feelings and temperament. Prose has a strong lyricism and is a kind of knowledge of human beings. Good prose, whether landscape or narrative, should inject emotion. Only under the illumination of emotion can scenery and events show its beauty. Without the infiltration of enthusiasm, prose will not have moving power. Generally speaking, the purpose of writing scenery, remembering people and keeping notes in prose is always to express the author's own feelings about life, and always to express the author's inner feelings and the charm caused by such scenery, events and people. Prose is about "I". Our reading experience tells us that good prose is always the kind that can bring us into the author's heart with its frank and natural talk. The author opens the door of mind to readers without any obstacles, allowing readers to walk in, listen to his views on society, life and nature, share his joy, feel his anguish and think with him. From here on, the most important thing in prose is a "truth".

This makes prose the most temperamental text style. In the process of frank dialogue with readers through prose, the author is actually revealing his temperament to readers, and readers can see the author's personality, hobbies, conversation, demeanor and even knowledge from prose. Prose, in particular, in addition to emotional factors, should also have the author's true and profound experience and perception of the world and life, and the truth discovery of the world and life from this experience and perception, so that readers can get profound enlightenment. This also makes the emotion in prose always rely on the obvious rationality profundity, showing a rational dependence, which should be a very significant difference between the lyric of prose and the lyric of poetry. This enables us not only to see the author's temperament from his prose, but also to see his profound understanding of society and life and the level of ideological realm. In short, the author's personality, personality, intelligence and interest will be presented in the prose, and readers can really see what kind of person the author is from the prose. In this sense, prose is indeed the most "individual" among all kinds of styles.

The truth of prose lies in the fact that its expression is not empty, which depends entirely on its true nature. It is a feature of all works of art to have a true feeling and a real understanding, including the discovery of the truth about the world and life, but it is more direct in prose. Compared with other text types, prose has a more significant difference, that is, its expression depends entirely on the true nature of the author's strength. Novels and plays express themselves through fictional characters and plots. Obviously, there are many technical factors, such as the choice of viewpoints and the application of stream of consciousness techniques. These technical factors will play a very important role in conveying the writer's aesthetic feelings and discoveries. On the other hand, poetry expresses itself in an obviously re-created language. There are also many technical factors here. Although branch, meter, rhyme, etc. They also give poetry a natural context that is divorced from the daily language rules, so that it is completely unnecessary to "speak" in a logical way. Prose has absolutely no skills that novels and poems can rely on. It must be "real". Its scenery must be true, its narrative is always true, and it has no freedom of fiction. In language, it has no skills similar to poetic language, and has nothing to say. It can only follow general language rules to express its true feelings and thoughts and say what it should say. Here, "the amount of emotion cannot be concealed from prose." Moreover, the author's "quality of real feelings and thinking directly determines the quality of prose itself". (Wang Anyi: "Emotional Life-I Look at Prose", "Wandering Language", p. 453) This makes prose a real art and cannot be faked.

Second, the "beauty" of prose.

Prose is "beautiful writing" and a kind of knowledge of human beings. A good essay can always bring us into a world full of poetry and painting, or full of fun, so that we can be impressed by the author's insights and enjoy the beauty and beauty with a long lasting charm just like tasting old wine. Of course, poetry is also beautiful, and novels and drama literature are also beautiful, but prose, because of its natural attributes, gives people a kind of beauty like listening to nature, which is probably a very important reason why people always call prose "beautiful prose" instead of "beautiful poem", "beautiful novel" and "beautiful drama".

The beauty of prose first refers to its emotional beauty, interesting beauty and verve beauty. In a more popular way, it is the elegance of prose. Ancient literature attached great importance to the word "fun". In the final analysis, this word means that no matter how you write the scenery, how you narrate, how you chant things and how you argue, you should see rich emotions and charm, have the inside story and everything, integrate your heart with nature, and see people's interesting life and inspiration. As we said before, the scenery in prose is a real scene, the narrative is a real story, the argument is truth, and most things are physical objects. However, describing the scenery and discussing things must be interesting. Specifically, the scenery of prose is interesting, the narrative is interesting, and the theory and object are full of rationality and material interest. For example, Su Shi's Night Tour in Chengtian Temple has only more than 80 words, among which "the courtyard is as empty as water, and the water is full of bamboo and cypress shadows", and a few strokes point out a clear and ethereal poetic realm. Moreover, the landscape notes are integrated into one, writing a school of leisure, leisure and leisure. Another example is Qian Zhongshu's Eat: "Eating is sometimes like getting married. Nominally, the most important thing is often accessories. Just like a young lady begging a rich man, the purpose is not a woman. This decline in sovereignty contains a somewhat immature outlook on life. " This is reasoning, but it's interesting and interesting to read. Prose writing about scenery is by no means a "specimen" of "natural history" of scenery and things, and its argumentation and reasoning are by no means a sermon. Full of emotion, vivid and inspirational, it is pleasing to the eye, and under the influence of its elegant "interest", it makes people get the edification of interest and temperament.

