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.
This poem is an inscribed poem, describing the spring scenery painted by Hui Chong, a monk in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Hui Chong (965-10/7), a native of Jianyang, Fujian, became a monk in the Northern Song Dynasty and was good at poetry and painting. As a poet, he specializes in five laws, writes more about natural scenery, avoids using allusions but is still rough, and strives to be precise and clean, which is highly praised by Ouyang Xiu and others. As a painter, he "paints geese, geese and egrets, especially small scenes, which are good at being cold and far away, delicate and ethereal, which is hard to reach" (Guo dialect in Northern Song Dynasty).
The above is Baidu Encyclopedia's introduction to Hui Chong.
According to the lesson of ancient poetry, we all know that Su Shi and Fo Yin and other monks are friends, and we will subconsciously think that Su Shi and Hui Chong are also friends. Actually, it is not. When Su Shi was born, Hui Chong had been dead for twenty years.
I will make the mistake in the "ancient poetry class", not thinking, blindly inferring, not paying attention to evidence, only relying on my own feelings. This arbitrary judgment method should be corrected in the future.
In some places, this poem is called "Little Scene by the River" and in others it is called "Night Scene by the River", but we can't see the morning and evening in Su Shi's poem, so we have to forget this question.
The first sentence, "There are three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo", is a few figures, and the pink and green spring scenery is vividly on the paper. I thought that when I went to my grandmother's house, there were peach trees in the fields beside the road. In spring, peach blossoms bloom one after another, and bamboo leaves gradually turn green from yellow-green in winter, with bright colors and full of spring.
The second sentence, "Duck Prophet of Spring River Plumbing", is simple and clear, and does not need too much translation. Now this poem is often used to illustrate that practice makes true knowledge. For me, it should be the "tooth" prophet of spring water heating. After all, when I brush my teeth in the dormitory water room, the water in winter always makes my teeth unbearable. After the weather gets warmer, even if I haven't taken off my thick clothes, I can be lazy and brush my teeth without heating water.
The third sentence "Artemisia selengensis is covered with short buds", and the river is covered with Artemisia selengensis and reeds. Artemisia selengensis is fresh and tender, and reed is still a bud.
The last sentence "It's time for the puffer fish to come up" is not the scenery in the painting, but the poet's association with Artemisia selengensis. According to the ancient poetry class, Jiangnan people at that time liked to cook puffer fish with Artemisia selengensis, reed buds and shepherd's purse, which was said to be the most delicious. As a great gourmet, how could Su Can Dongpo not eat this delicious food? It's not surprising that when he saw Artemisia selengensis and reed buds, their good friend "puffer fish" automatically popped up in his mind.
I have never eaten fresh puffer fish, but because my hometown is by the sea, my aunt often takes dried puffer fish. We'll stew this puffer fish with pork belly and dried bamboo shoots. It's delicious. But when I was a child, I didn't know that puffer fish was poisonous at all, and I never knew that only a few people would treat puffer fish as ingredients. Is it because we dried it, so there is no problem? Or is it because dealing with puffer fish is not as difficult as advertised?