"Two Late Scenes on the Spring River in Huichong" was written by Su Shi in the eighth year of Yuanfeng of Shenzong (1085).
"Two Poems on Evening Scenes on the Spring River by Huichong" is a group of poems composed by the Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Shi on Huichong's "Evening Scenes on the Spring River". 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 original text is as follows:
Part 1
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.
The second one
The returning Hong wanted to break the group in twos and twos, but they still looked like people returning from the north.
I know from afar that there are many winds and snows in the Shuo Desert, but I am waiting for the spring in the south of the Yangtze River.
The translation is as follows:
Part 1
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, asparagus has begun to sprout, and the pufferfish is about to swim upstream from the sea to the river.
Second
The wild geese flew north, just like people who want to return to their hometown in the north, but because of attachment, they almost fell behind.
Even before flying to the north, I already knew that the desert in the north was very windy and snowy, so it was better to spend half a month of spring in the south of the Yangtze River.
Words and Sentences
⑴ Huichong (also known as Huichong): a monk from Jianyang, Fujian, one of the nine monks in the early Song Dynasty, who was able to write poetry and paint. "Spring River Evening Scene" is the title of Hui Chong's painting. There are two paintings, one is a picture of ducks playing and the other is a picture of flying geese. Qian Zhongshu's "Selected Notes on Song Poems" is "Xiaojing". Many annotated editions use "Xiao Jing" and "Wan Jing", so from "The Complete Works of Dongpo" and the annotated editions before the Qing Dynasty, "Wan Jing" is used. ?
⑵ Artemisia annua: the name of grass, including Artemisia annua, Artemisia annua and other species. "The Book of Songs" "Yo yo deer calls, eating wild wormwood." Reed buds: young buds of reeds, edible.
⑶ Pufferfish: A kind of fish, scientific name is "Fugu". The meat is delicious, but the ovaries and liver are highly toxic. Produced in my country's coastal areas and some inland rivers. Every spring they swim up the river to lay eggs in fresh water. Up: refers to going up the river.
⑷Guihong: Guiyan. Breaking the group: leaving the flying group.
Extended information:
Many anthologies only focus on the first song, so the second song is rarely known. In fact, the second song is also very good. The first sentence roughly describes the "Picture of Flying Geese" painted by Hui Chong. The wild geese are flying north, but a few geese are reluctant to leave and almost fall behind the team. And in the next sentence, these geese are compared to "people returning from the north", which is very vivid and vividly paints the scene.
In the third and fourth sentences of the poem, the wild geese are further given human emotions. "I know from afar that there are many winds and snows in the Shuo Desert, but I am waiting for the half-moon spring in the south of the Yangtze River." The poet's imagination is rich. The reason why the wild geese are reluctant to leave is because the south is warmer than the north, so the poet wrote that the wild geese think that the north is very cold, and they know from a distance that the desert is windy and snowy; that's not all. In the last sentence, the poet further writes that the wild geese hope to stay in the south of the Yangtze River for a few more years. day.
The use of this anthropomorphic technique transformed Hui Chong's paintings from "freeze-frame" to "video", making the scene of wild geese flying north full of human emotions, which is quite innovative.
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