On Narrative Art of Qingzhen Ci

The narrative art of Qingzhen Ci is mainly through the means of imagination, story citation and leaving space.
Firstly, the application of imagination can lead to the skip of time and space of a story and repeated conversion of the focused subjects without chaos and can give people a third dimension feeling. Secondly, the story citation has shaped the Qingzhen Ci’s magnificence and elegance and its potential narration can inspire readers’ imagination, which can enrich the stories of some Ci works to some extent. Qingzhen was adept in using context and took the stories as his own. This achieved the unity between history and reality. Finally, either in short lyric or Ci in slow rhythm, Qingzhen could arouse readers’ imagination through leaving space, which widened the stories’ time, space and emotional connotation and made the Ci works more elegant to some degree.