The meaning of an ancient poem about the evening scenery of Hui Chong's Chunjiang River:
Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest, and ducks playing in the water are the first to notice the warming of the river in early spring.
The beach was covered with Artemisia selengensis, and the reeds also sprouted short buds. At this time, the puffer fish was about to swim upstream from the sea to the rivers.
"Original"
"The Night Scene of the Spring River in Hui Chong"
Author: Su Shi
There are three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, and he is a duck prophet who warms the spring river.
Artemisia selengensis has short reed buds all over the ground, which is the time when puffer fish want to go up.
"Notes"
Artemisia selengensis: the name of grass, including Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua. Reed bud: the young bud of reed, which is edible.
puffer fish: a kind of fish, the scientific name is "Qu". Its meat is delicious, but its ovaries and liver are highly toxic. Produced in China's coastal areas and some inland rivers. Go against the river and lay eggs in fresh water every spring.
up: refers to going against the river.
"Creation Background"
"Two Nightscape on the Spring River in Hui Chong" is an inscribed poem written by Su Shi for Hui Chong in Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) in 185 (the eighth year of God's reign in Yuanfeng). One said that this poem was written in Jiangyin. This poem is his first.
"Appreciation of the Whole Poem"
The title of this poem is "Duck Drama", which reproduces the mid-spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in the original painting, and integrates the poet's reasonable imagination, bringing out the best in each other with the original painting.
This poem successfully describes the scenery along the Chunjiang River in early spring. Su Shi, with his meticulous and keen feelings, captures the characteristics of the scenery during the season change and expresses his joy and admiration for early spring. The whole poem is full of spring and vitality, giving people a fresh and comfortable feeling. Su Shi, a poet, put forward that "Poetry and painting are the same, excelsior and fresh" (Two Branches Drawn by Master Book of King Yanling in Shu) and "There are pictures in poems and poems in paintings" (Volume 5 of Dongpo Inscription and Postscript, Clouds and Rain in Shuma Lantian), which has been well verified in his poem "The Night Scene of the Spring River in Hui Chong".
"Author's Introduction"
Su Shi (January 8, 137-August 24, 111) was born in Luancheng, Hebei Province, a famous writer, calligrapher and Su Xian in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty and made great achievements in poetry, ci, prose, calligraphy and painting. The text is vertical and horizontal; Poetry has a broad theme, fresh and healthy, uses exaggerated metaphors and has a unique style. It is also called "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. Ci is an uninhibited school, and Xin Qiji is the representative of the uninhibited school, and he is also called "Su Xin"; Prose writing is rich and unrestrained, and it is also called "Ousu" with Ouyang Xiu, and it is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi's good books, one of the "Song Sijia"; He is good at literati painting, especially at ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. Together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Ouyang Xiu, they are called "four great writers of the ages". His works include Dongpo Seven Episodes, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Atlas, Ancient Wood and Strange Stone Atlas and so on.