1, original text
Two Night Scenes by the Hui Chong River/Two Small Scenes by the Hui Chong River
Two or three peach blossoms outside the bamboo forest and ducks in the water first noticed the warm spring. The beach is covered with wormwood, asparagus is beginning to sprout, and puffer fish are preparing to swim upstream from the sea back to the river. The geese fly north, like people who want to return to the north, but because of attachment, poor team. Before flying to the north, I knew that it was snowy in the desert in the north, or the south that spent most of the Spring Festival in the south.
2. Translation
Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest, and ducks are swimming in the water. They first noticed the warming of the river in early spring.
The beach has been covered with Artemisia selengensis, asparagus has begun to sprout, and puffer fish is about to swim back into the river from the sea.
Wild geese fly north, just like people who want to go back to their hometown in the north, but they almost fall behind because of their attachment.
Before flying to the north, I knew that the desert in the north was snowy, so I'd better spend half a month in the spring in the south of the Yangtze River.
Extended data
1, appreciate
The first sentence of the poem is "There are three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo". On the quiet river bank, green bamboos are dripping, and the green bamboo leaves are dotted with three or two peach blossoms. Peach blossoms outside the bamboo, red and green set each other off, and they are on the verge of exploding, vividly expressing the artistic conception of "peach blossoms welcoming the spring" with flowers and bamboo interlaced and red and green set each other off. Peach blossom indicates spring, and spring is coming. Only three or two peach blossoms indicate that the season is actually early spring.
The second sentence of the poem, "Duck Prophet of Spring River Plumbing", has a vision from far to near, that is, from the river bank to the river surface. Spring water is rippling on the river, and active ducks are playing on the river. The silhouette of "Duck Prophet" shows that the spring water is still slightly chilly, so other animals are not sensitive to the arrival of spring, which echoes the peach blossom "three or two branches" in the first sentence and indicates the early spring season.
2. Creative background
Two Late Scenes of Hui Chong Riverside are two poems written by Su Shi for Hui Chong in Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan) in the eighth year of Shen Yuanfeng (1085). This poem was written in Jiangyin.
3. The author
Hui Chong, a native of Jianyang, Fujian, was one of the nine eminent monks in the Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi said that he had "unique skills" ("Painting Poems in Spring"), and Guo, a famous painting historian in China, said that he "painted geese, geese and egrets, especially small scenes, and was good at making distant scenes in the cold river. It is difficult for people to reach the empty scenery (Picture and Experience, Volume 4). It can be seen that Hui Chong's paintings were well-known for a period of time, and The Evening Scene of the Spring River (Qian Zhongshu's Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty as Xiaojing) should be his masterpiece.