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.
In the first paragraph, the time and place are briefly explained at the beginning, and then the object of description, three days of heavy snow, has a lot of scenery worth writing, and it is almost stingy to summarize and compare it with the words "all the birds in the lake are dead" Although there are few words, there is a broad space for aesthetic imagination.
The second paragraph, what happened in the pavilion, is another important plot described in this article. On the surface, this passage is plain, but in essence it conveys a wealth of inner activities. "There is no such person on the lake" expresses the surprise of both the drinker and the author. Due to the unexpected encounter, the tone of the full text has been adjusted here, and some warm colors have been blended into the cold tone.
The tone at the end of the article is followed by a paragraph, which is a continuation of warm colors. Here, the cool snow scene has receded, and the lonely mood has become slightly warmer because of the encounter in the pavilion. Zhou Zi's words are the blank expression of the author's inner feelings. When Zhou Zi speaks in a low voice, we can probably guess the expression of the lyric hero nodding and smiling.
A Brief Introduction of "Watching Snow at the Lake Pavilion"
The writer is Zhang Dai, a poet in Qing Dynasty. The original text is December of the fifth year of Chongzhen, and I live in 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. Haze, sky, clouds, mountains and water are all white from top to bottom. The shadow is on the lake, but it leaves traces on the long beach. There is a small pavilion in the middle of the lake, and a mustard takes Yu Zhou and two or three 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. Yu Daxie 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. When he got off the boat, Zhou Zi murmured, "Don't say" xianggong "is crazy. There are more people like" xianggong "who are crazy."