Looking at Snow in the Lake Pavilion is an essay by Zhang Dai, a writer in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. This paper describes the author's own experience of watching the snow in the middle of the lake, and describes the quiet and far-reaching white snow scene he saw, which reflects the author's yearning for the motherland, and also reflects the author's quality of not being in cahoots with the secular world and not drifting with the tide. He is far away from the secular world and enjoys himself, and has placed his sigh on his thin life.
Brief introduction of the author
Zhang Dai (1597101October 5-1689? ), Aweicheng, also known as Shigong, was named, Tao An Old Man, Diean Old Man, Gujian Old Man, Gujian Old Man, Gujian Old Man and Gujian Diean Old Man. In his later years, he was a layman. His ancestral home was Yin Shan, Zhejiang (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and Mianzhu, Sichuan (hence the name "Shu people"). He was a historian and writer in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Zhang Dai was born in an official family. Suffering from phlegm disease in his early years, he lived in his grandfather Tao Dashun's house to recuperate. Because of his intelligence and kindness, he was called "Jiang Yan today" by his uncle Tao Chongdao, and proposed that "painting with poetry is not good; Taking poetry as poetry is not good.
During the early years of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, he wandered freely and wrote many poems. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), he took part in the provincial examination, but failed to become an official because of incompetence. After the death of Ming Chengzu, he lived in seclusion in Siming Mountain to avoid the mutiny. He persisted in poverty and devoted himself to writing, including "Tao Anmeng" and "Shishi Shu".
Kangxi four years (1665), wrote an epitaph for himself, the year of birth and death; He died in the 28th year of Kangxi (1689) at the age of 93 and was buried in Yinshan.