First, contrast technology.
The author of this paper uses the method of contrast to restrain the south and promote the north, which embodies the concentration and characteristics of the autumn in the old capital. When it comes to autumn in the north, autumn in the south of the Yangtze River is "half-open and half-drunk", gentle and gradual, like a cup of warm water, dull, so autumn in the south is not as good as that in the north. The following is a concrete description of the original face of autumn in the old capital. Whether roaming the scenic spots or "making a bowl of strong tea and sitting in the yard", the whole place is decorated with autumn colors, and there is really no place without autumn. How does South China compare? At this point, the "clear" and "quiet" in the autumn of the Northland can be described as "full", "transparent" and "full". So how does the author write another feature of northern autumn, "sadness"?
The author temporarily left the description of autumn scenery, and expressed such a feeling from the comparison of Chinese and foreign literati's praise and weeping for autumn: "It shows that animals with feelings and human beings with interests can always cause deep, distant, severe and desolate feelings for autumn." The public discussion finally boils down to one sentence, that is: "The thick smell of autumn in China can only be felt in the north." In contrast, the author has reached the point of perfection. The first part is general, and then it is detailed, but it is all about scenery.
From then on, he put down his pen and ink to explain horizontally. Finally, Yu Dafu used four sets of metaphors to strengthen his praise of autumn, the old capital of the northern country: "Compared with Qiu Lai, the northern country, rice wine is to white dry, porridge is to steamed bread, perch is to big crab, and yellow dog is to camel." Specifically, "yellow rice wine dried in vain" is a metaphor for the blandness of Qiu Qiu in the south and the thick and tasteless of Qiu Qiu in the north; "Porridge to steamed bread" means that Qiu Qiu in the south is thin and Qiu Qiu in the north is thick; "Bass versus big crab" means that Qiu Qiu in the south is soft and Qiu Qiu in the north is strong; "Yellow dogs are to camels" is a metaphor for the narrow autumn range in the south and the wide autumn range in the north. In this way, the characteristics of thick, thick, strong and wide autumn in the north are vividly displayed.
Second, the skills of repetition and ups and downs.
After reading Autumn in the Old Capital, I can't help feeling that this is a poetic prose or an prose poem. In fact, the author's prose is full of poetry. We read this article because we have a deep pleasure. Isn't this the skill of "poetry"? The author endowed Autumn in the Old Capital with full passion. No matter praise or pity, no matter warmth or sadness, we will always deeply feel that the author's feelings are true. An important reason for this expression effect is the use of repeated superposition and ups and downs. Although this technique of repeated chanting has a long history, it is really commendable to use it properly in modern prose. For example, ancient and modern literati rarely mentioned the abstract "feeling" of "autumn flavor", and the author mentioned it five times, plus some descriptions of "autumn flavor", which made the original abstract things become tangible objects.
Of course, the main repetition and ups and downs of this paper lie not in the specific "image", but in its melody and emotional charm. Through the repetition of "melody" and "sentiment", readers are aroused to understand and deepen their feelings about "autumn" from macro and micro perspectives. Therefore, the author adopts the method of combining narration, description, discussion and lyricism to perfectly unify "things", "I", "subject" and "guest" to the extreme of "artistic conception", and complete the thoughts the author wants to convey through the reader's aesthetic experience.
Third, parallelism.
In the article Autumn in the Old Capital, Yu Dafu skillfully used parallelism. It's like a horse on the reins. It's a meticulous job. Mr. Ba Jin once said: "Duff's Autumn in the Old Capital uses a lot of parallelism sentences, and its meaning is fluent. It can be said that it is a model of parallelism in modern literature. " For example:
Autumn, no matter where, is always good; However, the autumn in the north is particularly clear, quiet and sad.
(2) and autumn rain, autumn rain in the north, seems to be more strange than the south, under the taste, more decent.
Here, the author uses the parallelism sentence "Xiade" ... Friedrich Hirth ... Friedrich Hirth ",which lengthens the space between the three prefixes of" strange, delicious and more decent ",giving readers ample room for aftertaste in reading, and at the same time rendering the atmosphere, from which they exude sentimental feelings.
To sum up, Mr. Yu Dafu's Autumn in the Old Capital shows the charm of autumn in the Old Capital, just like drinking wine for a long time, which is inseparable from the application of the above artistic expression techniques.