Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is an essay written by China writer Zhu Ziqing when he was teaching in Tsinghua University. It is widely regarded as a masterpiece of modern lyric prose, because it is included in middle school Chinese textbooks.

The article describes the beautiful scene of the moonlight in the lotus pond, implicitly and euphemistically expresses the author's complex thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction with reality, longing for freedom, and wanting to surpass reality but unable to do so, leaving a trail for the upright intellectuals of old China to wander forward in suffering. It entrusts the author with a kind of political thought longing for the future, and also entrusts the author with his love for the moonlight in the lotus pond.

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Consistent with the artistic conception and tone of his works, the poet used nearly 30 kinds of reduplicated words, which rendered an elegant and good language atmosphere and produced a unique expression effect. For example, in the description of lotus leaves, overlapping words such as twists and turns, fields, pavilions, grains, wisps, density and pulsation are used to accurately and vividly describe the beautiful image of the poet's subjective thoughts.

Some overlapping words describing the beauty of vanilla in classical poetry greatly enriched the modality and charm of the beautiful lotus image, and reached a harmonious fit with the internal lyricism of the works, which made the description language have a kind of elegant beauty and a kind of sad beauty. (Wu, "Talking about Moonlight in the Lotus Pond")