汪曾祺，1920年3月5日至1997年5月16日，抒情的人道主義者，中國最后一個純粹文人。著有《邂逅集》《受戒》《大淖記事》散文集《蒲橋集》
《受戒》這本書描述的是小和尚明海和小英子之間的初開的蒙朧愛情故事，并極富有詩情畫意的展現(xiàn)了那一代的田園風(fēng)光和風(fēng)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.