The beauty of prose also refers to the beauty of words. The language of prose is a natural language, and one of its important features is conciseness, naturalness, fluency and cleanness. Whether painting landscapes, narratives or writing with a pen, almost all of them are "sketching". However, the language of prose has been infused with emotion and tempered by freehand brushwork, and it is also a very kung fu-oriented writing. A writer with excellent language skills can always give ordinary words an unusual charm and emotional appeal, so that they can paint landscapes and see feelings, be proud of things, be interesting in narration and fascinate people, but be simple but not clumsy, be plain and beautiful, be smart and escape, and be fragrant. Good prose language always contains rich connotations and elegant tastes in seemingly ordinary places, showing a refined and refined taste.

Third, the prose is "scattered".

The third feature of prose is "prose", or rather "freedom". From the perspective of direct feeling, the prose's "scattered" is mainly reflected in the infinite scope of material selection and the lack of discipline in expression. From the perspective of material selection, everything from the social universe, the sun, the moon and the stars, to sandy vegetation, flowers, birds, insects and fish, mountains and rivers, geography and history, and humanities can enter prose, and truly "look at the present and the past in an instant, and caress the world in an instant". (Lu Ji: Zhang's Note, published by Beijing Publishing House 1984, pp. 22 and 25) From the formal point of view, it is the most eclectic style, which conforms to the trend of "convincing". Prose has no restrictions such as poetic style, rhythm and prosody. There are no structural restrictions such as novels and drama literature. Narrative reasoning, scenery writing, and lyricism are interspersed at will, and they are freely released, like a unconstrained style and a casual "walk", showing a kind of freedom without "law" and rules, so that some people simply call it "flowing"

In particular, the prose "scattered" lies not only in its infinite selection of materials, but also in its flexibility and freedom of expression. As we all know, prose is scattered at this level, and "gathering form and gathering spirit" has become a very popular idiom for people to summarize the characteristics of prose. This certainly conforms to the face of prose. However, from the writer's subject, the "dispersion" of prose is "freedom", which is more reflected in the freedom of the writer's unrestrained mind. Qian Gurong, a literary theorist, advocates defining prose as "prose", that is, a writer can "keep his authenticity" in a free state of mind; "At any time, I can be rational, be an official and remember the people. Writing an article can directly express your feelings, without affectation or posturing. " This is indeed a very enlightening opinion. Prose is embodied in the form of free and flexible "prose", which actually comes from the writer's maverick and unconstrained expression. If a writer doesn't have free thoughts and looks around when he speaks, of course, there will be no so-called freedom of material selection and writing. From this perspective, the prose of "San" is actually a form of expression of its "truth", and the freedom and flexibility of prose form is also a wonderful footnote of the writer's spiritual freedom.

Above, we summarized the aesthetic characteristics of prose from three aspects. From the perspective of text appreciation or interpretation, it is precisely because of the "truth", "beauty" and "freedom" of prose that the reading of prose becomes a "casual" and sincere way of communication between readers and authors. Li Guangtian, an essayist, once compared prose writing to a person who walks at will in On Prose. "After I left, I went home." In fact, reading prose is like walking. There is no limit to the formation of law. It is enough to read a frank feeling, feel a real life, enjoy a beautiful scenery and get a taste from it.

"Form is scattered but spirit is not scattered" is the experience of many prose writers. Prose must be "scattered" and "rich", that is to say, on the surface, in form, it is like the wind, informal and seemingly rambling, writing is intermittent, sometimes sketching, sometimes flashbacks, sometimes feelings are generated, and sometimes Kan Kan talks about astronomy and geography as well as ethical feelings. This paragraph is written in one place and that paragraph is written in one place. But its "spirit" is persistent and consistent, which shows the author's certain thoughts and feelings. "God receives" and "not miscellaneous" mean that the article always closely revolves around a center and runs through a red line, so that the structure is compact, the levels are clear, the details are appropriate and the main points are prominent. For example, Qin Mu's prose "Lyrics on the Country Altar" is both "scattered" and "extensive". However, although it is all-encompassing, it always revolves around the theme of "praising and praising the working people who raised our land and created our great national cultural history". So in form, prose is expensive, but in conception and organization, prose is taboo. The characteristic of prose writing is dialectical unity, which is different from other styles.