"Children's Fun" full text translation by Shen Fu!

Childlike Interest Shen Fu

I recall that when I was a child, I could open my eyes to the sun and see the details clearly. I would carefully examine the texture of small things, so I always had an interest in things.

Meaning: Looking back on my childhood, I could open my eyes to the sun and see clearly. When I saw very small things, I would carefully observe their textures, so I often gained interest beyond things.

In the summer, mosquitoes turn into thunder, and I personally imagine a group of cranes dancing in the sky. Wherever I want to go, there are thousands or hundreds of cranes, and it turns out they are cranes. When I look at them with my head raised, my neck is very strong. He also left mosquitoes under the plain tent and sprayed smoke slowly, causing them to fly away against the smoke. They looked like a blue cloud and white cranes, and they looked like cranes in the sky, which made them happy and happy.

Meaning: The sound of mosquitoes in summer is like thunder, and I compare them to groups of cranes flying in the sky. Thinking this in my heart, thousands of mosquitoes turned into cranes. I looked up and my neck felt stiff. I let the mosquitoes stay in the tent again and slowly puffed on the smoke and blew out the smoke. They asked them to fly towards the smoke and watched them as white cranes in the blue clouds. Sure enough, they were like cranes in the sky, which made me happy.

I would often squat on the concave and convex places of the earthen wall or the flowerbeds where grasses are cluttered, so that they are flush with the platform; I would look closely and see that the grasses were the forest, the insects and ants were the beasts, and the gravels were the protrusions. It is a hill, and the concave ones are gullies. The mind wanders among them, enjoying itself.

Meaning: I often squat down in the uneven places on the earthen wall, or in the flower beds with thick grasses, as high as the flower beds, and observe carefully, using the grass as a forest and the small insects. and ants as wild beasts, using the convex parts of the soil as hills and the concave parts as valleys, wandering in the mind and enjoying themselves

One day, I saw two insects fighting among the grass. When I looked at them, I was very excited, and suddenly there was a huge thing. , uprooted the mountain and felled the tree, covered it with a toad, and swallowed the two insects with one tongue. When I was young, I was lost in thought and was startled. He was calm, caught the shrimps and toads, whipped them dozens of times, and drove them away to other courtyards.

Meaning: One day, I saw two small insects fighting in the grass. When I was enjoying watching them, suddenly a huge thing came up and knocked down the trees. It turned out to be a toad. As soon as the tongue stuck out, the two bugs were swallowed by it. I was young and was fascinated by what I saw, but I screamed in fright. After calming down, I caught the toad, whipped it dozens of times, and drove it to another yard