Zhu Ziqing 
Moonlight over the Lotus Pond 

Zhu Ziqing’s essays are unadorned, thoughtful, meaningful, profound, deep and rhythmic, and characterized by refined language, elegant writing style and profound thoughts, which give them strong sense of real feelings and emotions. His essays can be divided into three categories: familiar essay, such as The Sight of My Father’s Back and To the Deceased Wife; overseas travels, such as European Tour Miscellany and London Tour Miscellany; and landscape prose, such as Paddling Sound in the Qinhuai River, Moonlight over the Lotus Pond and Spring.