Hui Chong's Poems on the Twilight of Chunjiang River

Hui Chong's poem about the night scenery on the riverside is: Peach blossoms are three or two branches outside the bamboo, and the duck prophet warms the riverside. 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:

There are two or three peach blossoms outside the bamboo forest, and the ducks playing in the water first notice the warming of the river in early spring. The beach is covered with Artemisia selengensis and reeds are sprouting short buds. At this time, the puffer fish will swim from the sea to the upper reaches of the river.

Precautions:

Hui Chong (also known as Hui Chong): A native of Jianyang, Fujian, one of the nine monks in the early Song Dynasty, he can write poems and draw pictures. Night Scene by the River is the title of Hui Chong's paintings. There are two paintings, one is a duck play and the other is a flying goose. Qian Zhongshu's Notes on Selected Poems of Song Dynasty is called Xiaojing. Many annotations are useful for Xiaojing and Night Scene, and the complete works of Dongpo and the annotations before the Qing Dynasty are all useful.

Artemisia selengensis: the name of grass, including Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua. Reed bud: the young bud of reed, which is edible.

Puffer: a kind of fish, the scientific name is Qu. Its meat is delicious, but its ovaries and liver are highly toxic. Produced in coastal areas and some inland rivers of China. Go against the current every spring and lay eggs in fresh water.

Up: refers to going upstream.

Appreciate:

Hui Chong was a monk and painter in the Song Dynasty. This poem was inscribed by Su Shi in Hui Chong's Riverside Scenery. Hui Chong's original painting has been lost, and some versions of this poem are called "Riverside Scenery", which cannot be verified now.

Vivid painting makes people have a specific visual feeling, but it can only show a specific picture and has certain limitations. Although a good poem has no visible image, it can attract readers to the beautiful artistic conception formed by the poet's unique conception with vivid language to make up for what some pictures can't express.

This poem not only retains the image beauty of the picture, but also exerts the advantages of the poem. With its rich charm and mixed pen and ink, the poet makes the spring scenery depicted in the original painting so charming. Su Shi has a new idea while describing according to the picture, which makes the beautiful images in the painting more poetic and charming.