Hui Chong's Night Scene of the Spring River
Author: Su Shi
There are three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo.
Spring river plumbing duck prophet.
Artemisia selengensis has short buds all over the ground,
It is the time when the puffer fish wants to fuck.
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Hui Chong: A famous monk in Northern Song Dynasty, good at poetry and painting. He painted the evening scene of the riverside. There are two paintings, one is a duck show and the other is a flying goose. There are also two poems by Su Shi. This is a poem about duck play.
Artemisia selengensis: A perennial herb growing in lowlands, with pale yellow flowers and stems four or five feet high. It is tender, crisp and edible at birth. Dictionary explanation: perennial herbs with light yellow flowers can be used as medicine.
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.
Top: refers to fish swimming against the current.
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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 has been covered with Artemisia selengensis and asparagus has begun to sprout. This is the season when puffer fish return from the sea and lay eggs in the river.
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On the other side of the bamboo forest, several peach trees are blooming.
This is a warm scenery: looking across the sparse bamboo forest, 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.
Ducks first know when the river gets warmer in spring.
In the spring of a river, ducks are playing; The information that the river is warming, they first noticed it. A duck knows how to warm water, which can't be reflected by painting alone. Poetry is expressed. Is it duck prophet water heating? Everything in the aquarium is famous for its warmth and coldness. The poet wrote this way to match the scenery in the painting, and actually expressed his joy and praise for the arrival of spring. There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty, "A bird knows its way among flowers and is a prophet", which is similar to this sentence. This poem is very philosophical, and now we often quote it when referring to a new situation or news that is known in advance.
The beach is overgrown with wormwood and asparagus has just sprouted.
Everything is new in spring. By the river, lush Artemisia sphaerocephala covered the ground, and reeds also sprouted short buds. These seven words are not the general chanting of scenery, but the poet's accurate description of the modality of these two plants through careful observation, and none of them are idle. Wang Shizhen, a poet in A Qing, praised this poem in Yu Yang's Poems, saying: "Poe's poem ... is not only beautiful, but also like Mei's poem" Spring shoots in spring, flowers fly on the spring shore "without any words."
It's time for puffer fish to go upstream.
Mei, a poet in the Song Dynasty, described this scene and said: "The puffer fish is in the right place, and counting fish and shrimp is not expensive." The first three sentences of this poem describe the scenery in Hui Chong's paintings, and the last sentence is an impromptu association. In this way, the author makes the whole picture more perfect, giving people the joy that winter has passed and spring is coming to the world. The author not only participated in the painting, but also went out of the painting to show all the unreasonable things in the painting. If all four sentences in the poem are simple descriptions of scenery, the form will be relatively dull. The treatment of the last sentence not only makes the whole poem lively, but also greatly enriches the artistic conception of poetry and painting.
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Hui Chong was a monk and painter in the Song Dynasty. This poem was inscribed by Su Shi in Hui Chong's Moonlit Night on a Spring River. Hui Chong's original painting has been lost, and some versions of this poem are called "The Night Scene of the Spring River", which can't be verified now.
Vivid painting makes people have a specific visual feeling, but it can only show a specific picture and has certain limitations. A good poem, although it has no visible image, can attract readers into the beautiful artistic conception formed by the poet's unique conception and visual 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.
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 was covered with Artemisia selengensis and asparagus began to sprout. At this time, puffer fish is a good time to go public and can be sold in the market.
A good poem on painting should not only be tied to the theme of painting, but also be limited to the content of the picture. It should not only be able to reproduce painting, but also be able to jump out of painting and create new things, so that painting does not lose its independent artistic life. Su Shi's poems can be said to have done this. The first three sentences of the poem are chanting the scenery, and the last sentence is the association caused by the scenery. The whole poem is like a poet's improvisation, and the image is wonderful and natural. In fact, the first three sentences are not exactly the same In the second sentence, the words "water heating" (temperature) and "duck prophet" (perception) cannot be drawn directly. Poetry can be described as picturesque, but the physical properties of poetry are too picturesque. This is because painting belongs to visual art, while poetry is a language art with absolute freedom of expression. The last sentence further develops the association, and on the basis of the objective description of the scenery in the first three sentences, it judges the seasonality of the scenery in the painting, thus adding a strong feeling of the beauty of the southern scenery, which is even more impossible for painting. Regarding the seasonal flavor of puffer fish, Mei wrote a poem "Fan Raozhou eats puffer fish": "Spring buds are born in spring, and poplars fly to the spring shore. When puffer fish, it is not expensive to count fish and shrimp. " Ouyang Xiu's Poem on June 1st said: "The puffer fish often swim in the water at dusk in spring, eating catkins and getting fat. Southerners often divide soup with buds, and the clouds are the most beautiful." Zhang Lei, a student of Su Shi, also recorded in Ming Dow magazine that the Yangtze natives eat puffer fish, "but cook it with Artemisia selengensis, bamboo shoots (that is, reed buds) and shepherd's purse", 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.
The poet first wrote from the side: In the early spring, the earth revived, and the bamboo forest has been dyed green by new leaves. What is more striking is that three or two peach blossoms have blossomed early on the peach tree, which are brightly colored and report the information of spring to people. Then, the poet's line of sight turned from the river to the middle of the river. Ducks that have been looking forward to the whole winter on the shore have already been unable to hold back and rushed to play in the water.
Then, the poet wrote from the middle of the river to the bank, observing and describing the scene of early spring in more detail: because of the moisture of the spring water, the Artemisia on the ground grew new branches and the reed buds spit out; All this shows the vitality of spring and makes people fondle it. The poet further believes that this is the season of puffer fish, which makes people daydream more widely. The whole poem is permeated with a strong and fresh breath of life.