Du Fu
In the evening, the river is beautiful.
Spring breeze, fragrant flowers and plants.
Mud melts into swallows,
Sleep on the beach.
Annotation explanation
Sunset: the sun in spring. There is a poem "Spring Festival Evening" in The Book of Songs, so later generations call the spring sun "late day".
Melting: warmth. Mud melting: Mud melting, soft and wet.
Modern Translation of Ancient Poetry
The spring sunshine shines brightly on the mountains and rivers, and the wind blows the fragrance of all kinds of flowers and plants. The soft soil attracted a swallow, and the mandarin ducks fell asleep on the warm beach.
Appreciation of Famous Sentences-"Mud melts into swallows, while sand warms the sleeping mandarin ducks."
This short quatrain vividly depicts the picturesque scenery in spring. The first two sentences are a general description of the splendid spring scenery. The short ten words include sunshine, mountains and rivers, spring breeze, flowers and their fragrance, which arouse readers' various senses to experience and feel the beauty of spring. The last two sentences focus on swallows and mandarin ducks. Swallows fly high and low around the warm spring mud, nesting in the mud, giving people a lively impression; Yuanyang, on the other hand, snuggled up to each other and moved quietly in two vivid scenes, which perfectly rendered the happy and harmonious atmosphere between spring and nature and expressed the poet's excitement and happiness.
Why is Swallow in the Mud so good? It is because "mud melting" is closely related to "swallows"-in spring, swallows need to repair their nests with soft mud after returning to the north, and frozen soil is not enough. The soil thaws, swallows fly around, and the spring is full.