"Artemisia sphaerocephala has short reed buds all over the ground, just as the puffer fish is about to come up" means that the beach is covered with Artemisia sphaerocephala, asparagus begins to sprout, and the puffer fish is about to swim back into the river from the sea. This sentence comes from Su Shi's poem "Scenery on the Riverside of Hui Chong", which was an inscription for Hui Chong's duck play when Su Shi was in Jiangyin in the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085). Two original poems.

Hui Chong was a famous painter and monk in Song Dynasty, which was one of the so-called "Nine Monks" by Ouyang Xiu. He is good at painting poems, especially geese, geese, egrets and small scenes. The night view of the riverside is his masterpiece. Su Shi painted early spring and February vividly with a few strokes.

Creation background

Hui Chong Riverside Night Scene is a poem written by Su Shi for Hui Chong's Duck Drama when he was in Jiangyin in the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085). Su Shi's poems on paintings are rich in content and widely used, covering figures, landscapes, birds and animals, flowers, wood and stones, religious stories and many other aspects. These works clearly reflect Su Shi's bold, fresh and lively artistic style, and show Su Shi's superb ability to master the artistic laws of poetry and painting flexibly and freely. And this "Hui Chong Riverside Night Scene" has always been regarded as the masterpiece of Su Shi's paintings.