《荷花淀》是一篇颇有影响的小说。作者孙犁从生活出发,以饱满的政治热情,塑造了水生夫妇这两个真实动人的形象。作者善于描写人物的肖象。小说是这样描写水生的肖象的:“这年轻人不过二十五六岁,头戴一顶大草帽,上身穿一件洁白的小褂,黑单裤卷过了膝盖,光着脚。”作者只写了水生的年龄,身上的小褂,卷过膝盖的单裤和他那一双光脚。尽管只是寥寥数笔,却把一个干净利落、精明能干的水乡青年的外貌清晰地勾 Lotus Lake is an influential novel. Sun Li, the author, started with life and created the two true and moving images of the aquatic couple with full political enthusiasm. The author is good at depicting portraiture of characters. The novel describes the aquatic portrait like this: “The young man was only twenty-five or six years old, wearing a big straw hat, wearing a white neoprene, and his black singles rolled over his knees and bare feet.” The author only wrote about the aquatic age, the body’s little sister-in-law, the single pants rolled over his knees, and his bare feet. In spite of the few strokes, it clearly shows the appearance of a clean and smart young people in the water township.