The Story of the Mountain Moon tells the story of Li Zheng, a talented man from the Tang Dynasty who was nominated for a gold medal at a young age. He was unwilling to be among the mediocre, but he had to sacrifice himself for five buckets of rice. In the depression, his personality gradually became distorted, and eventually he lost his humanity and turned into a raging tiger, wandering in the mountains all night long under the cold moonlight. The Story of the Mountain and the Moon expresses the author's confusion and loneliness about life.

"Sangetsuki" is Atsushi Nakajima's most widely known work. This novel is based on the Chinese Tang Dynasty legend "The Legend of Man and Tiger", and incorporates Atsushi Nakajima's characteristic surreal imagination. It shocked the literary world as soon as it was published. It was later included in Japanese middle school Chinese textbooks and became a must-read text for students.

Atsushi Nakajima and "Sangetsuki"

Atsushi Nakajima's father and grandfather were both Han Confucian scholars, so Atsushi Nakajima has been deeply influenced by Chinese culture since he was a child. This is also reflected in his literary works. At the same time, Nakajima Atsushi also absorbed a lot of Western European literature. The "combination of Chinese and Western" makes his works very distinctive. "Dreamy-like, both solemn and humorous" are people's evaluations of his works. He is also known as the beginning of Japanese nihilistic literature, and is known as the "Little Akutagawa". Among his few works, "Moon Moon" is undoubtedly the shining star.

"Sangetsuki" is a selection of his works, including "Sangetsuki", "Disciple", "Li Ling" and other representative works of Atsushi Nakajima. In terms of the description of historical stories, Atsushi Nakajima is unique. Just like in "Li Ling", Sima Qian broke the previous writing system of "narrating without writing" and changed the traditional chronological narrative style into the form of biographies, making it possible to understand historical figures. The description becomes richer. Atsushi Nakajima used characters from history textbooks to create more in-depth and vivid creations based on their experiences and psychology. Using the characteristics of novels and realistic and romantic descriptions, the boring history became more interesting. People accept it.

In "The Story of the Mountain and the Moon", Li _ relies on his loftiness and obsession with becoming famous through literature and eventually turns into a tiger. This is absurd but interesting romanticism. Li _ also said the classic saying out of regret: I am deeply afraid that I am not a beautiful jade, so I dare not study hard, but I half-believe that I am a beautiful jade, so I do not want to be mediocre and associate with rubble. So I gradually separated from the world and alienated myself from the world. The result was that resentment and shame increasingly fueled the timid self-esteem in my heart. This is realism that is close to us.