受戒(The Love Story of a Young Monk)

受戒（The Love Story of a Young Monk)

汪曾祺，1920年3月5日至1997年5月16日，抒情的人道主义者，中国最后一个纯粹文人。著有《邂逅集》《受戒》《大淖记事》散文集《蒲桥集》

《受戒》这本书描述的是小和尚明海和小英子之间的初开的蒙胧爱情故事，并极富有诗情画意的展现了那一代的田园风光和风土人情。

After finishing their work, Xiaoyingzi returned home with a basket full of water chestnuts, leaving her footprints on the soft mud ridges. These fascinating footprints, with five tiny toes, a flat sole and a slender heel, evoked in Mingzi an unprecedented feeling of pleasure, disturbing him.

The reeds had greyish-purple tassels, soft and smooth like rings of shining silk thread. In some places, they had grown spikes like small red candles. On the water surface, there were duckweeds, blue and purple in colour and long-legged mosquitoes and water spiders. The little white flowers of the wild water chestnuts had already blossomed. Then a lapwing, startled, flapped its wings and flew away across the reeds to a safe distance.