A bald old man is wearing a hat.
Avoid the world, often (not) officials, and catch the shore (river).
Pusha is full of songs, and the mountains and moons are quiet.
Stay in the turbulent (and) wrasse, singing autumn rejuvenation.
Holding bamboo on the shore of Hunan, if the fire is on the land, it will be rewarded.
Green water (rice) fragrant rice, green lotus (bag) purple scale.
I am still happy in the middle, and what I want is (all) true.
And those who (alone) laugh awake face more suffering.
Li Qi wrote ancient poems in Tang Dynasty.
Fishing Songs is a Tang poem written by Li Qi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, with the theme of fisherman. The whole poem simply tells the fisherman's daily life. The tone and syntax of poetry are between five-character ancient poems and regular poems, which are different from five-character ancient poems in the Six Dynasties and regular poems in the Tang Dynasty.
Poetic interpretation?
Fishermen are used as literary themes, and the source is very old. According to legend, Jiang Shang, a squire, was still fishing in Panxi at the age of 80. He was invited by Zhou Wenwang as a strategist, overthrew the corrupt Zhou Wang regime in Shang Dynasty and became the founding hero of Zhou Dynasty. From then on, the literary allusion of Panxi Fisherman represents a hermit who embraces the all-rounder of civil and military affairs. Zhuang Zhou wrote an essay "Fisherman", which criticized the hypocrisy of Confucianism through a dialogue between a fisherman and Confucius.
Qu Yuan also wrote a short essay "Fisherman". By talking with a fisherman, he showed the moral quality of leading an honest and clean life without being insulted, but the fisherman laughed at him for being arrogant and unable to rise and fall with the world. Therefore, in literature, fishermen also represent a personality of wandering around, self-reliance and not going out to work.
Tao Yuanming wrote a poem "Peach Blossom Garden", which described that a fishing industry in Wu Lingren discovered a peaceful society isolated from the troubled times. So the fisherman in literature has a new meaning, and he has become an explorer to discover the ideal society. Poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, such as Chu Guangxi, Gao Shi, Cen Can and Li Jie, all wrote The Fisherman's Poetry, and their themes probably inherited these traditions.
Zhang, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, also wrote five "fisherman's ci", which created a new form and later became the originator of ci. In addition, there are many poems about fishermen's life, which I will talk about in the future.
Li Qi's "Fishing Songs" can help us understand that five-character ancient poetry evolved into a special form of five-character arrangement in the early Tang Dynasty. Because the tone and syntax of this poem are between the five-character ancient poems and the metrical poems, it is different from the five-character ancient poems of the Six Dynasties and not the metrical poems of the Tang Dynasty. The title is Song. Poetry is not a line. Formally, this poem can be said to be a "four unlike".