Hui Chong Chunjiang Night Scene
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.
Translation:
Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest, and ducks are swimming in the water. They first noticed the warming of the river in early spring. The beach is covered with Artemisia selengensis, even the reeds are sprouting, and the puffer fish is about to swim from the sea to the rivers.
Appreciate:
In the first sentence of the poem, there are three or two peaches outside the bamboo. Looking across the sparse bamboo, several peach blossoms are swaying. Peach blossoms and bamboo are in contrast, red and green, and spring is particularly charming. Although this is just a simple sentence, it reveals a lot of information. First of all, the bamboo forest is sparse. If it's sunny, you won't see peach blossoms. Secondly, show the season and point out an early word. Just after the cold spring, it is not the time for peach blossoms to bloom, but the infinite vitality and potential of spring have been revealed.
In the second sentence of the poem, the duck prophet in spring water heating has a vision from far to near, that is, from the river bank to the river surface. Spring water is rippling on the river, and active ducks are playing on the river. The silhouette of the duck prophet shows that the spring water is still slightly chilly, so other animals are not sensitive to the arrival of spring, which echoes the peach blossom in the first sentence and indicates the early spring season. This poetic sentence uses a Tang poem: What is Meng Jiao's most prophetic? The dispute between the grass with deficiency and deficiency (after the spring rain) and Du Mu (Xu Hun) was not clear at first with the warm goose with Pugen water and the fragrant bee with plum diameter (boat trip in early spring). Su Shi, who is ignorant of the past, combined the intention of his predecessors' poems with his own observation and refined this quip. Ducks know that pipes, which appeal to emotion and imagination, are difficult to express in pictures, but poets express this in their poems by putting themselves in others' shoes. Ducks playing freely in the river first feel the temperature rise of the spring water, which complements the visual impression of the spring water in the picture with the tactile impression. Ducks can predict the heating of spring water because they have lived in water for many years. As long as the river doesn't freeze, they always jump into the water to play. Therefore, it is these ducks, which are closely related to water, who are the first to know the water temperature changes in the Chunjiang River. This shows that you have to go through everything to have a true feeling. This poem not only reflects the poet's careful observation of nature, but also reflects the poet's philosophical thinking about life. A duck in the water knows the warmth of the spring river, which is comparable to a leaf falling to know the autumn of the world.
Three or four sentences in the poem: Artemisia selengensis is full of short reed buds, just as the puffer fish wants to go up. These two sentences are still closely related to early spring. Artemisia selengensis and dwarf reed buds are yellow and green, gorgeous and charming, showing a scene of spring and prosperity. The puffer fish wants to use the characteristic that the puffer fish only goes upstream when the water is heated in Chunjiang River to further highlight the word "spring", which was not in the picture originally and is difficult to achieve with a brush. However, the poet succeeded in making it difficult to write, injecting the breath of spring and vitality into the whole picture. Zhang Lei, a student of Su Shi, also recorded in Ming Dow magazine that the Yangtze natives eat puffer fish, but they cook it with Artemisia selengensis and bamboo shoots, that is, reed buds and leeks, and think that these three kinds are the best match with puffer fish. This shows that Su Shi's association is well-founded and natural. This is also the beauty of poetry. Although the picture does not describe the action of the puffer fish, the poet knows the desire of the puffer fish from the overgrowth of Artemisia selengensis and the germination of reeds, thus drawing the image of the dolphin going downstream in the riverside bloom, supplementing the reality with imaginary reality. It is through this kind of pen and ink that Su Shi transformed the silent and still picture into a lively poetic scene. In Su Shi's eyes, this painting is no longer a plane static picture on paper in the frame, but gives people a profound experience and subtle observation of ecology. The former is picturesque and the latter is realistic, and the two are confused. I don't know which is the picturesque scene and which is the real scene. The poet's artistic association broadens the world beyond the field of vision expressed by painting, and makes poetry and painting combine perfectly.