SHEN Cong-wen,a poor literary youth,wrote a letter of help to YU Da-fu,a senior in the literary world,which changed his life.This letter of help and a series of epistolary prose written by SHEN Cong-wen not long after all show that he explored the way of writing through letters at the beginning of literary creation.The letters give SHEN Cong-wen useful practice,ideological precipitation and aesthetic consciousness in his literary creation.He showed outstanding"Lyric"ability in letters and epistolary prose,and found a speech way with strong"lyricism"in his life.In this sens...