Translation:
Going further south, you will reach a ditch between rocks. There are ancient pines and old fir trees on both sides of the rock stream. The tree is so thick that nearly ten people are surrounding it. It's several hundred feet high, with long branches touching the sky, and low hanging branches gently brushing against the pool water. It stands up like a flag, opens like a car hood, twists and stretches like a dragon or snake swimming around.
There are many bushes under the ancient pine trees, and their branches and leaves are overgrown. They are tangled and intertwined with each other, covering each other so that neither the sun nor the moon can reach the ground. The climate in midsummer is still like the cool autumn season in August and September.
The underground is paved with white stones as a passage for entry and exit. Five steps away from the north of the thatched cottage, high cliff stones are used as a rockery, small mounds and clods of earth are stuck in the hollows, and various trees, exotic flowers and grasses cover it. The green shade is dense and there are so many red fruits that I can’t even name them. It looks like this all year round.
"The Story of Bai's Thatched Cottage"
Modern Deng Shiru
Original text:
Arriving at Shijian in the south, there are ancient pines and old firs in the stream. , only around ten people, but hundreds of feet high. Xiu Ke Gaiyun, low branches brushing the pool, like a tree, like a canopy, like a dragon and snake moving. There are many shrubs of radish under the pine tree, and the leaves are woven parallel to each other, covering the sun and moon, and the light does not reach the ground. In the north, there is a layer of rock, with accumulated stones embedded in the hollow, and strange trees and grasses covering it. The green clouds are misty, the vermilion is scattered, I don't know its name, and the four seasons are the same color.
Literary Appreciation:
Deng Shiru's six-stripe seal script "The Story of Bai's Thatched Cottage" is now in Japan. Each screen is more than 180 cm long and 46 cm wide. "Bai's Thatched Cottage" is his representative work in seal script.
This book was written by Deng Shiru when he was sixty-two years old, that is, in Jiazi, the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804). It was written one year before his death. The writing style of "Bai's Thatched Cottage" is full of It is old-fashioned, but also filled with bursts of new ideas; it is both mature and solemn, yet elegant and free and easy; it pays equal attention to both merit and emotion, the movement of Qi is well-organized and steady, the posture is solemn and resolute, and the rhythm is heroic and mellow.