高考英语外刊时事命题阅读理解：汪曾祺：讲述传统文化中的民间品格 Commemorating the 100th birthday of famous writer Wang Zengqi.docxVIP

Commemoratingthe100thbirthdayoffamouswriterWangZengqi

汪曾祺：讲述传统文化中的民间品格

“Ithinkfictionisaformofreminiscence(回忆),”famouswriterWangZengqioncesaid.NowacenturyafterWang’sbirthonMarch5,1920,thewritingcommunitycommemorates(纪念)theinfluentialwriter’s100thbirthdaythroughonlineevents.

ThePeople’sLiteraturePublishingHouse,oneofthetoppublishingcompaniesinChina,invitedWang’ssonaswellasotherfamouswriterstocelebrateWang’slifeandworkthroughanonlinelivestream.

WangZengqiisfamousforhisrealisticstorieswritteninasimpleanddirectstyle.Hepreferredtheshortstoryformsincelifeconsistsofepisodes(片段)andavoidedfull-lengthnovelsandtheirunnaturalandunrealisticnature,accordingtoCharmingBeijing.

WangwasborninJiangsuprovinceandeducatedattheSouthwestAssociatedUniversity.Hebecameasecondaryschoolteacheraftergraduation,andlaterbecamealiteraryeditorandPekingOperaplaywright(剧作家).

TheLoveStoryofaYoungMonk(《受戒》)andATaleofBigNur(《大淖记事》)aretwoofhismostfamousstories,bothofwhichwonliteraryawards.

Wangwroteactivelyduringthelate1970sandearly1980s,atimewhen“ScarLiterature”,agenre(类型)portrayingthesufferingofintellectuals(知识分子)duringthe“culturalrevolution”,wasquitepopular.?However,Wangresistedthistrendandinsteadwrotestoriesaboutthepowerofloveandovercomingdifficulties.

“Whomadeuparulethatitisnotpossibletowriteabouttheoldsociety?”Wangrecalledthinkingtohimselfafterthe“culturalrevolution”,accordingtoCarolynFitzgerald,writerofImaginarySitesofMemory:WangZengqiandPost-MaoReconstructionsoftheNativeLand.“Wastheoldsocietyjustabouttragedyandsuffering,ordidn’titalsocontainsomejoythatcouldaddtopeople’slivestoday?”

WangwasalsoanessayistandadmirerofChinesecuisine(中国菜),whichwasoftenthesubjectofhisessays.Hewasalsoatalented