The sunshine of the first month shines warmly on the body, and the gentle wind gently blows on the face. I sat on the beach of the Qingchuan River in Hanyang, leisurely admiring the spring water in front of me.
There are cruise ships, cargo ships, and birds on the river. White gulls flock to flocks, flaunt their wings, hover over the water, and they occasionally land on the surface of the water, or catch fish or rest, and even take off directly from the water, but they are never seen diving into the water like ospreys and pelicans. Looking at them from a distance, the gulls and birds looked like white pigeons and fluttering butterflies. One spring, I returned to Wuhan from jiujiang, and at the stern of the boat, someone tore the food into small pieces and threw it into the river, and immediately there were gulls swooping down to grab food, attracting flocks of gulls and birds to follow the boat, which was quite spectacular. The river gull is the spirit above this spring river, and it is the first to perceive the warmth of the river.
There are also many tourists along the river, and while enjoying the spring day, curious people even go down to the nearest part of the river to get close to the river. In the nearshore waters, there are also male and female athletes dressed in colorful clothes, driving small boats up the current, and they have begun to train for the New Year. There are also swimmers who chop waves in the water. They are all athletes in this mighty spring water.
This is the lowest water level of the Yangtze River in the year, the level of the river is slow and bright, glowing with blue light, the sky is also blue and blue, and several clean white clouds are like smoke, which can be described as the color of the river and the sky, which is pleasant. In this blue background, there is also the most delicate green, which is the latest color of the willow trees nourished by the spring breeze and the river water, and also dyes the nearby river water, which sets off the beauty of the houses on the shore. The Harukawa Pavilion, with its cornices and arches and pink walls and green tiles and red columns, looms in the clouds of spring willows, like a fairyland.
The flowers on both sides of the river also bloom, first red or white plum blossoms, then pink and white cherry blossoms, etc., and then there will be a variety of flowers shining, decorating the banks of the river, stunning your eyes. The Yellow Crane Tower on the top of Snake Mountain on the opposite bank is towering over the greenery of the sea of flowers, majestically overlooking the river that never stops day and night, while behind me is the lush Turtle Mountain, which has a towering TV tower and a story of the Three Kingdoms that has traveled through thousands of years...
I know that this river comes from the southwest, flows through the three towns, flows to the southeast, and runs to the sea; this river flows through every bridge in jiangcheng, such as the golden Yangsi Port Bridge, the orange parrot island bridge, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge... On this sunny day, you can see several bridges at a glance. The first bridge of the Yangtze River is like a blue dragon, and the second bridge of the Yangtze River is like a silver giant qin; the bridge, the river, the blue sky, the mountains, the pavilions, the green trees and flowers constitute the most beautiful picture of spring, which makes people marvel. A train passes by the bridge, and the people on board will definitely look through the window to see the river, just as I was shocked by the mighty Dajiang Bridge when I first came to Wuhan thirty years ago. Spring goes from spring to spring and back, and the deceased is like this, not giving up day and night; fortunately, the years are not wasted, fortunately, the motherland is changing with each passing day, and fortunately, we have overcome all kinds of difficulties and dangers.
I looked up at the sky, and in the northeast I saw the moon, which was a pale crescent shadow; strangely, it appeared in this bright daylight. Will it appear tonight? If the bright moon can hang in the night sky tonight, it will be the spring river flower moon night. In my imagination, at that time, about three or two friends could be on the Harukawa Pavilion or the Yellow Crane Tower, watching a river of spring water, listening to a guzheng or pipa or spring flute, and then raising a glass to invite the bright moon, I would have raced the gods and immortals to the ancients, because I was in an era of great harmony and prosperity.
February 21, 2021