The general idea is that the author fell asleep listening to the sound of rain in the awning boat, and his body and mind could not help but blend into the flowery scenery of Jiangnan shrouded in mist and rain.
Provenance:
Inscription on Wu Guanzhong's painting.
Appreciation and interpretation:
For some people, Jiangnan is a light ink painting. With a brush and a little ink, you can draw the dream of Jiangnan in your heart. Misty rain, small bridges and flowing water, plus a awning boat, are the most poetic scenery in Jiangnan in dreams. If Jiangnan is a dream, then the awning boat is a bit of agility that cannot be erased in the dream. The awnings in the water alley are swaying, crossing the small bridge and passing by other people's houses, swaying the story of Jiangnan.
The black-topped boat is not on the beach of the Spring River on a moonlit night, nor does it have the grandeur and luxury of the Qinhuai Painted Boat, but it combines the frailty of the scholar, the play of the children, the gentleness of the daughter, and the simplicity of the people, all of which are completely natural and integrated. As one body. Maybe time will really stand still in one place, the familiar awning boat parked at the pier, the familiar black felt hat, and the familiar boat girl. Poems and paintings sleep in misty pavilions, white walls, blue tiles and black awning boats, one oar shakes the heart mirror, and someone's Wu music plays the strings in a low voice.
Take a small boat with a black awning, pour a pot of wine of time, take a look at the scenery on both sides of the strait, listen to a Wuyin tune, sleep on the water, and suddenly feel like you are in a peachland. In the dusk of sunset, I stood at the bridge, watching the late-night awning boats passing by leisurely, then going away and disappearing into the light twilight. Quiet village, quiet dusk, watching the sunset quietly, waiting for the moon to rise. The two ends of the awning boat are pointed, and the ship is covered with a semicircular awning, which is painted with tung oil black paint, so it is called "Wu". The awning boat has been around for more than 2,500 years.
Wupeng boats are a regional symbol of Jiangnan water towns. They often appear in dense water alleys. They move briskly and park leisurely. They can be alone or in a group. . Lu You once described the black-awned boat: a light boat of eight feet with three low awnings, occupying the misty rain in Pingzhou. The mist and rain in the river south of the Yangtze River are elegant and quiet, which cannot be separated from the background of the awning boat. Traveling is brisk, parking is leisurely and elegant, swaying and waking up from dreams, swaying the story of Jiangnan.
The black-topped boat sings a song of mourning, who has lost the past, and who has lost his time... The black-topped boat carries the meaning of Tang poetry and Song lyrics, moored quietly with a kind of feminine femininity. Under the moonlit bridge, all the tenderness in life are transferred to the awning boat. In the past, people could not do without this small awning boat when they went out to farm, fish and catch shrimps, visit relatives and friends, and attend weddings and funerals.
The waves on the river are vast. Boating on the river and traveling thousands of miles along the river has a unique charm. Stopping at the shore, the silence remains as before, which is the artistic conception of "crossing the wild without a boat". The lights are sparkling and the people are singing softly, which is the gentle and charming paved boat. The most beautiful thing is an encounter in a Wupeng boat. On board and off the boat, every moment can tell a story about the past and present life. The gradually curved roof and the old hull are slowly moving along with the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River. Here is the most splendid scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, and here is the most fundamental past of the south of the Yangtze River.
Every awning boat has its own story in the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River. At this moment, I seem to hear the oar sound of the awning boat getting closer and closer. I dreamed of Jiangnan, lying drunk in the mist and rain. I didn’t want to be a guest, but wanted to be a returnee.
About Wu Guanzhong:
Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010), a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is a famous contemporary painter, oil painter and art educator. Representative works of oil paintings include "Three Gorges of the Yangtze River", "Northern Scenery", "Birds' Paradise", "Huangshan Pines", "Lu Xun's Hometown", etc. There are more than ten kinds of personal collections, including "Wu Guanzhong on Art", "Wu Guanzhong's Selected Prose", "Beauty and Ugliness", etc. ?
At 23:57 on June 25, 2010, Mr. Wu Guanzhong died in Beijing Hospital due to ineffective treatment. He was 91 years old. On April 4, 2016, Wu Guanzhong's oil painting "Zhouzhuang" was sold for HK$236 million, setting a new Chinese oil painting auction record.