“Inscription on Fishing in the Snow on a Cold River” is a poem inscribed on a painting, written in the tenth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1884), and is one of the author’s early representative works. The painting’s theme is obviously taken from Liu Zongyuan’s poem “Snow on the River”, which reads “A lone old man in a straw hat and raincoat is fishing in the snow on a cold river alone in a boat”, but Shi’s inscription on the painting is quite different from Liu’s poem.
《题寒江钓雪图》是一首题画诗，作于清光绪十年（1884），为作者早期代表作之一。画意显然取自柳宗元《江雪》诗的“孤舟蓑笠翁，独钓寒江雪”，而释氏的题诗则与柳诗大异其趣。
《题寒江钓雪图》 敬安
垂钓板桥东，雪压蓑衣冷。
江寒水不流，鱼嚼梅花影。
Written on the Painting “Cold River Snow”
Ching An
Dropped a hook, east of Plankbridge.
Now snow weighs down his straw rain gear.
It’s freezing.
The River’s so cold the water’s stopped running:
fish nibble the shadows of plum blossoms.
