On Wang Zengqi's Novels and the Paintings by Chinese Scholars

There is a close relationship between Wang Zengqi’s novels and the paintings by Chinese scholars.The latter exerts an incalculable influence on Wang Zengqi’s novels.Wang Zengqi is influenced by the gentleness and kindiness of confucius and the simpleness but broad-mindedness of Taoism.The qualities of his novels are close to the paintings by Chinese scholars,especially the panintings by he scholars in Song dynasty.His novels combine the taste of Chinese painting and the poetic characteristcs of image,and create a particularly simple and refined artistic ambience.Wang Zengqi’s novels can be defined as the novels of picturesque atmosphere.