"Moon and Mountain" Author: [Japan] Nakajima Atsushi Series: The Beauty of Japan

The Story of the Mountain and Moon is based on a Tang Dynasty legendary novel, describing the process and cause and effect of the arrogant poet Li Zheng's transformation into a tiger under the constant conflict between his self-esteem and inferiority complex. In the allegory of the Biography of Famous People, the author expounds his criticism of nihilism through the archery master Ji Chang's understanding of the state of non-action and non-self.

The chapter on disciples focuses on Zilu and describes how Confucius and his disciples sought the way of benevolence and righteousness in their time, and how they faced the fate they would eventually suffer.

The last chapter, Li Ling, describes the fates of Li Ling, Sima Qian, and Su Wu under the arbitrary control of the despotic monarch. The article is full of the inner conflicts, struggles, loneliness, despair and other complex mentalities of the tragic literati, and is the author's most eye-catching classic.

Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) was a Japanese writer. He graduated from the Department of Literature of Tokyo Imperial University in 1933 and taught at the private Yokohama Girls' High School. In July 1942, he published "The Record of the Mountain and the Moon" and "The Disaster of Words" in "Literary World", which shocked the literary world. Later, he published "Light, Wind, Dream", which was a candidate for the Akutagawa Prize. He died of an asthma attack in December. His works are deeply loved and widely circulated. Among them, "The Record of the Mountain and the Moon" is a frequently selected chapter in Japanese high school Chinese textbooks. The Japanese version of "Li Ling: The Record of the Mountain and the Moon" was selected as the first of the "five outstanding novels" with the most interesting and impressive impression. The Japanese version of "The Complete Works of Nakajima Atsushi" won the "Mainichi Cultural Publishing Award" in Japan.