In front of Xisai Mountain, egrets fly, and peach blossoms and flowing water make mandarin fish fat. It means: egrets are flying freely in front of Xisai Mountain, peach blossoms are in full bloom on the river bank, spring water is rising, and mandarin fish are plump in the water.

From: Tang Dynasty·Zhang Zhihe's "Yu Ge Zi·Flying Egrets in Front of Xisai Mountain"

In front of Xisai Mountain, egrets fly, and peach blossoms and flowing water are fat to mandarin fish.

Green bamboo hats, green coir raincoats, slanting wind and drizzle do not need to return.

Translation: Egrets are flying freely in front of Xisai Mountain, peach blossoms are in full bloom on the river banks, the spring water is rising, and mandarin fish are plump in the water. The fisherman, wearing a green bamboo hat and a green raincoat, braved the slanting wind and drizzle, fishing happily without having to go home.

Yugezi: It was originally the name of a tune. Later, people wrote lyrics based on it, and it became the name of a lyric brand.

Xisei Mountain: To the west of today’s Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province.

Egret: a white water bird.

Peach Blossom Flowing Water: The season when peach blossoms bloom is when the spring water rises, commonly known as Peach Blossom Flood or Peach Blossom Water. Mandarin fish: commonly known as "flower fish" and "mandarin fish". Flat, large mouth, thin scales, yellow-green, delicious taste.

Ruo Li: a bamboo hat made of bamboo strips and Ruo leaves.

Extended information:

Creative background

In September of the seventh year of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty (772), Yan Zhenqing was appointed governor of Huzhou and took office the following year. Zhang Zhihe went to pay a visit in a boat. It was late spring, the peach blossoms were in bloom, and the mandarin fish were beautiful. They sang an impromptu harmony. Zhang Zhihe sang it first and wrote five lyrics. This song is one of them.

This poem was lost during the reign of Emperor Xianzong. In the third year of Changqing (823), Li Deyu visited it and recorded it in his "Xuanzhenzi Fishing Songs", and it has been circulated to this day.

This poem embodies the author's love for freedom and nature in the beautiful waterside scenery and the ideal life of fishermen. What is more attractive to readers in the poem is not the fisherman who is calm and contented with the wind and rain, but the picture of the spring river in Jiangxiang during the Peach Blossom Flood in February with rising water and misty rain.

Green mountains in the rain, fishing boats on the river, egrets in the sky, and red peaches on both sides of the bank. The colors are bright but soft, and the atmosphere is peaceful but full of vitality. This not only reflects the author's artistic ingenuity, but also reflects his lofty, unconventional, leisurely and refined taste.