I'm very upset these days. Sitting in the yard enjoying the cool tonight, I suddenly remembered the lotus pond I walked through every day. It should look different under the light of this full moon. The moon rises gradually, and the children's laughter on the road outside the wall can no longer be heard; My wife is patting and skipping in the room, humming a sleeping song in a daze. I slipped on a big shirt and ran out the door.
Along the lotus pond, there is a winding little cinder road. This is a secluded road; Few people walk during the day, and it is lonely at night. Around the lotus pond, there are many trees and lush. On one side of the road, there are some willows and some trees with unknown names. On a moonless night, the road is gloomy and a little scary. It's fine tonight, although the moonlight is still very weak.
I was the only one on the road, walking around with my hands behind my back. This world seems to be mine; I also like to go beyond my usual self and go to another world. I love excitement and peace; Like to live in groups, like to be alone. Just like tonight, under this boundless moon, a person thinks about everything and thinks nothing, and feels like a free person. What must be done and said during the day can be ignored now. This is the beauty of being alone, and I will enjoy the boundless moonlight with lotus fragrance.
On the winding lotus pond, I look forward to the leaves of Tian Tian. The leaves are high out of the water, like an elegant dancer's skirt. Layers of leaves are dotted with some white flowers, some of which bloom gracefully and some are in bud shyly; Like a pearl, like a star in the blue sky, like a beauty who just took a bath. The breeze blew, sending wisps of fragrance, like a faint song on a tall building in the distance. At this time, the leaves and flowers also trembled slightly, like lightning, passing through the lotus pond in an instant. The leaves are close side by side, so there are clear wave marks. Below the leaves is flowing water, which is covered and can't see some colors; Leaves are more exposed to the wind.
Moonlight, like running water, falls quietly on this leaf and flower. A thin layer of blue mist floats in the lotus pond. Leaves and flowers seem to have been washed in milk; Like a dream in a sarong. Although it is a full moon, there are faint clouds in the sky, so it can't shine; But I think this is just a benefit-deep sleep is indispensable, and nap is unique. Moonlight shines through the trees, and the bushes at the height cast uneven and mottled shadows, which are as steep as ghosts; The sparse shadows of curved willows seem to be painted on lotus leaves. The moonlight in the pond is uneven; But light and shadow have a harmonious melody, such as a famous song played in the Vatican.
Around the lotus pond, there are trees far and near, and willows are the most. These trees surround a lotus pond; Only on one side of the path, there are some gaps, which seem to be reserved for moonlight. An example of the color of trees is cloudy, which at first glance looks like a cloud of smoke; But the abundance of willows can be recognized in the smoke. There are distant mountains on the treetops, just a little careless. There are still one or two lamps leaking through the cracks in the tree. What is listless is the eyes of those who are sleepy. At this time, the most lively are cicadas in the tree and frogs in the water; But the excitement is theirs. I have nothing.
I suddenly remembered the matter of picking lotus. Lotus picking is an ancient custom in the south of the Yangtze River. It seems to have a long history, but it flourished in the Six Dynasties. You can get a rough idea from this poem. Lotus pickers are teenage girls, swinging boats and singing bright songs. Needless to say, there are many lotus pickers. It was a lively season and a romantic season. Emperor Liang Yuan put it well in "Lotus Picking Fu":
So the demon is a virgin, and she wants to boat; The snipe makes a first promise and passes the feather cup; I can move, algae can hang, boats can move and sail. Erqi slim waist bundle element, Yan Gubu; After long summer, in late spring, leaves are tender and flowers are early. I'm afraid of touching the petticoats and laughing, and I'm afraid of leaning over the boat and getting together.
It can be seen that there were wandering scenes at that time. This is really interesting, but unfortunately we are not happy now.
Later, I remembered, the sentence in "Xizhou Song":
Lotus is picked in autumn in Nantang, and the lotus is over the head; With his head down, he fiddled with the lotus seeds in the water, which were as green as the lake.
If there are lotus pickers tonight, the lotus here will be considered "over the top"; You can't just see some shadows of running water. This makes me really miss Jiangnan. -thinking like this, I suddenly looked up and felt that it was my own door; Gently pushed the door in, there was no sound, and my wife had slept for a long time.
1July, 927, Beijing Tsinghua Campus.
Extended data:
Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is a masterpiece of modern lyric prose. With the delicate description of Moonlight on the Lotus Pond, the article implicitly and euphemistically expresses the author's complex thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction with reality, longing for freedom, and wanting to surpass reality, but unable to do so, leaving us with the footprints of honest intellectuals in old China wandering forward in suffering. The beauty in the bath in Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is obviously out of line. "At that time, lesbians were criticized even if they showed their navel."
In the textbook of senior one, when Zhu Ziqing wrote Moonlight on the Lotus Pond, he once called the white flowers dotted with lotus leaves "the beauty who just came out of the bath". The girl who picked the lotus leaves rowed out of the lake, but she sang colorful songs. Sang Song, "A demon girl is a virgin, but she is willing to row a boat ..."-These tiny details of "pornography" were once cut off. But now the original content has been restored in the textbook. First of all, it explains the change of the author's thought: seeking quietness instead of quietness, returning to reality and being higher than reality.
The structure of Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is round, and so are the external and internal structures. From the external structure, this work depicts a summer night trip from the author to the lotus pond and back according to spatial order. From the perspective of internal structure, emotional thoughts are never static, and they are round when they are quiet and quiet. The consistency of internal and external structure just meets the author's need to show a psychological course. He knows that as a social person, he can't get rid of the harassment of reality anyway. How can he get rid of his troubles when he is depressed? In his view, "it's best to be detached temporarily" and "happy to forget temporarily" ("Go there"), and calm or detachment can only be short-lived. So, go out and come back, get a moment of peace, and finally return to the noise. The close connection between structure and content makes Moonlight on the Lotus Pond read smoothly and naturally.
Writing background:
Moonlight on the Lotus Pond was written in July 1927. The Great Revolution failed and white terror enveloped the land of China. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek rebelled against the revolution, and China was in darkness. As a "pawn of the great era", Zhu Ziqing has been shouting and struggling, but after the April 12th coup, he moved from the "cross street" of struggle to the "ivory tower" of classical literature.
But the author can't join the army and take up a gun to go to the revolution, but he can't quell his dissatisfaction and hatred of the dark reality. The author is confused and contradictory about life, depressed inside, and can't be calm all the time. So the author wrote this article. Through the description of the scenery of the lotus pond on a lonely moonlit night, this paper reveals the author's complex mood of pursuing peace but not getting peace, and dreaming beyond reality but not getting rid of peace, which is the reflection of that dark age in the author's mind.
About the author:
Zhu Ziqing's contribution in the history of prose is various. He is an outstanding essay writer after Bing Xin in the early period of new literature. With the achievement of "beautiful writing", he broke the superstition of the retro school that vernacular Chinese can't be "beautiful writing". On the basis of classical literature and under the background of cultural exchange between China and the West in the May 4th Movement, he created a prose system and style with China national characteristics. In particular, his prose works with high artistic achievements provide a model of vernacular beauty and valuable artistic experience for cultivating literary youth and prospering prose creation.
Zhu Ziqing's prose pursues the word "truth", writes what he sees, hears, thinks and feels with sincere feelings, and achieves realistic artistic effect. Truth is the artistic core of Zhu Ziqing's prose. Telling the truth, describing feelings and scenery are the highest achievements of his prose art.