Feng Zikai's prose explores the true meaning of Buddhism in life and nature, wanders in childlike interest, eulogizes the world and human feelings in daily life, and describes it delicately and euphemistically.
Artistic features:
Feng Zikai's prose is only understood in ordinary words, and he doesn't like to decorate and whitewash. There is a simple and lively taste between the lines, which is a typical essay. His "Yuan Yuantang Essays" combines childlike innocence and Zen, which is both true and interesting.
Before the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Zikai's works turned to contact with the society and began to write disastrous reality. However, between the lines, there was still that kind of light and elegant style, and grand ideas and essence were found in nuances, such as "Meat Leg" and "Half Travel Notes of Moganshan".
As the saying goes, "Poetry and painting are interlinked", and Mr. Feng Zikai's essays and cartoons are interlinked in his creative practice. He himself once said, "If you get the theme, you should write essays in words and draw cartoons in images", thus forming the artistic conception of "painting in poetry and poetry in painting", which can also appropriately explain the artistic characteristics of Feng's creation.
Mr Yu Pingbo's comment that Feng Zikai's cartoons are "like pieces of fallen English, implying human feelings" is equally appropriate in his essays. Those words may just express some seemingly dull feelings in a seemingly dull way, but they are full of emotions.
Feng Zikai's cartoons are like poems-poems written in stone.