Jiang Xue is a five-character quatrain written by Liu Zongyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, in Yongzhou. Typical generalizations are used in the poem, and thousands of trails in Qianshan Mountain and the extinction of people and birds, which can best represent the cold in Shan Ye, are chosen to describe the scene of mountains closed by heavy snow and freezing in the cold.
Then draw an image of a fisherman fishing alone in the cold river to express the poet's unyielding and deep loneliness after being hit. The whole poem is unique in conception, concise in language and rich in meaning.
Original and vernacular translation of works
There are no birds in a hundred mountains, and there are no footprints in a thousand paths. A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice. Birds can't fly in the mountains, and people can't be seen on the road. On a lonely boat on the river, an old man wearing a bamboo hat was fishing alone on the cold river.
The creative background of the work
This poem was written by Jiang Xue when Liu Zongyuan was exiled to Yongzhou. During Yongzhenyuan's reign (805), Liu Zongyuan participated in the Yongzhenguan reform movement initiated by Wang Group, and carried out political measures to suppress internal officials, control other provinces and safeguard national unity.
However, due to the joint opposition of reactionary forces, the reform soon failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. In fact, he lived a life of "prisoner" under control and house arrest.
The oppression of the sinister environment did not crush him. Being at a political disadvantage, he expressed the value and ideal interest of life through his poems. This poem is one of the masterpieces.
Literary appreciation of works
The poet used only twenty words to describe a quiet and cold picture: on the snowy river, a boat and an old fisherman were fishing alone on the cold river.
What the poet shows his readers is this: the world is so pure and silent, spotless and silent; The fisherman's life is noble, and the fisherman's character is detached.
In fact, this is a fantasy realm created by the poet because he hated the declining society of the Tang Dynasty at that time. Compared with the characters in Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden, he is more ethereal and far away from the world.