Title of Work
Two Poems on the Evening Scene of the Spring River in Huichong
Alias of Work
Two Poems on the Dawn Scene of the Spring River in Huichong
Year of Composition
Beijing Song Dynasty
Provenance of Work
Su Dongpo's Complete Works
Literary Genre
Seven Sententious Poems
This poem is written by Su Dongpo, who is a member of the Chinese Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS). Original Text
Two Songs of Spring River Evening Scene by Huichong (1)
One of them
Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo, and the ducks are the first to know the warmth of the water of the Spring River.
The reed buds of Artemisia vulgaris are short (2), and it is the time for the river dolphin to go up (3).
The second
The two or two returning birds want to break through the flock (4), and they still seem to be returning to the north (5).
It is known that there are many winds and snowfalls in the desert (6), and I am waiting for half a month's spring in the south of the Yangtze River (7).
Notes
Lyrics
(1) Huichong (also known as Hui Chong): a monk from Jianyang, Fujian Province, one of the nine monks of the early Song Dynasty, who was capable of poetry and painting. Evening Scene of Spring River" is the name of the painting made by Huichong, **** two, one is a duck play, one is a flying geese picture. Qian Zhongshu's Selected Poems of the Song Dynasty (《宋诗選注》) is called "Dawn Scene". Many notebooks, useful "dawn scene", useful "evening scene", this from the "Dongpo complete collection" and before the Qing notebooks with "evening scene". These two poems are a reflection of the riverside scene when the author wanted to return to the south of Jingjiang in the spring of the eighth year of Yuanfeng's reign.
(2) Artemisia vulgaris: the name of the grass, there are Artemisia annua, Artemisia alba and other species. Poetry, "Yo Yo Deer Song, eat wild Artemisia." Reed buds: young buds of reeds, edible.
(3) puffer fish: a kind of fish, the scientific name of "triggerfish", meat flavor, but the ovaries and liver is highly toxic. Produced in China's coastal and some inland rivers. Every spring up against the river, spawning in fresh water. Up: refers to going up against the river.
(4) Returning Hong: returning geese. Breaking the flock: leaving the flying flock.
(5) Yiyi: the appearance of not giving up. Chu Si (楚辞): "Loves and relishes." Returning people: people who go home. Liu Changqing's poem "The dog barks at the wood door, and the man returns home at night in the wind and snow".
(6) Shuo Mo: the northern desert. Du Fu's poem: "Once I go to the Purple Terrace, I will be in the desert."
(7) More to be: to wait again; to pass again.
Vernacular translation
One of them
Two or three branches of peach blossoms were in bloom outside the bamboo forest, and ducks were playing in the water; they were the first to notice the warmth of the river in early spring. The river bank is already full of Artemisia vulgaris, and the asparagus is beginning to bud, while the river dolphin is just about to swim against the current from the sea back to the river.
The second
The geese flew northward, as those who are going back to their homes in the north do, but because of their attachment, they almost fell off the wagon. Even before they flew to the north, they already knew that the desert in the north was windy and snowy, so it was better to spend another half-month of spring time in Jiangnan.
Two Views of the Spring River in the Evening by Huichong
Background
Two Views of the Spring River in the Evening by Huichong
Two Views of the Spring River in the Evening by Huichong
This is a poem inscribed to the two views of the Spring River painted by Huichong in Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province) in the eighth year of Emperor Shen Zong's reign, Yuanfeng, in 1085, written by Su Shi. It is said that this poem was written in Jiangyin.