Two Poems on the Evening Scene of Spring River in Huichong
Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo, the ducks are the first to know the warmth of the water in the spring river. The piper artemisia is full of reed buds, and it is the time when the river dolphin wants to go up.
Two by two, the returning birds want to break away from the flock, and they still look like people returning from the north. I know that the desert is full of wind and snow, so I'm waiting for half a month's spring in the south of the Yangtze River.
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The peach blossoms outside the bamboo forest are already open, ducks are playing in the river, they are the first to notice that the river is warming up in early spring. The riverbanks are already full of Artemisia vulgaris, and asparagus has begun to bud, so this is the time for river dolphins to swim upstream from the sea back into the river.
The geese fly north, as do those who are returning to their homes in the north, but are so attached that they almost fall off the wagon. Not yet returned to the north, already know that the deserts there are windy and snowy, it is better to continue to spend half of the spring in the south of the river.
In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), Song Zhezong assumed the throne and recalled Su Shi, who had originally retired to Changzhou, and sent him to Dengzhou, and soon recalled him to Bianjing. Here, he saw these two paintings of Evening Scene on the Spring River. These two paintings were painted by Huichong. Hui Chong was one of the nine great monks of the early Song Dynasty, a monk from Jianyang, Fujian, who could write poetry and paint.
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"Three or Two Branches of Peach Blossoms Beyond the Bamboo," Su Shi looked out from the sparse bamboo forest and saw a few branches of peach blossoms swaying in the spring breeze. Red and green against each other, very striking. In early spring, the peach blossom first released, implying infinite spring. "Ducks are the first to recognize the warmth of the spring river", the picture moves from the bamboo forest on the bank to the river, ducks are playing on the river, spring has not yet arrived, the river is still with the cold, but the ducks are the first to notice the warmth of the river.
The above two verses are the most well-known, Su Shi from a painting, to express to us the ducks know the warmth of the water "this kind of appeal to the feeling and imagination of things, it is a difficult thing, this feeling, the painting is actually very difficult to convey to the people, but Su Shi did. Moreover, ducks live in the water all year round, it can be said that as long as the lake is not frozen, ducks will play in the water, therefore, the first to notice the warmth of the river is the ducks is also very reasonable. Also in this point, the deceased slightly controversial: Mao Qiling "West River Poetry" recorded that he and Wang Jiaomen Song poetry, Wang Jiaomen cited this line of poetry, said: "not far better than the Tang Dynasty?" Mao Qiling said, "This is just like the Tang but failed to do so: 'The birds know the way to the flowers first' is also a line of the Tang. Finding the way in the people, forewarned in the bird, in order to the bird to learn between the flowers, so also. This 'first', the first person. If the duck, who is first? Things in the water, must first and duck, delusion!" Wang Shizhen "fishing and ocean poetry," also said: "geese also know first, how do you know to say duck?" We often say that art comes from life, higher than life, like the above argument, can be said to not understand this truth. Yuan Mei, in his Essay on Poetry, retorted, "If you hold this view of poetry, then every sentence of the Three Hundred Psalms is not true." In his Essence of Song Poetry, he said that Mao Qiling was "not really a rude father, but a strong speaker".
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We continue to talk about the following poem, "Artemisia vulgaris is full of reed buds,", full of artemisia vulgaris, short reed buds, yellow and green, presenting us with a spring, thriving scene. "It is when the dolphin wants to go up", the characteristic of the dolphin is that it only goes upstream when the water of the river is warm in spring, Su Shi borrowed this characteristic to further highlight the word "spring". These two lines have also been praised. In the picture "Evening Scene of Spring River", there is no puffer fish, which was imagined by Su Shi himself through Artemisia vulgaris and reed buds, is it too far-fetched? In fact not, we all know that puffer fish is poisonous, easy to cause death, but this is for our celestial dynasty gourmet, this is not a problem, the song dynasty zhang lei "mingdao magazine" on the record: "yu when guarding the danyang and xuancheng, see the natives households eat it (puffer fish), and its cooking can not be, but with piper betel artemisia, dill bamboo shoots, woad three things, cloud the most appropriate, with woad to seep the paste ear, and have not tasted the dead! ." The meaning is that using the above three things as condiments, you can detoxify the puffer fish. (Reed buds that is, Dixie buds) Su Shi, as our recognized gourmet, by Artemisia vulgaris, reed buds think of puffer fish is very reasonable.
The first song is about ducks and the second is about geese. In winter, the geese will fly to the south for the winter, late winter and early spring, the geese will fly back to the north. Su Shi seized this characteristic of migratory birds and compared the geese to people returning to the north, giving them human feelings. The geese are reluctant to fly back to the north, almost fell out of the line, that is because they do not give up the warmth of the south. Here still have to admire Su Shi's imagination, from the geese do not give up the warmth of the south, Su Shi imagined that it is because the north is too cold, where the desert snow and wind. Finally, he also imagines the geese's inner expectation to stay in the warm south for a few more days.
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Pictures, is a good picture fixed in a moment, can make people retained the good memories. The shortcoming is that the picture is fixed, Su Shi through the assignment of poetry, using his overpowering imagination, the silent, static picture into a sound, active poetic realm, to give the imagery in the picture of the human feelings, the picture frame to expand the scene outside the frame, Su Shi's artistic associations to broaden the world outside of the visual expression of the painting, so that the poetry, the meaning of the picture is a perfect combination.
The second poem is actually very well written, just because the first one is too famous, overshadowed by its sharpness, resulting in it is little known, I have to say it is a pity.
The second poem is also well-written, but because the first one is so famous, it overshadows its sharpness, resulting in it being little known. Fisherman's Poetry: "Po's poem 'Artemisia vulgaris is full of reed buds, and it is the time when the blowfish wants to go up' is not only wonderful in its style, but also in the fact that the blowfish will become fat if it eats artemisia and reed, and it is also like Mei Shengyu's poem 'Dixie buds are born on the spring continent, and poplar blossoms fly along the spring shore', without any generalization of the words. ."