1. Moonlight on the Lotus Pond: Written in July 1927, when the Great Revolution failed, white terror enveloped the land of China. The article describes the beautiful scene of moonlight in the lotus pond, implicitly and euphemistically expresses the author's complex thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction with reality, longing for freedom, and wanting to be beyond reality but unable to do so, leaving a trail for future generations of honest intellectuals in old China wandering forward in suffering.
This is an essay written by Zhu Ziqing when he was teaching in Tsinghua University, which entrusted the author with a kind of political thought longing for the future and also with his love for the moonlight in the lotus pond. It is widely known for its income in middle school Chinese textbooks and is a famous piece of modern lyric prose.
2, "Green": Written in February 1924, it is a landscape prose selected from Zhu Ziqing's "Traces of Wenzhou". In 1923, Zhu Ziqing hired a Chinese teacher from Zhejiang Tenth Middle School. In his spare time, he went to the "plum rain pool" in Xianyan, Ruian. In the bleak and sad season, this essay is about this trip.
The full text gives a detailed description of the scenery in plum rain pool with a warm style, praising the beautiful scenery of the motherland's nature, which is fresh and delicate, beautiful and meticulous, exquisite and poetic. Expressed the author's praise and pursuit of a beautiful realm.
3, "Hurry": Written in March 1922, it coincided with the ebb of the May 4th Movement, and the author was not willing to sink in the hesitation. The article closely followed the word "hurry" and described the trace of the passage of time delicately, expressing the author's helplessness and regret over the passage of time.
In a hurry shows young intellectuals' quest for the future. As a petty-bourgeois intellectual, the author feels the pulse of the times. Zhu Ziqing's heart is full of confusion that he can't find a way out. What the author reveals is not only personal helplessness, but also a part of young people who loved life and pursued progress at that time, but also were perplexed and depressed.
4. Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Paddle Lights: It was written in October 1923, just four years after the May 4th Movement, and the cultural field was relatively neglected. It is an essay written by Zhu Ziqing, a modern essayist, when he visited Qinhuai River with his friend Yu Pingbo. As leaders of the New Culture Movement, the two writers wanted to moisten their dry hearts and comfort their lonely souls by visiting Qinhuai River.
However, during the tour, they personally felt the confrontation between the old and new cultures on the Qinhuai River, where lights and shadows were shining and songs were played all night, which seemed to be out of harmony with this environment. The two writers came on a whim and left disappointed, deeply touched, so they agreed to write this essay on the same topic. This article was published in Oriental Magazine on January 25th, 1924.
5, "Spring": Published in July 1933, the theme of this article is the yearning for the realm of freedom. Although Zhu Ziqing was in the dirty and dark old China at that time, his spiritual world was clear and clear, and his spirit was still uplifting.
In this "ode to spring" full of poetry, in fact, it is full of the writer's thoughts and emotions in a specific period, the pursuit of life and even personality, and shows the traditional cultural accumulation in the writer's bones and his yearning for the realm of freedom. Since then, it has been selected by China middle school Chinese textbooks for a long time.