Wang Zengqi has become a classic since the 1980s, but it has been difficult for him to be a representative of the mainstream culture. Wang Zengqi’s significance is that he was uninterested in the “depth” and ideology by that he shows a zeitgeist of tolerance in the postMao China. Furthermore, he belongs to the type of gifted author, who likes to ruminate upon life, carry out his lowtune cultural resistance with an attitude of “noresistance”, tracks down his own cultural memory in a stirring time. “Folk custom” becomes the way of his cultural resistance. Meaningfully, Wang’s works give readers a feeling of elegance; however, this elegance is revealed in his interest in and conformation to vulgarity. In this way, gifted author, folk custom, and elegance can be regarded as Wang Zengqi’s cultural attitudes; at the same time they are the different views to appreciate Wang’s works. The returning of these literary and aesthetic tastes and types in the postMao’s period indicates that a new literary era is coming.

Wang Zengqi; literary transformation; gifted author stories; folk and custom stories; elegant stories