"It seems that in writing a composition, one must first have in mind a reason for writing. If there is a reason behind…"

"The Western Wing is not a work written by an individual named Wang Shifu alone; if I read it carefully, it will also …"

"Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut."

"I wake up in the morning and seem to hear some one in the house sighing and saying that last night some one died. I i…"

"It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Sudd…"

"To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not hap…"

"To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?"

"A traveller returns home after a long journey, and he sees the old city gate and hears the women and children on both…"

"To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?"

"To have just finished repaying all one's debts. Ah, is this not happiness?"