Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is an essay written by China writer Zhu Ziqing when he was teaching in Tsinghua University. It is widely regarded as a masterpiece of modern lyric prose, because it is included in middle school Chinese textbooks. The article describes the beautiful scene of the moonlight in the lotus pond, 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 a trail for the upright intellectuals of old China to wander forward in suffering. It entrusts the author with a political thought of longing for the future, and also entrusts the author with his love for the moonlight in the lotus pond.
Brief introduction of the author
Zhu Ziqing (1898~ 1948), formerly known as Huazi, was named Qiushi. People from Yangzhou, Jiangsu.
Early member of "Literature Research Association", famous modern essayist and scholar. Professor Tsinghua University was transferred to The National SouthWest Associated University to teach after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Under the influence of the anti-Japanese democratic movement, the political attitude is obviously inclined to progress. Actively participated in the anti-imperialist democratic movement in his later years. His prose, with rigorous structure and meticulous brushwork, can euphemistically express his inner feelings about natural scenery through close observation or in-depth appreciation, regardless of scenery description or lyricism. Express true feelings, poetic and picturesque. His main works are Destruction, Traces, Back, European Miscellanies, London Miscellanies and so on.