Meaning: an old man wearing a bamboo hat.
"Snow on the River" is a five-character quatrain composed by Liu Zongyuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, in Yongzhou. Original text:
Jiang Xue
Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan
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.
Translation:
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.
Extended information:
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. The reform failed due to the joint counterattack of conservative forces and eunuchs.
As a result, 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.
Appreciation:
The first two sentences "Thousands of mountains and birds have disappeared, and thousands of paths have disappeared" to describe the snow scene. "Thousands of mountains" and "ten thousand paths" are both exaggerations. There should have been birds in the mountains and people on the road, but "the birds disappeared" and "the traces of people disappeared".
The poet uses the scene of birds fleeing and pedestrians to disappear to render a desolate, cold and lonely realm. Although he does not directly use the word "snow", the reader seems to have seen the overwhelming snow and felt the cold and cold weather. Human chill. This was a reflection of the harsh political environment at that time.
The third and fourth sentences, "A lone man in a boat with a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow on the cold river" depict the image of a fisherman fishing alone in the cold river. In a place where there is heavy snow and almost no life, there is a lonely fisherman. There was a small boat with a fisherman on it, wearing a raincoat.
Fishing alone on the snowy river. The image of this fisherman is obviously a portrayal of the poet himself, twisting and turning to express the poet's tenacious, fearless, arrogant and noble spiritual outlook despite his loneliness after the failure of political reform.
This is a picture of fishing in the snowy mountains. The white snow covers thousands of mountains, roads and paths. In the vast wilderness, there are no shadows of birds or traces of pedestrians. The river and sky are the same color, spotless, and it is a world of ice and snow that can't be seen at a glance!
Snow is still falling on the ground. A quiet and cold atmosphere envelopes everything, and even the air is almost solid. However, on this seemingly frozen scene, a lonely boat appeared. On the boat, a man was wearing a raincoat.
The old fisherman wearing a hat is holding a fishing rod and fishing alone in the middle of the river. The fisherman concentrated on fishing. He forgot the cold, the time, and the vast crystal clear snow world that surrounded him.
His raincoat and bamboo hat full of ice and snow tell us that he has been fishing in this cold river and snow for a long time. After reading the complete poem, the aloof and extraordinary image of the old fisherman suddenly appears in front of us. Behind him is the vast, white world of ice and snow.