Creative background: "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" was painted in July 1927, when 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 "little pawn in the great era", Zhu Ziqing has been shouting and fighting, but after the April 12 coup, he went from the "cross streets" of struggle to the "ivory tower" of classical literature. However, the author can neither write to join the army nor pick up a gun to make a revolution, but he still cannot calm down his dissatisfaction and hatred of the dark reality. The author feels confused and conflicted about life, his heart is depressed, and he can never calm down. So the author wrote this article. Through the description of the scenery of the lotus pond under the deserted moonlit night, this prose reveals the author's complex mood of wanting to find peace but not finding it, and fantasizing about transcending reality but being unable to transcend. This is exactly the reflection of that dark era on the author's mind. :
About the work: "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" is an essay written by the famous Chinese writer Zhu Ziqing when he was teaching at Tsinghua University. It describes the beauty of the moonlight over the lotus pond in Tsinghua University and expresses his melancholy mood. This article is beautifully written and rich in imagination. It is well-known for being included in middle school Chinese textbooks in mainland China and Hong Kong. But some people question the value of this article. This article was written in July 1927, during the "April 12" incident. Zhu Ziqing, who had participated in the May 4th Movement, faced this dark reality. He was filled with grief, anger, dissatisfaction, and fell into anguish and hesitation that he could not understand the reality.
About the author: Zhu Ziqing (November 22, 1898 - August 12, 1948), whose original name was Zihua, and his nickname was Qiushi, which means Chunhua Qiushi, and his courtesy name was Peixian. Famous modern writer, poet, scholar, and democratic fighter. Originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, he was born in Donghai, Jiangsu (now Lianyungang City), and later settled in Yangzhou with his grandfather and father. Zhu Ziqing's grandfather, Zhu Zeyu, was named Jupo and his original surname was Yu. He changed his surname because he inherited the Zhu family name. He was a cautious person and served as a judge in Haizhou, Jiangsu for more than 10 years during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. His father's name is Hongjun, also known as Xiaopo. He is married to Zhou and is a scholar. In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu (1901), Zhu Hongjun went from Haizhou to Shaobo Town, Yangzhou Prefecture, to take office.
Appreciation of the work: "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" is a famous piece of modern lyric prose. Through the delicate description of "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond", the article implicitly and euphemistically expresses the author's complex thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction with reality, desire for freedom, and wanting to transcend reality but cannot. It leaves us with the story of the upright intellectuals of old China in their sufferings. Wandering forward in the footsteps.