Two or three peach blossoms outside the bamboo forest and ducks in the water first noticed the warm spring. The beach is covered with wormwood, asparagus is beginning to sprout, and puffer fish are preparing to swim upstream from the sea back to the river.

There are two or three peach blossoms outside the bamboo forest, and ducks swim in the water. They first noticed the warming of the river in early spring. The beach is covered with Artemisia selengensis, even the reeds are sprouting, and the puffer fish is about to swim from the sea to the rivers.

Hui Chong Riverside Night Scene is a poem written by Su Shi for Hui Chong in Bianjing (now Kaifeng) in the eighth year of Zongshen Yuanfeng (1085). This poem was written in Jiangyin.

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Artemisia selengensis is covered with short reed buds, which is the time when puffer fish want to fuck. These two poems are still closely related to Early Spring. Artemisia selengensis and dwarf reed buds are yellow and green, gorgeous and charming, showing a scene of spring and prosperity.

The puffer fish wants to go up, which makes use of the characteristic that puffer fish only go upstream when the spring river warms up, and further highlights the word "spring". This is something that is not in the picture, and it is difficult to reach with a brush, but the poet successfully "looks like the present" and injects the breath and vitality of spring into the whole picture.

Zhang Lei, a student of Su Shi, also recorded in Ming Dow magazine that the Yangtze natives eat puffer fish, but they cook them with Artemisia selengensis and bamboo shoots, that is, reed bracts and leeks, which they think are the best match with puffer fish.