"Watching Snow at the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake" uses the line drawing technique to describe snow scenes.
“It’s just a trace of the long dike, a little pavilion in the center of the lake, a mustard with Yu Zhou, and two or three grains of people in the boat.” A trace, a dot, a mustard, two or three grains, using the line drawing technique, Just like the freehand landscapes in Chinese paintings, just a few strokes contain many changes, long and short, points and lines, squares and circles, more and less, big and small, movement and stillness, concise summary, man and nature*** Together, they constitute an artistic picture with rich artistic conception. The spirit of this painting is distant and refined, and it is also the personality quality respected by the author. This is the spiritual unity and harmony between man and nature.
"Looking at the Snow in the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake" is selected from "Memories of Tao'an Dreams", which is a representative work of Zhang Dai, a writer in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It can be called "the most beautiful article" describing the West Lake in ancient and modern times. The author was born in an official family and has never been an official in his life. Following the two schools of "Gongan" and "Jingling", he wrote about the pain of the country's destruction and family destruction with a light pen, embodying emotions and situations, and far-reaching meaning. He was the most accomplished among the prose writers of the late Ming Dynasty.
Watching Snow in the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake
Author: Zhang Dai
In December of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Yu lived in the West Lake. It snowed heavily for three days, and the sound of people and birds in the lake could not be heard. 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 a boat in the boat, and two or three people in the boat.
When we arrived at the pavilion, there were two people spread out on a felt and sitting opposite each other. A boy was making wine, and the stove was boiling. Seeing Yu, he was overjoyed and 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!"