Six Stories of Floating Life, the first paragraph in the leisure memories, help translate. Also brie

Excerpt from "Six Tales of Floating Life" is about bonsai.

The flowers, plants, mountains and rocks dotted in the bonsai are as fine as the paintings, and the imposing scenery can be fascinating. Brewing a pot of tea, facing the bonsai, can make people into the mind, as if wandering in it, such a bonsai can be enjoyed in the quiet and elegant study. I grow daffodils, but I don't have Lingbi stones, I used to use charcoal like stones instead.

The yellow daffodils with the heart of the buds are five to seven branches of different sizes, planted in a shallow rectangular plate with sand, and charcoal is used instead of stones, which is very interesting in black and white. It is so interesting to extrapolate in this way that it is difficult to list them all at once.

I live at home, and the vase of flowers on the table is always fresh and fresh. Yun said to me: "Your flower arrangement can reflect the characteristics of wind and rain, which can be regarded as very subtle and expressive.

There is a method of drawing grass insects in the drawing technique, why don't you follow it when arranging flowers? I said, "Worms are running around and disobedient in flower arrangement, so how can they imitate it?"

Yun said: "I have a way, but I am afraid that I will be guilty of doing so. I said

You might as well talk about it. She said: "When the insect dies, the color does not change, you can catch praying mantises, insects, butterflies, and other insects, prick them to death with a needle, tie the worm's neck with a filament, tie it to the flowers, and arrange the posture of their legs, or hold the stem, or stand on the leaves, as if they were alive, isn't it also good?"

I was very happy to do what she did, and everyone I saw was amazing.

Original text: When Yu Yi was a child, he was able to open his eyes to the sun and see everything. When you see a small thing, you must examine its texture. Therefore, there is an interest outside the object.

Summer mosquitoes become thunder, and they plan to dance in the air as a group of cranes, and where the heart desires, they may be thousands or hundreds of cranes; Looking at it, the item is strong. Leave the mosquito in the plain tent again, spray smoke slowly, make it rush to smoke and fly, make the green clouds and white cranes, like a crane in the clouds, pleasantly called happy.

Vernacular translation: When I was a child, I was able to open my eyes and look directly at the sun, and my eyes could see extremely small things clearly. When I see something small, I make sure to look at the pattern carefully. Therefore, I often have fun looking at objects other than the object itself.

In summer, mosquitoes chirp like thunder, and I privately compare them to cranes flying in the air. If you imagine the landscape (crane dance) in your heart, then there are thousands or hundreds (flying mosquitoes) and you really think they are cranes.

Looking up at the sight, my neck stiffened because of this. I left the mosquitoes in the white net, and sprayed them slowly with smoke, so that they flew into the smoke, and looked like a white crane in the clouds, and it was really like a crane chirping high-pitched on the clouds, and I cried out with joy.

Source: From Shen Fu of the Qing Dynasty's "Six Records of Floating Life: Leisure Notes".