The elegance in Guo Moruo's egrets refers to the fact that the existence of egrets makes the countryside full of painting and gives people a feeling of otherworldly, as in painting. The relevant original text is as follows:

In the Qingshui field, there are sometimes two egrets standing fishing, and the whole field becomes a picture embedded in a glass frame. The size of the venue seems to be a dressing box designed by an artificial egret.

On a sunny morning, I often see it standing alone on the top of a small tree. It seems unstable, but it is actually very leisurely. This is a hobby that other birds can hardly express. People say it's lookout, but is it really lookout?

Occasionally, egrets fly low in the night sky, which is a good thing for rural life. It is clear, vivid and alive.

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Creation background

Egret was written in 1942, 10, 3 1, which coincided with the second stage of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, when Chiang Kai-shek launched the second anti-communist climax. Guo Moruo was then the Communist Party of China in party member and China, and served as the director of the Language and Culture Working Committee of the Kuomintang government, resisting Japan in a dual capacity. He said: "China is the most literary age at present. The opposition between good and evil, loyalty and rape is extremely obvious. The beauty of human nature has developed to the extreme, and the evil of human nature has also developed to the extreme. "

Therefore, his essays in this period centered on patriotism and anti-traitors, praising the loyalty of patriots and exposing the treachery of traitors. Egret depicts the ecological characteristics of egrets with sincere brushwork, praises the inner beauty contained in ordinary things, and implicitly expresses its political pursuit through lonely and beautiful egrets.