陶庵夢憶 西湖夢尋

TaoAn Dream and Seaching Dreams in West Lake are the famous works of Zhang Dai-the fmaous essayist in late Ming Dynasty. Zhang Dai was born in a official family, he lived a sheltered life in his early years. After the Ming Dynasty, he went into seclusion and began his writing life. TaoAn Dream is his recollection of his early life, reflecting teahouse, storytellers acting, landscapes and social life and customs figures in that time. Seaching Dreams in West Lake presents some anecdotes with a lot of poems and odes of the previous scholars. The two books were written with fluency language and literary talent.