First, a general description of color matching, body shape and everything is suitable, followed by a detailed description of snow-white withered hair, streamlined structure of the whole body, iron beak and blue feet.
After that, the egret is compared with cranes and herons, and the exquisite and harmonious beauty of the color and shape of the egret is further felt from "adding a little too long, subtracting a little too short, plain too white and black".
The full text is elegant in language, profound in meaning, accurate in words and simple in language. There is no direct lyric, but every sentence is full of emotion.
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The creative background of Egret;
Egret was written in 1942,10,31,which was at the second stage of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and Chiang Kai-shek launched the second anti-* * climax.
Guo Moruo was then the * * * production party of party member and China, and served as the director of the Language and Culture Working Committee of the Kuomintang government, resisting Japan in a dual capacity. He said: "China is the most literary age at present. The opposition between good and evil, loyalty and rape is extremely obvious. The beauty of human nature has developed to the extreme, and the evil of human nature has also developed to the extreme. " Therefore, his essays in this period centered on patriotism and anti-traitors, praising the loyalty of patriots and exposing the treachery of traitors.
Egret depicts the ecological characteristics of egrets with sincere brushwork, praises the inner beauty contained in ordinary things, and implicitly expresses its political pursuit through lonely and beautiful egrets.
In the beautiful fields in the south of China, by the clear and shallow river, an ordinary waterfowl is honored as an egret, a hermit by the water and an elder in Jiangtian, which adorns rural life with special interests. Guo Moruo eulogized the egret with his unique observation enthusiasm.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Egret (Guo Moruo's prose)