Why did Hui Chong paint "Duck Play" and "Flying Geese"?

The first poem is titled "Duck Play Picture", which reproduces the mid-spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in the original painting, and integrates the poet's reasonable imagination to complement the original painting. The second poem is titled "Picture of Flying Wild Geese", which incorporates human emotions into the wild geese flying north, and expresses the beauty of spring in the south of the Yangtze River.

1. Original text

Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a prophet of the warmth of the spring river.

The ground is covered with wormwood and short reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come.

2. Translation

Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest. Ducks are playing in the water. They are the first to notice the warming of the river in early spring. The river beach is already full of mugwort, and the reeds are beginning to sprout, and the pufferfish are about to swim upstream from the sea to the river.

3. Source

Song Dynasty Su Shi's "Two Evening Scenes on the Spring River by Huichong"

Appreciation of "Two Evening Scenes by the Spring River by Huichong"

The first line of the poem is "Three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo". Looking across the sparse green bamboo, a few peach blossoms are swaying. Peach and bamboo contrast with each other, and red and green set off the scenery. The spring atmosphere is particularly lovely. Although this is just a simple sentence, it reveals a lot of information. First of all, it shows the sparseness of the bamboo forest. If it were dense, the peach blossoms would not be visible. Secondly, it indicates the season and highlights the word "early". The spring cold has just passed, and it is not the time for the peach blossoms to bloom yet, but the infinite vitality and potential of spring have already been revealed.