In real life or work and study, everyone is familiar with those catchy ancient poems. To be precise, ancient poems should be called metrical poems, including rhymed poems and quatrains. Do you know what kind of ancient poetry can be considered a good ancient poetry? The following is the original text and appreciation of Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue" that I carefully compiled. Welcome to read and collect it.
Poetry
Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of people have disappeared.
Source
"Jiang Xue" by Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty.
Meaning 1
There is not a single bird in the mountains: there is not a single trace of a pedestrian on the numerous paths. Thousands and ten thousand: virtual reference, describing how many there are.
Meaning 2
There are no shadows of birds in the towering mountains; there is no footprint of a pedestrian on the alleys. Two lines of poems describe the deserted and lonely scene during heavy snowfall.
Usage examples
1. Used to describe the cold and lonely scene in winter. [Example] And their work is not easy either. They have to buy vegetables, transport grain, and transport coal from dozens of kilometers away. Especially when winter comes, the roads are difficult to travel. "(Zou Difan's "Ode to the Autumn Colors of Yumen")
2. Used to describe the desolate scene with no human habitation, no birds and beasts. [Example] They have the feeling that they have been abandoned by the noisy and noisy world at the end of the world. The place is so desolate and inhumane, there is a desolate landscape like "Thousands of mountains and birds have disappeared, and thousands of people have disappeared". (Li Neng's "The Group of Soldiers on the Horizon")
Complete poem
"Snow on the River"
[Tang Dynasty] Liu Zongyuan
Qianshan Birds will fly away, and all traces of people will disappear.
A man in a boat with a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
Comments
Jue: None, none.
Ten Thousand Paths: a virtual finger, referring to thousands of roads.
Human traces: human footprints.
Gu: Solitary.
Coir raincoat (suō lì): coir raincoat and bamboo hat. Li: a hat made of bamboo strips. ("Coi" means clothes used to prevent rain in ancient times; "笠" means hats used to prevent rain in ancient times.)
Du: alone.
Writing 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. Due to the joint counterattack of conservative forces and eunuchs, the reform failed. Therefore, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, known as the "Southern Wasteland". His official name was Sima, but he was actually a "criminal" who had no real power and was monitored by local officials. There was no room for him in the government office, so he had to settle in the west wing of Longxing Temple, a monk's temple.
Since Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, he was greatly stimulated and depressed mentally. He used to describe the landscape and sing about the fishermen living in seclusion among the mountains and rivers to express his noble and aloof emotions. Express his depression and anguish of being politically frustrated. So, he wrote this famous poem with deep anger
Appreciation of the whole poem
This is a popular poem written by Liu Zongyuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The small poem, one of his representative works, was written when the poet was demoted to Yongzhou (today's Lingling County, Hunan Province).
Since the failure of the vigorous "Yongzhen Reform" movement, the political life of Tang Dynasty society has become increasingly dark and decadent. Those who advocated reform and reform have been brutally attacked and persecuted. As those who had actively participated in the reform movement, Liu Zongyuan became the target of attack by the conservative forces. He was demoted to the remote and desolate Yongzhou. Although he was named "Sima", he was actually a "prisoner". He was politically uncared for and his life was full of hardships. He lived alone in this country. He spent ten years in exile there. During this period, the society of the Tang Dynasty went downhill day by day due to the rule of traitors and ministers. For an ideal and ambitious poet, this had to make him feel depressed and depressed. In order to resist and relieve the depression in his heart, he created a number of landscape poems while traveling around the mountains and rivers, expressing and revealing them. his true thoughts at the time. The poem "Jiang Snow" is his representative work in this period and in this aspect.
The whole poem has only four sentences and 20 words, but what is presented to the reader is a sketchy, spectacular, yet desolate and lonely picture. "Birds will fly away from thousands of mountains, and all traces of people will disappear from thousands of paths." This is writing a vision. Looking around, not a single bird appeared among the stacked mountains in the distance; not a single human figure could be seen on the criss-crossing paths in the vast wilderness. It was so completely silent! How could this be? It turns out that the poet was describing a snowy day in a severe cold winter. The heavy snow covered the entire nature, thousands of mountains and thousands of paths, leaving no trace of people or birds.
"A lone man in a boat and a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow in the cold river." These two sentences are about close shots.
It closely follows the previous two sentences. The fields were originally vast and covered with snow, and neither a bird nor a pedestrian's footprint could be seen. In this world of silence, people suddenly discovered that there On the vast river, there is a fishing boat moored, with an old man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat sitting on it, holding a fishing pole in the wind and snow. What a novel and cool picture! What a lonely and aloof old man! What is he fishing for in this snowy and cold weather? It turned out that he was fishing for "snow" alone.
This poem seems to be purely a description of the scenery. There are mountains, water, a lone boat and an old man in the four lines of the poem, which constitute a strange scene of a fisherman fishing alone in the snow in the cold river. The characters and scenery are integrated, poetic and picturesque, and wonderful. But people take a closer look at the old man who was completely fearless in the wind and snow and fished alone. Although the natural environment was so dangerous, he still went his own way and looked peaceful. Could it be that the poet could not be seen in him? My own shadow? This old fisherman who "fishes alone in the cold river snow" embodies the poet's depression and loneliness after his career failed, and also expresses the poet's perseverance and unyielding spirit. The Confucian belief that "if you are prosperous, you can help the world, and if you are poor, you can only take care of yourself" has always been the ideal of poets' life. Now he is exiled in the Southern Wilderness. Although he cannot make a difference politically, he will never collude with the dark forces. So the poet created an old man fishing with a pole in the snow, making people feel that he is so noble. It is majestic and unique, so free and easy, aloof and aloof from the world. This also reflects the poet's ambivalence of actively participating in the world and retreating to travel around in pursuit of transcendence.