Jiang Xue
Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan
Thousands of mountains and birds flew away,
Ten thousand paths of people disappeared.
A man in a boat with a coir rain hat fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
On all the mountains, the birds are all cut off; on all the roads, there is no trace of human beings.
In a lone boat on the river, the fisherman wears a raincoat and a hat; fishing alone, he is not afraid of ice and snow.
The poet only used twenty words to describe a quiet and cold picture: on the river with heavy snow, an old fisherman fished 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.