Travel Notes of Xide Xishan Banquet, Music Circle, West Mountain in Music Circle, Fu on Criminal Offences, Fu on People's Livelihood, Jiang Xue and On Snake Catchers.
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Liu Zongyuan is one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", a famous essayist, poet and philosopher. In terms of poetry, Liu Zongyuan's representative works are Jiang Xue and Fish Weng, both of which are quatrains and are highly sung.
Beginners and children will recite this well-known "Jiang Xue". The overall content is: thousands of birds fly away, and thousands of paths have no footprints; A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice. Although it mainly describes the winter scenery, it expresses Liu Zongyuan's inner anguish. Liu Zongyuan is very depressed in Liuzhou. He was unwilling to be blocked by his career, and his ideals and ambitions were not realized in time. But in the face of this dilemma, Liu Zongyuan could not get out of the bottleneck period, so he had to send his feelings between mountains and rivers.
Xiaoshitang story is Liu Zongyuan's most famous landscape travel notes, and it is also one of the eight stories in Yongzhou. In the story of Xiaoshitang, Liu Zongyuan mainly described the scenery around Xiaoshitang, highlighting the quiet environment of Xiaoshitang.
Liu Zongyuan described Xiaoshitang with a large number of vivid sentences, which reflected the author's leisurely mood and expressed Liu Zongyuan's thoughts and feelings of loving mountains and rivers and nature. In Liu Zongyuan's landscape travel prose, he also expressed his distress through beautiful scenery. He pinned his ambition on the landscape and reflected the beauty of nature from the side.
In addition, Liu Zongyuan has a large number of fables, such as Linjiang Elk and Guizhou Donkey. Liu Zongyuan satirized reality with fables.