The first volume of the ninth-grade Chinese textbook "Looking at the Snow in the Pavilion of the Lake"
Watching the Snow in the Pavilion of the Lake
Ming Dynasty: Zhang Dai
Original text
In December of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Yu lived in the West Lake. For three days of heavy snow, the lake was filled with the sounds of people and birds. The day was fixed. I took a small boat, held my lavender clothes and had a fire, and went to the pavilion in the middle of the lake to watch the snow alone. The rime is foggy, and the sky, clouds, mountains and water are all white. The shadows on the lake are only a trace of the long dike, a small pavilion in the center of the lake, a mustard with the boat in the boat, and two or three grains of people in the boat. (Yuna's first work: Yu Na)
When they arrived at the pavilion, two people were sitting on a felt facing each other, and a boy was making wine, and the stove was boiling. Seeing Yu Daxi, he said: "How can there be more people like this in the lake?" He pulled Yu to drink with him. Yu Qiang drank three large whites and said goodbye. When asked about his surname, he was from Jinling and was visiting here. Before getting off the boat, Zhouzi murmured: "Don't say that your husband is an idiot, there are even more idiots who are as idiotic as your husband!"
Translation
In December of the fifth year of Chongzhen (AD 1632), I Live by the West Lake. It snowed heavily for many days, and the sounds of pedestrians and birds in the lake disappeared. At about eight o'clock that night, I held a small boat, wore a fur coat, and carried a stove, and went to the Huxin Pavilion alone to watch the snow. (The surface of the lake) is filled with ice flowers, the sky, clouds, mountains and water, the sky and the lake are all white. The shadows on the lake were only a trace of the long dike, an outline of the pavilion in the center of the lake, a small boat of mine, and two or three figures in the boat.
When we arrived at the pavilion in the center of the lake, we saw two people having covered the pavilion and sitting there opposite each other, and a child was heating up the wine stove, which was boiling on the stove. (They) saw me and said very happily: "I never thought there could be a person like you in the lake!" (They) took me to drink with them. I drank three large glasses of wine and said goodbye to them. (I) asked them their surnames and found out that they were from Nanjing and were living here as guests. When we got off the boat, the boatman murmured: "Don't say my husband is crazy, there are people as crazy as you!"
Theme
By writing about the center of the lake Meeting a close friend while admiring snow in the pavilion expresses the author's lonely mood and slight melancholy. It highlights the author's independent and outstanding elegant taste. It expresses the author's joy when meeting a close friend and regret when they are separated, embodies the author's longing for his homeland, and also reflects the author's quality of not collaborating with the world and not following the crowd, as well as his feelings of staying away from the world and self-admiration. sigh.