What does the appearance description include?

appearance description: also called portrait description. That is, to describe the characters from their physical features (including their looks, clothes, facial expressions, body shapes, postures, etc.), so as to reveal their ideological character, express the author's love and hate, and deepen readers' impression of the characters.

the requirements of appearance description are: according to the needs, grasp the characteristics, draw vivid images, portray the personality and show the soul. You can express a person's personality through some keywords, and try not to write too old-fashioned. Be original. The key lies in: first, portrait description, according to the needs of plot development, not to write people's portraits. Some authors don't understand this truth, so his portrait description is sometimes unnecessary. When writing portraits, you can't just scratch your eyebrows and beard. Lu Xun told us to "draw eyes". "Drawing eyes" is the key to writing characters' appearance. Lu Xun is very good at "drawing eyes". He wrote about Lin Sao's eyes 14 times in "Blessing", and a change of eyes reveals the changes of the characters' psychology and personality at that time. It should be emphasized that "painting eyes" is a figurative expression, which does not mean that it is necessary to paint eyes when describing the appearance of characters.

Lu Xun's "painting eyes" means that he is good at depicting the most characteristic parts of a character's appearance in detail and accurately, while abandoning other things that have nothing to do with expressing the character and mental outlook. Lu Xun wrote Xianglinsao as "painting eyes", but he also wrote Xianglinsao's "gray hair"; Writing ah q focuses on the scars on his head, but it can show his spiritual victory better than writing eyes; When I write about the leap soil, I also write about the hand of the leap soil at the same time as my eyes: "That hand is not the red and round hand I remember, but it is thick, stupid and cracked, like pine bark." It reflects the hardships and pains of life in leap soil. Write about Kong Yiji, but not his eyes, but his "old and worn gown."

The high priority of portrait writing is to portray and show the soul. Lu Xun once aspired to draw the "living soul" of China citizens, while Leo Tolstoy wrote the soul of Maslova and outlined Maslova's inner world in prison, and revised the description of Maslova's appearance twenty times.