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.
The geese flying from the north, like those who return to the north, are reluctant to go and are almost left behind. Thousands of miles away, I already know that the desert in the north is snowy, so it is better to stay in the spring in the south of the Yangtze River for half a month.
Original text:
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.
The geese fly north, like people who want to return to the north, but because of attachment, poor team.
Before flying to the north, I knew that it was snowy in the desert in the north, or the south that spent most of the Spring Festival in the south.
Two Scenes of the Late River in Hui Chong is a set of poems written by Su Shi to Hui Chong on the Late River.
Extended data
Poetry appreciation
The first poem entitled "Duck Play" reproduces the mid-spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River in the original painting, and incorporates the poet's reasonable imagination, which complements the original painting.
There are three or two peach blossoms 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 the word "early". 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.
"Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet" 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 "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 "three or two branches" in the first sentence and indicates the early spring season.
"A duck knows how to warm water", which appeals to emotion and imagination, is difficult to convey in the picture, but the poet expresses this point in his poems by putting himself in others' shoes. Ducks swimming freely in the river are the first to feel the temperature rise of the spring water, and use the "warm" touch to supplement the visual impression of the spring water in the painting.
This poem not only reflects the poet's careful observation of nature, but also reflects the poet's philosophical thinking about life. Ducks know that the Chunjiang River is warm when they get into the water, which makes sense.
These two poems 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 go up, which makes use of the characteristic that puffer fish only go upstream when the spring river warms up, and further highlights the word "spring". This is something that is not in the picture, and it is difficult to reach with a brush, but the poet successfully "looks like the present" and injects the breath and vitality of spring into the whole picture.
Although the painting "It's time for the puffer fish to come up" does not describe the action of the puffer fish, the poet knows that "the puffer fish is coming up" from the crazy growth of Artemisia selengensis and the germination of reeds, thus drawing the image of dolphins going up along the river in bloom on the Chunjiang River to make up for the deficiency.
The second poem, entitled "Flying in a Wild Goose", shows people's feelings about flying in the north and shows the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River in spring. The second poem in this group is generally unknown, but its creative level is also very high.
"Two couples are going to break up, and Yiyi is still like going back to the north." This sentence sums up Hui Chong's "Flying in a Wild Goose". The geese fly north, and some geese are reluctant to give up the beauty of this spring and almost leave the team. And using anthropomorphic techniques, the reluctant geese are compared to "returning to the north", which makes the content in the painting more vivid.
"I know from a distance that there are many snowstorms in the desert, and I am waiting for the spring in Jiangnan." It is also anthropomorphic, giving the geese in the north a human touch. Goose is reluctant to leave because the south is warmer than the north, so the poet wrote, Goose thinks the north is very cold, and knows that the desert is windy and snowy from a distance; In the last sentence, the poet further wrote that the geese hope to stay in Jiangnan for a few more days.
The application of this personification technique has changed Hui Chong's painting from "freeze-frame" to "video", and the scene of geese flying north is full of human emotions, which is quite innovative.
Brief introduction of the author
Su Shi (1037-1101) was a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi yue Zhan, no Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now Jiaxian County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, extremely high talent and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting.
His writing style, Wang Yang, is unrestrained and fluent, and he is also called Ou Su with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poetry is fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and its artistic expression is unique. Together with Huang Tingjian, they are called Su Huang. The uninhibited school has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji.
Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and it can be innovative. Writing with a pen is ups and downs, full of childlike interest. And Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang are also called Song Sijia. Painting is the same as literature. In painting, we advocate spirit likeness and "literati painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.