"Sending a Fishing Wheel to Yan Shaofu in Yin, Hunan"
Author: Wen Tingyun of the Tang Dynasty
The shape of the fishing wheel is the same as that of the moon wheel, with a single cocoon and a shadow of smoke It seems empty.
If you send a message to a wild goose in Sanxiang, don’t send it to a fisherman thousands of miles away.
The sound of the canopy makes the rain drop from the Songjiang River at night, and the autumn leaves of the rhombus carry the wind through the mirror.
The hanging hook is still interesting all day long, and the rulers are mostly in the brocade scales.
Notes on "Sent to Yan Shaofu in Xiangyin to Beg for Fishing Wheels":
1. Xiangyin: the name of the county, which was established in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. In the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River, it is close to Dongting Lake. Today it belongs to Hunan. Shaofu: In the Tang Dynasty, county captains were called Shaofu.
2. Duyu: "Liezi·Tangwen": "He Zhan uses Duyu silk as fiber."
3. Sanxiang: There are different opinions, or it means that Xiangtan, Xiangyin, and Xiangxiang may refer to the three tributaries of the Xiangjiang River: Xiaoxiang, Haoxiang, and Yuanxiang. In ancient poems and articles, it generally refers to Dongting, Hunan and the Xiangjiang River Basin. Yanxin: Wild geese are migratory birds, and they fly south at certain times, so they are called Yanxin.
4. Mirror water: the water of Mirror Lake. Jinghu Lake is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province today.