"Construction of Si": Restudy on Record of Portraying Dreams

He Qifang's prose collection Record of Portraying Dream gains wide praise at home and abroad and occupies an unshakable status in Chinese contemporary literature.This success can be attributed to three reasons: 1) author's concept of prose is widely accepted; 2) the creation of dream world is greatly affected by western fair tales and Chinese fables and legends; 3) its artistic expression is superb, especially the construction of Si by image creation, which caters for Chinese unique aesthetic demand for digesting the details and appreciating the twists.