The moonlit lotus pond on a summer night is especially enchanting.
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Famously the subject of 朱自清 (Zhu Ziqing)'s 1927 essay 《荷塘月色》 ('Moonlight on the Lotus Pond'), a staple of Chinese middle-school textbooks. The phrase 荷塘月色 on its own evokes that lyrical, slightly melancholic atmosphere.
