On the Linguistic Features of Huang Guoqin's Prose Collection A Chronicle of Chaozhou
Huang Guoqin holds a deep sense of identity with Chaozhou culture.His prose collec-tion A Chronicle of Chaozhou is characterized by both a rich regional cultural flavor and a broad per-spective spanning from ancient times to the present.He attaches great importance to language use in prose writing,employing a combination of vernacular and classical Chinese to exhibit its primitive sim-plicity.Through the rational arrangement of four-character phrases,varied sentence lengths,and paral-lelism,his writing is both refreshing and musical,effectively achieving a unity of content and form.In chronicling the city,Huang Guoqin uses vivid literary language to harmonize literature and history,providing a three-dimensional narrative of Chaozhou's past and present.
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