Title: You Qingxi Collection

Author: Yuan Zhongdao

Year of Creation: Ming Dynasty

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Jumping beads and splashing snow in Qingxi are no different from spring water, but its water color is the most peculiar. Covering the color of the world, it is correct,

I know, but I don't know much about it alone Only when I saw this water today did I know that there really is blue in the world. Such as autumn, such as evening haze;

It is thicker than a willow and lighter than the first one. Warm in jade, slippery in ten thousand (3); It's cold for the skin,

You can eat.

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The water in Qingxi is stirring, and the spray is like jumping pearls and falling snowflakes, which is no different from the spring water in other places, but the color of the water is the most peculiar. Probably the colors in the world are mostly positive colors (cyan, yellow, red, white and black) or indirect colors (green, red and purple), which I know, and then I don't know much about blue (cyan). Now that I see the water here, I know that there is really blue (turquoise) in the world. It is like the autumn sky, like the fog in the forest in the morning; It is a little thicker than farm tobacco and newly grown willow branches, and a little lighter than newly peeled bamboo shoots. It is softer than jade, smoother than white silk, reaching the extreme of cold and abundance, and can be touched and eaten.

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① Haze: fog in forest fog. ② Basket: (tuò): bamboo shoot skin and shell. 30,000: white silk. ④ Touch (f incarnation): Touch.

Yuan Zhongdao (1575— 1630), a writer in Ming dynasty, was a writer with few words and few articles. One of the leaders of the "Public Security School", the younger brother of Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Hongdao. Han nationality, Huguang Public Security (now Hubei). In the forty-fourth year of Wanli (16 16), he was a Jinshi, and he was awarded a professor in Huizhou, ending with a doctor in the official department. He and his brother Zongdao and Hongdao are also called "three yuan", and their achievements are second only to Hongdao. His literary thought is basically consistent with Hongdao, emphasizing the spirit of nature. He died later than his two brothers, witnessed the abuses of those literati who imitated the public security school, and formed the idea of attaching importance to spirit and style in his later years. His works are superior to prose. Travel notes can be straightforward and written clearly; The diary is full of essence, which has a certain influence on the diary prose of later generations. He is the author of 20 volumes of Xue Kezhai Collection and 20 volumes of Yuan Xiaoxiu Diary.