The so-called beauty takes flowers as the pose, birds as the sound, the moon as the god, dimension as the pose, jade as the bone, ice and snow as the skin, autumn water as the pose and poetry as the heart. I am not alone.

Source: Nightmare Shadow by Juck Zhang, a writer in Qing Dynasty.

Translation:

A person who can be called a beauty has a flower-like appearance, a beautiful bird's voice, a moon-like charm, a graceful figure of willows, a perfect skeleton like jade, a white skin of ice and snow, a watery figure and a rich poetic heart. I can't find anything to criticize.

Extended data:

Nightmare Shadow is a book published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2008. The author is a collection of essays by Juck Zhang and China.

Nightmare mainly discovers beautiful things with elegant mind and eyes, which can be said to be a work for beauty. There is no sharp criticism in the book, only cynicism without losing grace. And these injustices and satires are mild.

A book like "Nightmare" is not a dagger throwing a gun, but more like bean jelly in Chinese medicine. Shi Pang, who wrote the preface to Sleepy Dreams, said that Zhang Chao's book "takes romance as the way and teaches humor".

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