The Style of Xu Gang’s Ecological Reportage (论徐刚生态报告文学的风格)

Xu Gang is considered as the “Environmental Literature Writer”, “Pioneer of Ecological Reportage”, and also an important witness in the development of ecological reportage. His ecological literature has a strong aesthetic value and creates poetic natural ecological picture for the reader. The aesthetic style of his ecological reportage is mainly embodied in the true beauty of the subject’s participation and the poetic expression of the narrative form. For the structure of his reportage, Xu Gang uses a new and unique structural framework with a moderate historical description; or the language, he uses a lot of scientific language, while supplemented by poetic lyric language, brings beauty to the boring ecological topics. For the narrative perspective and narrative mode, he uses the grand narrative method, which is not only free and open in narrative structure, but also full of the narrative vision of globalization, the profound ideological connotation and cross-genre writing method. In the past, ecological reportage writers emphasized on the morality and their dissatisfaction with the human towards environment, therefore, few scholars pay attention to the artistic characteristics of ecological reportage. As Xu Gang’s reportages have artistic skills, this article focuses on how he connects the relationship between human and nature from the aesthetic dimension and artistic skills.