I. Original text
In December in Chongzhen, I lived by the West Lake. It snowed for many days, and the noise of pedestrians and birds in the lake disappeared. At about eight o'clock this evening, I took a boat, wore a fur coat and took a stove to see the snow in the middle of the lake. Ice flowers are all over the sky, the sky is bright and watery, and the sky is pure white. The shadow of the lake, only a trace of a long beach, a little outline of the lake, and my boat, two or three boat people on board.
In the pavilion in the middle of the lake, I saw two people laying blankets and a child cooking a wine stove. Seeing it, I was overjoyed and said, "There is no such person in the lake!" " Pull me together and drink with me. I tried to drink three glasses of wine and then said goodbye to them. Ask them what their surnames are. They are from Nanjing and are guests in this place. While waiting for the boat, the boatman murmured, "Stop talking about your Excellency, you idiot, and people like you are crazy!" " ! "
Second, the original translation
In December of the fifth year of Chongzhen, I lived by the West Lake. It snowed heavily for several days, and the voices of pedestrians and birds in the lake disappeared.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, I went to the pavilion in the middle of the lake to see the snow with my boat, leather coat and stove. The lake is full of ice flowers, and the sky, clouds, mountains and water are white. The shadow on the lake is only the trace of a long dike, the outline of a pavilion in the middle of the lake, and two or three figures on my boat.
On the pavilion in the middle of the lake, I saw two people sitting opposite each other with blankets. A child is cooking wine in the wine stove. When they saw me, they were very happy and said, "I didn't expect people like you in the lake!" " "They dragged me to drink together. I tried to drink three glasses of wine and then said goodbye to them. I asked their surnames and learned that they are from Nanjing and live here.
When we got off the boat, the boatman murmured, "Don't say" xianggong "is stupid, there are people as stupid as" xianggong "!"
The Creation Background and Appreciation of Snow in Hu Xin Pavilion
First, the creative background
Looking at the Snow at the Lake Pavilion is one of the memoirs of Tao 'an Dream written by Zhang Dai after the demise of the Ming Dynasty. After Ming Taizu's death, Zhang Dai lived passively in the mountainous area of Shanxi, Zhejiang Province, devoted himself to writing, and ended up in poverty. Tao An's Dream was written after he took refuge in Tunxi Mountain. In the book, he remembers the prosperity of the past and recalls the past, revealing his deep thoughts and vicissitudes of the motherland between the lines.
Second, the appreciation of works
This essay is a very representative one of Zhang Dai's essays. The full text is only 159 words, which is a masterpiece. Although the length of this article is small, the artistic conception is broad and the emotions expressed are extremely far away. From then on, we can also see the aesthetic taste of sketches.
At the beginning of the article, simply explain the time and place, and then cut into the object of the description. There are many scenes worth writing in the Water Margin, but the author did not try his best to express them like the Water Margin and Lin's Snow Mountain Temple.
It is almost stingy to use only seven words "birds are singing in the lake" to summarize the contrast. Although there are few words, there is a broad space for aesthetic imagination.