What Acheng found in traditional culture is the spiritual pillar for the survival and reproduction of the troubled Chinese nation. In Acheng's view, culture is a restrictive and promoting factor that is far more "historical continuity" than class position and political consciousness in human history.
The leisurely spirit peculiar to China's traditional culture not only enriches Acheng's works with ideological background and aesthetic taste, but also dispels them in Acheng's narration. Acheng's narrative is very calm, as calm as water. Perhaps, only this kind of silence can let Acheng see clearly Wang Yisheng's "eating" of a grain of rice, his "skinny legs covered with blue veins" and things that many writers have no time to pay attention to. Acheng is considered to be the first contemporary writer to retreat from the false passion of institutional literature. Let us relive the tenderness, dilution and humiliation of traditional culture. But Acheng himself was so "calm as water" that there was almost no more important creation after the "Three Kings" and eventually faded out of the literary world.
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The novel is called "Chess King", and the author really tells a story of "Chess King" with a clever pen, which is very interesting and you can't help reading it. However, the novel is unique among the works with the life of educated youth as the theme, because the writer's purpose is not only to "convey chess by writing", but to "write people by chess"; Moreover, the story of a little person who is quite different from the cultural spirit of the "unprecedented" era shows the existence and appearance of real life and real life in the historical perspective of the distance formed in that era.
Wang Yisheng is an ordinary person living at the bottom of society. His life situation can be summarized by the word "poor". The per capita living expenses of the whole family are less than 10 yuan. In order to save his family, he even canceled school activities such as going to the park and watching movies. Either because of life circumstances or because of personality characteristics, Wang Yisheng fell in love with chess and his youth life was radiant. No poverty, no external interference or disqualification can sever the relationship between Wang Yisheng and chess, even in an unprecedented era. Here, what the author tries to illustrate through characters is not the relationship between man and chess, but an ordinary and realistic attitude towards life. When readers read that Wang Yisheng mistakenly tore up a rebel poster because of his "stupidity", which caused an uproar and was taken away by the opposing factions as the focus of "struggle", they couldn't help laughing at once. At that moment, what he contained was the rich content of the times inspired by the images in his works, and it was a mockery of the whole deformed era. The uniqueness of Acheng's aesthetic perspective lies in that when he reflected on that era, he did not indulge in it, but detached himself from the image and examined life. Therefore, from the cultural phenomena such as "rebellion", "crusade", "anti-enemy" and "big-character poster war" that can be seen everywhere at that time, we can see its absurdity with history and real life. This is a subtle manifestation of the contradiction between Wang Yisheng, an ordinary little person, and the consciousness of "dominating" the times. Under the bright background, it reveals the solid and irreversible process of history and life under the distorted cultural surface of that era. Wang Yisheng's love for chess, his modest and studious, frank and resolute chess player, shows his persistent enthusiasm for life, but as a human being, "loving life" is not empty talk, and "life" is not maintained and continued by empty spiritual slogans. Wang Yisheng's feelings and views on "eating" in his works, including the description of the state of eating, have become that if the spiritual needs of people often represent the so-called "elegance" side of people, and the material needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation are more regarded as "vulgarity", then this work has completed the image-building of a real person in the natural unity of elegance and vulgarity. However, the description of the characters in the works does not stop at the social level, but shows efforts to transcend reality, individual existence and grasp the world life as a whole. The writer's understanding of China's classical philosophy, Taoism and Zen spirit is imperceptibly permeated in the characterization. In Wang Yisheng's chess learning experience, it goes without saying that the advice of the old man who picked up rotten paper is of decisive significance. His understanding of "qi" and "potential" made Wang Yisheng's chess skills better and better, and finally he was the winner. And Wang Yisheng's life path and personality, which was not depressed and persistent in poverty, adversity and predicament, didn't have the philosophical significance of governing by doing nothing in that abnormal era? The author's description of a fierce battle on Wang Yisheng's chess field particularly highlights this feature of the author's creative thinking: Wang Yisheng "put his hands on his knees and cast a thin stump with iron bars, as if he didn't see anything, as if he didn't hear anything." ..... Eyes deep in the dark, like overlooking the universe, the vast universe. That kind of life is like gathering in a messy hair, which lingers for a long time, slowly diffuses and burns your face hot. "It is not so much a dedicated chess player as a' chess soul' melted by the spirit of national culture. It is far from being limited to a specific real life, but it has eternal significance with ancient, present, future and universal life. Chess King is not only deeply conceived, but also shows the artistic skill of integrating it into the creation of perceptual images and the performance of story plots. The author writes about the hatred of educated youth and the friendship of chess players, which makes people feel the rare understanding, sincerity and closeness between people in that abnormal era. The author describes the love between mother and child. The strokes of "Chess without Words" are gently lifted, forming a thrilling artistic force, which makes people can't help it. The details of the work list, such as "eating", are like meticulous carving, which makes people express their hearts and minds; Writing scenes, such as "A Thousand People Watching Chess", is full of style, harmonious and consistent, and it is really extraordinary to write with different characters. Coupled with concise words, humorous language, ironic tone, and the brushwork of "static" and "dynamic", the novel has a unique aesthetic exquisiteness. In a word, the works reveal and sublimate the mysterious philosophical fate and lofty cultural meditation in ordinary life. In the narrative of the story, Acheng's novels, with their simple and realistic brushwork and unique style, are touching and thought-provoking, with intention in mind, emotion in action and spirit in condensation.