2. On all the hills, the birds have disappeared, and there are no traces of people on all the roads. On a lonely boat on the river, an old man in a bamboo hat was fishing alone on the cold river covered with heavy snow.
This poem was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (AD 805-8 15). During Yongzhen Yuan's reign (805), Liu Zongyuan took part in Yongzhen Innovation Movement initiated by Wang Group, and soon the reform failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. The oppression of the sinister environment did not crush him. He expresses the value and ideal interest of life through poetry.