Prose · LT506

Informal Essays

Intimate, witty vignettes capturing the charm of daily aesthetics and memory.

5works

2dynasties

3authors

Ming

4 works

1368–1644

  1. Record of the Xiangji StudioGui YouguangIn the courtyard there is a loquat tree that my wife planted with her own hands in the year she died. Now it stands tall and spreads like a canopy.
  2. Watching Snow at the Mid-Lake PavilionZhang DaiMist 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.
  3. West Lake on the Fifteenth of the Seventh MonthZhang DaiOn West Lake at the mid-month of the seventh month there is nothing at all to see; one can only look at the people of the seventh-month festival.
  4. Liu Jingting the StorytellerZhang DaiWhen Wu Song reached the inn to buy wine and found no one there, he gave a sudden roar, and all the empty vats and jars in the inn hummed and rang.