There are no traces of birds in thousands of mountains and ridges; there are no traces of pedestrians on thousands of roads. On a lonely boat, a fisherman wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat was fishing alone in the wind and snow.
Jiang Xue
Author Liu Zongyuan? Tang Dynasty
Thousands of birds have disappeared, and thousands of people have disappeared.
A man in a lone boat with a coir raincoat fishing fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
Appreciation
This is a five-character quatrain with oblique rhyme and is one of Liu Zongyuan's masterpieces. It was probably written when he was exiled to Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan).
After Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, he was greatly stimulated and depressed mentally. Therefore, he used to describe the landscape and sing about the fishermen living in seclusion among the mountains and rivers to express his noble and aloof emotions. , to express his depression and anguish of political frustration. Therefore, Liu Zongyuan's landscape poems have a distinctive feature, which is that the objective realm is relatively secluded, while the poet's subjective mood appears relatively lonely, and sometimes even too lonely and too deserted. , without any trace of human fireworks. This is obviously inseparable from his life experiences and the development and changes of his entire thoughts and feelings.
This song "Jiang Snow" is exactly like this. The poet only used twenty words to bring us to a quiet and cold place. What appears before the readers' eyes is this picture: On a river covered with heavy snow, an old fisherman fishes alone in a small boat in the middle of the cold river.
What the poet shows readers is the following: the world between heaven and earth is so pure and silent, spotless and silent; the life of the fisherman is so noble, and the character of the fisherman is so aloof. In fact, this is a fantasy realm created by Liu Zongyuan because he hated the society of the Tang Dynasty, which was declining day by day.
Extended information:
Jiang Xue’s creative background
In the first year of Yongzhen reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan participated in the political reform movement led by Wang Shuwen. Due to the joint counterattack of conservative forces and eunuchs, the reform failed. Therefore, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, which is known as the "Southern Wasteland". So, with deep anger, he wrote this famous poem that is widely praised.
Reference: Jiang Xue-Baidu Encyclopedia