Xue Jiang
Liutang Zongyuan
There are no birds flying over those mountains, and there are no traces of people in those paths.
A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice.
[Notes]
1. This is a poem written by Liu Zongyuan after he was demoted to Yongzhou. He used a fisherman fishing in the Han River to express his loneliness and depression.
2. extinction: extinction.
3. Birds fly away: There are no birds in the sky.
4. Path: Path.
5. Trace: Trace. Nobody was there, nobody was there.
6. Suoli (Su is not Li): Suoyi, a hat.
[Brief analysis]
Most of Liu Zongyuan's landscape poems describe a relatively cold realm, in order to express his anguish and indignation of persecution and relegation. This poem depicts a fisherman fishing alone in a cold river, expressing the indomitable character of the poet Yongzhen despite his loneliness after the failure of innovation.
The first two sentences "There are no birds in a hundred mountains and no footprints in a thousand paths" describe the snow scene, while "Qian Shan" and "Wanjing" are all exaggerations. There must be birds in the mountains and people on the road; But "birds fly away" and "people disappear" The poet used the scene of birds traveling far away to render a desolate and lonely realm. Although the word "snow" is not used directly, readers seem to see the overwhelming snow and feel the biting cold. This is a reflection of the bad political environment at that time.
Three or four sentences "a boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow" depict the image of a fisherman fishing alone in the cold river. In a place where there is heavy snow and almost no life, there is a lonely boat carrying a fisherman in hemp fiber and fishing alone on the snowy river. This fisherman's image is obviously a portrayal of the poet himself, which expresses the poet's lofty spirit of perseverance and integrity despite his loneliness after the failure of political reform.
About the author: Liu Zongyuan (773-8 19), a native of Hedong (now Yongji County, Shandong Province). Outstanding thinker and essayist. The achievements of poetry are also very high.
Jiang Xue, a work written by Liu Zongyuan after he was relegated to Yongzhou, has always been read by people. This little poem expresses ambition. With extremely refined writing, the author outlines a fisherman fishing alone on the snowy river, artistically summarizes the sinister political environment he was in at that time, and shows his strong will not to be afraid, not to yield to the dark forces and his noble quality of not being in cahoots.
This poem was written during my life in Yongzhou. This is a rhyming five-character quatrain. At first glance, it looks like a landscape painting: there are no pedestrians and birds in the cold snowy river, only an old man is alone, fishing silently. However, if we carefully taste, this clean, quiet and cold picture symbolizes the independent, clean and lonely life realm of the world.
The artistic conception of this poem is very particular, and the poet uses contrast and contrast: the vastness of Qianshan sets off the loneliness and smallness; The silence of bird extinction contrasts with the old man's interest in fishing; The silence of the picture sets off the surging emotions of the characters. The lonely and independent old man is actually a portrayal of the poet's mood.
The scenery written in the poem is: peaks, no birds, no paths, and no human footprints. The whole land was covered with snow, and an old fisherman in hemp fiber and hat was fishing alone on the Han River. Look, what a vivid picture it is to fish alone in the cold river! What does this picture mean? As we all know, there will never be "pure" landscape poems or landscape paintings in works of art, and in them, the author's feelings and realistic content will always be more or less reflected. In fact, the best in landscape poetry, though full of flowers and birds, is full of mist, but every word must be like a scene, and the sound and taste are always sentimental. This poem is no exception. As long as you know Liu Zongyuan's life experience, you can see this.