Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Mid-Lake Pavilion of West Lake
Raised as an islet with a pavilion by Hangzhou prefect Sun Meng in 1552, it is the spot Zhang Dai rowed to on a snowy night in his celebrated sketch.
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- Watching Snow at the Mid-Lake PavilionClassical ProseZhang Dai
Mist and frost coalesced into boundless haze; sky, clouds, hills, and waters were pure white above and below. Shadows on the lake were merely one line of long dike, one dot of Mid-Lake Pavilion, one blade of grass for my skiff, and two or three mustard seeds for the passengers aboard.