The city of
Hangchow fascinated Mulan completely. It had none of the splendor
of Peking; yet it was soft; enticing, exquisite. For it is a lake
city, surroundedby tall mountains, capped by temples and ancient
pagodas. Seeing Hangchow after Peking is like having a good cup of
Hangchow tea after a heavy dinner. Of the beauties of Peking, Mulan
had always liked the Eunuch’s Bridge and the Shihshahai, its most
rural aspects that remind one of the south. Here was Hangchow, the
south itself, with the softness and delicacy of the south. The
Kunming Lakein the New Summer Palace, built by human labor with the
extravagance of theEmpress Dowager, was but meant to be a small
model of the West Lake, and herewas the West Lake itself.
Magnificent as the lake in the Summer Palace is, itcompares with
the West Lake as a shadow with its reality, as a doll with a
livingpretty young woman. The West Lake, known always as
Mademoiselle West, or Hsitse,the most famous ancient beauty
referred to by Mencius, suggests to us always a ficklesouthern
woman, smiling on clear, bright days and knitting her brows on
cloudy,misty days; and like Mademoiselle West, it is more enticing
in the latter mood,when the lake is enveloped in mists. Magic
willow-covered islands seem to floaton the grayish moistness, and
you do not know whether the mountains have goneup to meet the
clouds or the clouds have come down to meet the
mountains.
——From Moment in Peking
杭州城的美，使木兰非常迷恋。没有北京的壮丽，但是秀雅宜人。一片湖城，高山环绕，古塔寺院，散在山巅。游完北京，再游杭州，犹如饱餍甘脂之后，再喝一杯龙井。北京美景之中，木兰最爱西直门外的高亮桥和北海以北的什刹海，因为此两处具有田园之美，使人想起了江南。现在眼前的正是杭州，正是江南，也正富有江南的秀丽。颐和园的昆明湖，是慈禧太后在虚荣奢侈之下由人工挖掘而成的，其构想只不过模仿西湖而已，而现在摆在目前的，才是真正的西湖。颐和园的昆明湖虽然美，比起真正的西湖来，只似影子与实物，只似玩偶娃娃与活美人。西湖，常比做古代美人西子，常被人看做一个娇嫩风流的江南美女，风和日丽时，她面露微笑。烟雨迷濛时，她紧锁眉头；也像西施一样，她紧皱锁眉头时，更令人神荡魂销。杨柳掩映下的岛屿，似乎是飘浮在银灰的雾霭之上，究竟山峦飞腾而上接云雾呢？还是云雾下降而环抱山峦呢？实在令人煞费疑猜。
——摘自《京华烟云》，张振玉 译
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