Tang Ye Se Analysis

Introduction
He Tang Yue Se was a highly appreciated prose written by a famous Chinese author, Zhu Ziqing. It was famous for the way that Zhu depicted the glamorous scenery of a lake and blossoming lotuses he saw at night, which was reflecting his emotions and deep feelings. The source text analyzed in this article is an excerpt of the vivid descriptions of the nightscape.
Zhu was always known as a patriotic writer. The troubles in his life and the destiny of the country deeply interfered his writings. During that special period when his motherland was in danger of aggression, he was tortured inside and couldn’t help to bear shames on himself for his noncontributing to his beloved country and people. Thus, in a night of impatience and sorrow,

Therefore he is able to choose the most propet methods for translation. Generally, Reiss identified three text types: content-focused text, form-focused text, and appeal-focused text, which have different dominant functions. The language in a content-focused text is rather informative, while in a form-focused text what need to be emphasized is the esthetic and expressive effects. Appealing-focused texts intend to persuade the readers. Moreover, Reiss also provides a critical lens for assessing translation quality, through examining the shifts of the linguistic semantic, lexical, grammatical and stylistic elements in the target text. Hence, the following analysis is going to assess the translation of the excerpt of He Tang Yue Se by investigating how the four kinds of linguistic components are processed under the guidance of Reiss’s assessment

Certainly, the reduplications were impossible to be kept in English text, but the translator still skillfully made reasonable changes to meet the requirements of the synthetic language, while the original effect was also reserved.
Likewise, the synesthesia effects were also well kept in the target text. For instance, in the first paragraph, the author described the moonlight as “远处高楼上渺茫的歌声”. The translator thus literally translated it as “faint singing drifting from a distant building”. Moreover, the author showed the liquid-like texture of moonlight by using a verb “泻”, which was translated directly as “shed”. It is another representation of the establishment of the original stylistic feature in the target