Chapter 153: Poetry, Beauty
Of course, the Suzhou Writers Association also has a special body for reviewing articles submitted by members of the Writers Association, and this body also has the power to recommend articles to influential magazines.
The members of this organization are, of course, those senior writers, critics, and editors, and some of the editors work in magazines that may be supplements of magazines that have a great influence in the magic capital.
So as long as these editors see a good article, of course they will recommend it, no matter what time it is, an excellent article is always something that many magazines strive for.
After Wang Defu's "Suzhou Garden" was submitted, it was almost immediately noticed by the review body of the Writers Association, and then the members of the organization, of course, were the first to review his works.
This is Wang Defu's own fame, as well as his title of "senior writer", which brings him a huge advantage, he can almost reach the level that even if he writes a piece of, he can let people smell it, of course, if he wants people to eat this piece of happily, he is still too far behind.
The middle-aged man named "Chen Bowen" is the editor of the sub-magazine "World Travel", a well-known magazine in the literary world of the magic capital, and as a native of Suzhou, he is also a member of the Suzhou Writers Association.
Although Chen Bowen is an editor, he also has the title of "junior writer", and then again, he may have chosen to become an editor because he felt that he did not have much talent in writing.
Regardless of Chen Bowen's ability to be an editor, he has discovered many potential travelogue authors for "World Travelogue".
This time, Chen Bowen saw that the title of Wang Defu's article was "Suzhou Garden", and he felt stable, and such an article is undoubtedly very suitable for "World Travel", a magazine that basically publishes works in the genre of travelogues.
Maybe in the future, not many people will read this type of magazine, because it is better to read travelogues than to read all kinds of comments on those places on the Internet, including pictures and the like, if you have money, you just need to go to play in person, which is better than reading travelogues.
But in this era, "World Travels" is a best-selling magazine, because the transportation in this era is not developed enough, and people's living standards are not so high, tourism is a luxury for most ordinary people.
Therefore, many ordinary people choose to broaden their horizons by reading magazines like "World Travel", and complete such a thing as "travel" through books.
Wang Defu's "Suzhou Garden" is only about 2,000 words, but Chen Bowen, the editor, reads it very slowly and carefully, just because Wang Defu's works are always like this, and almost no line of content is meaningless.
As an expository essay, although it still looks brilliant and full of flowers in Wang Defu's pen, it also has the coherence and hierarchy of an expository essay, which can be said to be very rigorous and the writing ideas are very clear.
Wang Defu didn't make a fuss in the expository essay, but his strong pen power made such an expository essay have a beauty far beyond other expository essays!
That's right, maybe in the impression of most readers, expository essays are the kind of unconventional, one-size-fits-all articles, pursuing the effect of popular science, and when writing articles about science, the genre is often expository.
Compared with prose, this genre seems to naturally lack a sense of poetry and beauty, and there are many fewer opportunities for teachers to give up reading comprehension questions to play in depth.
Wang Defu's expository essay is the kind of article that has both the effect of popular science and the beauty of words, under his pen, the Suzhou garden seems to be like a beautiful picture scroll, flawless, slow and methodical presented in front of the reader, as if they are immersive!
When Chen Bowen read this article for the first time, he was purely enjoying the poetry and beauty of this article, and after reading it, he recalled it for a long time, as if he was still immersed in that artistic conception......
He only thinks that Wang Defu is worthy of being a writer who has written so many excellent prose, and his modern love poems have made this person harvest many female readers who yearn for romantic feelings, but he didn't expect such an expository essay and travelogue to be able to write such a sense of beauty!
An article like this should clearly be included in the Chinese textbook, so that the entire Chinese students can appreciate it in the Chinese language class!
When Chen Bowen read it for the second time, he finally began to pay attention to the structure of the whole article, only to find that the structure of the article can also be said to be quite rigorous!
This article summarizes the characteristics of Suzhou gardens from the perspective of visitors, that is: it is important that no matter where the visitors stand, they always have a perfect picture in front of them.
The article first explains this characteristic from the four main aspects of the layout of pavilions and pavilions, the coordination of rockeries and ponds, the contrast of flowers and trees, and the level of near and distant views, and then from the three subtle aspects of the composition of each corner, the pattern of doors and windows, and the color of the building.
In addition, Wang Defu also used a variety of explanatory methods in this "Suzhou Garden", and it seems that he really wanted to write this work as a model essay in the expository genre......
No way, Wang Defu is like this, he is very perfect in writing, and at the same time, each of his articles is also full of his strong personal style, that is, the extreme pursuit of pure text beauty, I can't wait to write that kind of artistic sense in every sentence!
This kind of style is unimaginable for commercial writers, and it may only be that Wang Defu will work so hard when creating small articles, and if he really wants to write that kind of large-length work, Wang Defu will definitely not torture himself so much.
Chen Bowen read "Suzhou Garden" five times in one breath, and then recommended this Wang Defu masterpiece to the famous magazine "World Travel" in the magic capital for the first time, and he wrote in his recommendation -
From beginning to end, Wang Defu is closely following the beauty of pictures to explain the perfection of Suzhou gardens, introducing the designer's exquisite design and the cultural connotation of Suzhou gardens. It is not only the art of architecture, not only the art of creating a beautiful and harmonious natural ecological environment, but also the crystallization of many traditional Chinese aesthetic theories and art theories......