Zhang Dai 
West Lake Dream 

West Lake Dream provides a comprehensive description of the important landscapes, Buddhist temples, and sacrificial shrines in Hangzhou. It is written in the order of the general record, North Road, West Road, Middle Road, South Road, and Exterior Scenery, and presents the past and the present of Hangzhou to the readers. It is especially important that the author selects several poems (articles) of the sages and sages after each record, which adds to the glory of the landscape. The collection of these poems and essays is an anthology of West Lake poems and essays. Among the seventy-two records, there are a lot of things about the rise and fall of temples, which can provide a wealth of information for the study of Buddhism. This West Lake Dream was written by Zhang Dai against the background of his life in Hangzhou. Among them, the detailed records of the famous places of West Lake, the unbreakable memories of the smoke and willows of the six bridges, the chanting of the poems of the lake and mountains made by the predecessor, vividly show his old life of chanting the phoenix and the moon, and wandering the mountains and rivers.