[Song] Su Shi
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.
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(1) [Hui Chong] Hui Chong was a famous monk in the Northern Song Dynasty, who was good at poetry and painting. This poem was written by Su Shi for Hui Chong's Night Scene of the Spring River.
(2) [reed bud] The tender bud of reed.
(3) [Puffer] A kind of fish with delicious and poisonous meat.
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Green bamboo forest, covered with a few pink peach blossoms. Spring water is rippling on the river and a flock of ducks are playing happily. They first felt that the river was getting warmer in spring. The shore is covered with new Artemisia and newly sprouted reeds, which is the season when puffer fish will lay eggs against the river.
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Su Shi (1037—110/year) was a writer in the Song Dynasty. Zi yue Zhan, no Dongpo lay man. With his father Su Xun and his younger brother Su Zhe, he is also called "Three Sus" and is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". His poems have a wide range of themes, fresh and vigorous, good at exaggeration and metaphor, and unique style. He and Huang Tingjian are also called "Su Huang". Bold words, and Xin Qiji called "Su Xin".
Night Scene by Huichong River is a poem written by Su Shi, a poet in Song Dynasty, for Hui Chong, which reproduces the scenery in early spring in the south of the Yangtze River. The first three sentences describe six kinds of scenery: bamboo and peach blossoms outside the bamboo, ducks and water floating in the river, Artemisia selengensis and newly sprouted reeds. From the riverbank to the river surface and then to the riverbank, the main scenery of the early spring in the south of the Yangtze River in the painting is vividly reproduced, giving people a feeling of vitality.
The fourth sentence is the poet's association. The poet thinks of "the puffer fish will come up" from Artemisia selengensis and several reed buds, and writes some unreasonable and reasonable things in his paintings, which makes people daydream. The poet firmly grasps and highlights the characteristics of natural scenery in seasonal changes, and vividly depicts an early spring picture of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River with "three or two branches", "duck prophet", "short reed bud" and "puffer fish desire to go up". The words "warm" and "desire" use imagination and association to form a vivid picture, which shows the warmth of spring water beyond vision and the message that "the puffer fish wants to go up" under this warm current, and the meaning that the painter is difficult to draw, making the whole poem vivid, fresh and natural.
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