Abstract
　　
　　“The love for prose” was a great phenomenon in the literary circle in the 1990s and 2000s. In this period there emerged many kinds of prose and the invention of prose. Li Cunbao is one of the representatives of this trend.
　　The way Li Cunbao goes through is unique. He is a writer belonging to the army. In 1982 he became famous around China because of his novel The Wreath at the Foot of High Hills(Gao Shan Xia De Hua Huan). When novels were still considered as the symbol of spirit in the hearts of readers, he tried his best to write novels and won great honor. When reportage was more welcome among the readers, he wrote reportage ever happened in Yimeng area. Recently when all kinds of prose appeared in the literary world, he followed suit and began to write prose which has his own style. So he always keeps up with the times. In his prime time he changed his way, destroyed the former self and formed his new style. By doing this he went through his writing crisis and enlarged his field – from comparatively narrow politicalized writing to cultural writing. The strategic transformation showed the purity and sharpness of his mind and the versatility of his intelligence. He grasped the essence of the literature and met the challenges and at last he was very successful. The thesis mainly analyses LiCunbao’s prose from three aspects: the theme of greenness , the psychological state of the writer and his exploration of new styles. Based on these ,we discuss the contribution of his “cultural prose” to the development of contemporary prose.
　　While discussing the themes of his cultural prose we can see his works are mainly based on the greenness. So his prose can also be called “Green Prose”. The trend and movement of caring greenness are internationally accepted in the 1990s and they will also become the hot issue of politics, culture and society in the 21st century. With his enthusiasm, his sense, his strong contemporary consciousness and his high learning Li Cunbao puts the mankind and the earth in his mind and shows his deep concern for natural environment, social environment, cultural environment and human environment from the point of view of culture and human bionomics. He criticizes the false deeds and pursues his way of saving the people by themselves, developing the society continuously and making people living an everlasting happy life. Such is his style. He loves the nature from the bottom of his heart, and he feels angry and indignant at the destruction and atrocity done to the nature. His thought can always goes beyond the limit of time and place. He thinks wisely about the future of human beings and calls for the consciousness of human beings as a whole and the harmony and co-existence of mankind and nature. With a strong sense of social responsibility and historical responsibility Li Cunbao observes and criticizes the social environment in his whole literary life. In his opinion “all the history is contemporary”, and “the present is history”. With this in his mind he thinks about the significance and responsibility of the past, present and future and satirizes the ugly phenomena ruthlessly. His prose which comes from the national culture gives a deep reflection of the culture with a strong sense of modernity and criticism. Readers may feel the thought and culture in his prose. For he loves the people, he shows his deep concerns about the psychological world and humanity universe of human beings. He probes the secrets of them and advocates nobility and beauty. He worries about the biological imbalance, disintegration and even corruption of the humanity. His prose about the greenness is surely eye-catching, which also gives enlightenment of many dimensions to the prose writers and literary world.
　　Thinking about the writing ideas, the sympathy for the disadvantaged and the masculineness formed in the army are the important parts of his temperament. Influenced by the traditional Confucian culture, he meets the needs of the people and the times and becomes one of the writers who hold the flag of the times. His sympathetic character is embodies in two aspects: the carefulness in pursuing the truth and the concern for the common people. The love for the people is the main feature of his prose. He was vigorous, powerful, solemn and stirring in essence and his prose is gorgeous with the beauty of power like the ringing bell giving loud sounds to warn others. His style is of great significance in changing the womanly tone of the prose circle.
　　Li Cunbao is sensitive to the styles and also explores many aspects of the prose style. He makes full use of his advantages to write prose which refers to the writing style of novels, poetry, thesis, reportage and dramas and merges the expressing ways of narration, argument, description, emotion and exposition, etc. He is a master of manifesting different styles and merging them together. He loves creating the greatness of the prose and takes the happiness and sadness of common people as his own to resist the trivialism, ordinariness and sensuality of the popular articles. He persists in carefully selecting the “word”, “sentence” and “meaning”. His language is vivid, lively and special with strong emotions of love and hatred. His prose is full of figures of speeches (such as parallelism, personification), transformation of different word classes and changes of different sentence patterns (like the mixture of traditional and modern Chinese and the use of short and long sentences), which has good effects of rhythm and power and is named “the Special Vigor of Li Cunbao”. Belonging to the traditional Chinese style his prose has high aesthetic value.
　　Li Cunbao earns his fame as one of the key contemporary prose writers with his exploring of the themes and styles of the prose, the deep reflection and high aesthetic value of his works.
　　Key words：Li Cunbao ; “Cultural prose”; preference for the greenness
　　Category number:I206.7