Sunday, May 07, 2017

The duck knows

Hui Cong's Spring River Evening Scene by Su Dongbuo

Outside the bamboo grove, two or three branches of peach blossoms.
Spring river water warming, the duck knows first.
Basil covers the ground, reed shoots slight.
Time for blow fish to swim upstream.

Written for Hui Cong's painting entitled Spring River Evening Scene, the painting does not feature a blow fish, but the other plants and signs evoke thoughts of the blow fish for Su Dongbuo, who enjoyed eating delicacies.

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