This is a few words from a landscape prose "The Green Pavilion" written by Song Jinglian, a great writer in the early Ming Dynasty. As a masterpiece of Song Jinglian's landscape painting, this article is not a special landscape painting, but a metaphor for the rise and fall of the country by describing the rise and fall of a garden, which places his deep expectations on the newly established Ming regime.
Song Lian, as an outstanding civil servant in the early Ming Dynasty, wrote in a leisurely manner and spoke with great style. Although the main content of this "Qing Ting Ji" is not to describe the scenery, the "66 words" in it make this article a masterpiece.
These 656 words describe the scenery outside Huancui Pavilion just after the heavy rain stopped, which has always been appreciated by people. In the morning, after a heavy rain, the bamboo forest became greener. Sunlight shines in the air through bamboo leaves covered with rain beads, forming a world inlaid with blue glass. The light is floating on the rain beads, glittering and translucent and beautiful, as if to pounce on people.
In just 66 words, it describes a blue-green world, which is beautiful, fresh and lifelike. It is really refreshing.
This article comes from Zhang Dai, a famous essayist in Ming Dynasty, Looking at the Lake and Pavilion Snow. Zhang Dai, the word Zongzi, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His prose has a wide range of topics, including teahouses, brothels, fighting cocks and running dogs, craft paintings, local customs, cultural relics and historical sites, scenic figures and so on.
This book "Looking at the Lake Pavilion Snow" is the representative work of Zhang Dai, with less than 200 words. Known as the "most beautiful article" describing the West Lake in ancient and modern times. He is the most famous prose master after the two schools of "Public Security" and "Jingling". He is a master of essays in the late Ming Dynasty, with the freshness and freedom of public security and the coldness of Jingling.
This article describes the author's journey to the West Lake to see the snow alone after the heavy snow, and depicts a quiet, far-reaching, white and vast snow scene. After the heavy snow, it was all white, and the author only used "1 1 word" to describe the world after the snow, which was not refined.
In terms of words, the author is particularly good at using "quantifiers": one mark, one point, one mustard and three grains. In a few simple words, I wrote down the silence on the West Lake after the snow: at this time, it seems that he is the only one left in the West Lake, leaving only a dam and its long shadow, a pavilion and a moored boat. From a distance, the people on the boat are like two or three small black spots against the white snow. What a vivid and refined pen of genius!
Prose, as an important representative of literary form, is not as straightforward, easy to remember and easy to spread as poetry and songs, but it can be long or short, with diverse themes, eloquent as a river or short as a mountain stream.
These landscape essays in Ming Dynasty are outstanding representatives among them. Among them, those beautiful sentences describing the scenery are even more ingenious and amazing in the article!
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