Modern scholar Wang Guowei wrote in "Human Words": "There is my state, and I observe things with me, and the old things all have my color." Originally, whether it is the lotus pond or the moonlight, both They are just objective scenery in nature, but in Zhu Ziqing's eyes, they have become the carrier of his own thoughts, feelings and ideal personality. When analyzing this article, many commentators focus on the "hazy" composition of "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond", believing that this reflects the author's confusing, smoke-like, dream-like melancholy, the so-called "using hazy scenery to express hazy feelings." This certainly makes sense, but it’s only half true. There are many "hazy scenes" in nature, but why did the author choose "lotus pond" and "moonlight" to express his emotions? The essence of the problem is that the "lotus pond" here is the lotus pond under the moon, and the "moonlight" here is the moonlight above the lotus. Although haziness is the most common point between the two, what Zhu Ziqing relies on to express his ambition is the clearer similarity between the two. This is the nobility of "Lotus" and "Moon"! Therefore, in the author's writing, the lotus leaves are pure, the flowers are pure, the lotus fragrance is light, the moon is like water, the moonlight is like fog, the moonscape is like a song... and all of these are symbols of the author's noble, pure, simple and unpretentious character.
The author's original name was "Zi Hua", and later he changed his name to "Zi Qing". From this, we can read the similarity between the beauty of the lotus moon and the author's character. This is the word "Qing": free from dirt and unstained, bright and flawless! And the author has been worthy of the word "self-purification" throughout his life: upright, poor, innocent, incorruptible...