It means: vilen on both sides of the strait is full of colorful flowers, which makes all the boats red. Along the levee covered with elms, you can walk for half a day and reach a place hundreds of miles away.

Source: Xiang Zhong-Song: Chen

Flying flowers on both sides of the strait, red boats, and a hundred miles of fish embankment wind for most of the day.

Lying on the boat and looking at the clouds in the sky, they didn't seem to move, but they didn't know that the clouds and I were moving eastward.

Vilen on both sides of the strait is full of colorful flowers, reflecting all the ships. Along the elm-covered levee, it takes half a day to reach hundreds of miles away. Lying on the boat, looking at the white clouds all over the sky, they seem motionless, but they don't know that the clouds and I are heading east.

Extended data

1, Xiang Zhong's creative background

This poem was written in A.D.117 (the seventh year of Zheng He). The author Ren Man entered Beijing through fragrance. The poet's trip was due to the expiration of Professor Kaide's term and went to Beijing to be elected, so he was full of ambition and relaxed. So I wrote this poem to express my feelings on the spot.

2. Appreciation of Xiang Zhong's works

This poem expresses the poet's long-distance journey through the description of the scenery such as sailing eastward by boat and colorful falling flowers dancing with the wind in Yuan Ye on both sides of the strait, which is very relaxed and comfortable.

The ancients were most afraid of headwinds when sailing. When the author meets the downwind, he will "lie" on the boat and enjoy the scenery along the way. The author knows that the ship moves very fast. If the "clouds" in the sky really don't move, they should move backwards like the "elm dike" when lying and watching. Then, the author suddenly realized that the clouds in the sky, like himself, are eastward.