记叙文以写人记事为主。写人记事又离不开人物语言描写。人物语言描写应具有简洁、个性化的特点。所谓简洁,即简单明了,竭力将可有可无的字句删去,只要觉得能够将意思清楚地传给别人,就宁可什么陪衬拖带也没有。契诃夫有一句名言“简洁是天才的姐妹”。可见,简洁对语言多么重要!所谓个性化,是说人物语言要符合人物自身的性格特点,不能千人一面。在这方面,鲁迅为我们做出了典范。下面我们不妨以他的短篇小说《故乡》为例予以说明。 《故乡》中描写中年闰土的语言,前前后后算起来有五处: Narratives are mainly written people’s notes. Write a person’s note can not be separated from the character language description. Character language description should have simple and personalized features. The so-called conciseness, which is simple and straightforward, strives to delete the words that are not optional. If you feel that you can clearly convey the meaning to others, you would rather have nothing to foil. Chekhov has a famous saying “Conciseness is a genius sister.” Obviously, how concise is to language is so important! The so-called individuation means that the character language must be consistent with the character’s own personality traits. In this regard, Lu Xun has made a model for us. Here we may take the short story “Hometown” as an example. In “Hometown”, the language used to describe middle-aged clay is counted five places before and after: