Underwater photography after snow

Author: Zhang Dai

Translated text

In December of the fifth year of Chongzhen, I was in Hangzhou West Lake. After three days of heavy snow, there were no tourists in the lake, and even birds could not be heard. It's just dawn I rowed a boat, wore a fur coat and brought a stove, went to the pavilion in the middle of the lake and enjoyed the snow scene alone. The trees are glittering and translucent, and the white air is filled. The sky, clouds, mountains and water are white. The shadow that can be seen on the lake is only a faint trace of the long embankment of the West Lake. The pavilion in the middle of the lake is a dot in the white, and my boat is like a blade of grass floating in the lake. The people on board are like two or three small mustard seeds, that's all.

On the pavilion in the middle of the lake, there are already two people sitting opposite each other with felt mats. A little servant is cooking a wine stove, and the wine on the stove is boiling. When the two men saw me, they were very surprised and said, "How can there be such a spoony person enjoying the snow in the lake!" " "Pull me to drink together. After drinking three large glasses, I managed to say goodbye. Ask their names. It turns out that Jinling people are all visiting here. When I got on my own boat, the man who took the helm for me muttered, "Don't say Mr. Wang is stupid, there are others as stupid as you." "

original text

In December in Chongzhen, I lived by the West Lake. It snowed for many days, and the noise of pedestrians and birds in the lake disappeared. It was even more settled, so I took a boat, held my clothes on fire, and went to the pavilion in the middle of the lake to see the snow alone. Ice flowers are all over the sky, the sky is bright and watery, and the sky is pure white. The shadow on the lake is only the trace of a long bank. There is a small pavilion in the middle of the lake, a mustard and Yu Zhou, and there are only two or three people on board.

In the pavilion in the middle of the lake, I saw two people laying blankets and a child cooking a wine stove. Seeing it, I was overjoyed and said, "There is no such person in the lake!" " Pull me together and drink with me. I tried to drink three glasses of wine and then said goodbye to them. Ask them what their surnames are. They are from Nanjing and are guests in this place. While waiting for the boat, the boatman murmured, "Stop talking about your Excellency, you idiot, and people like you are crazy!" " ! "