Yu Qiuyu's prose works include: "Cultural Journey", "Notes on Mountain Dwelling", "Frost-Cold River", etc.
1. "Cultural Journey" is a collection of essays by contemporary writer Yu Qiuyu. First published in 1992, it is a work written by Mr. Yu Qiuyu during his lectures and inspections at home and abroad in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is his first collection of cultural essays. The book mainly consists of four parts, namely the starting point of a dream, the journey to China, the journey to the world, and the journey of life.
The book relies on landscapes and scenery to seek the soul of culture and the true meaning of life, and explore the historical destiny of Chinese culture and the personality of Chinese literati. The book won the second prize of the National Golden Key Book Award, the first prize of the Shanghai Outstanding Book Award, the Second Shanghai Literary and Art Achievement Award, and the Taiwan Best Reading Award.
2. The writing of "Notes on Mountain Residence" began in 1992 and was completed in 1994, which lasted more than two years. In order to write this book, the author resigned from his administrative position in the college and stopped working. Therefore, the past two years were very pure and he devoted himself almost wholeheartedly.
3. "The Frosty River" contains many classic works about friendship, reputation, rumors, jealousy, kindness, age, etc. The style of these works is plain and natural, and the writing is concise and smooth, which fully demonstrates the author's profound writing skills and rich life experience, as well as his in-depth thinking about social reality and real human nature.
Yu Qiuyu's main achievements:
1. Cultural prose
Yu Qiuyu pioneered the "cultural prose". His cultural prose has a great influence on Chinese culture and history. The recognition and interpretation methods provide enlightening corrections for the historical and cultural education of ordinary mainland readers, and meet the needs of overseas Chinese who want to understand Chinese culture and history.
2. Adventure achievements
From September 1999 to February 2, 2002, Yu Qiuyu traveled 40,000 kilometers with the Hong Kong Phoenix TV "Millennium Journey" cross-country team from Shenzhen He set out and passed through Greece, Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, India, and Nepal before returning to his motherland. Finally, he compiled the diary "A Sigh of a Thousand Years".
3. Achievements in calligraphy
Yu Qiuyu is not only a cultural scholar and writer, but also a writer of historical monuments and inscriptions. The contents of the inscriptions are all original to him and were written by him himself. 59 From May 25 to June 5, 2017, "Yu Qiuyu Calligraphy Exhibition" was held at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. 60 Among them, the "Famen Temple Stele", "Yandi Emperor's Stele" and "Caishiji Stele" inscribed by Yu Qiuyu have now become local cultural landscapes.