Translation of "Jiang Xue" by Liu Zongyuan: The birds in the mountains have disappeared without a trace, and there are no traces of people on all roads. An old man wearing a straw hat was fishing alone on the cold river in a lone boat on the river.
"Snow on the River" is a five-character quatrain created by Liu Zongyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of Liu Zongyuan's masterpieces. The original text reads: Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of human beings have been wiped out. A man with a coir raincoat in a lone boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river. The poet only used twenty words to bring us to a quiet and cold place.
The first two sentences of the poem "Thousands of mountains have lost birds, and thousands of paths have lost all traces of people." It means that all mountains have lost birds, and all roads have lost all traces of people. The last two sentences are "A man with a coir raincoat and a straw hat is alone in a boat, fishing alone in the snow on the cold river." It means that the fisherman is wearing a raincoat and a raincoat in a lone boat on the river; fishing alone is not afraid of ice and snow attack.
"Snow on the River" is a landscape poem by Liu Zongyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, which describes a snowy scene in Jiangxiang. The poem uses typical generalization techniques to choose the typical scenery that best expresses the severe cold in the mountains and fields, including thousands of mountains and thousands of paths with no people and birds, and depicts the picture of heavy snowfall and freezing weather. Then it outlines the image of a fisherman fishing alone in the cold river to express The poet felt unyielding and deeply lonely after suffering a blow.
This poem was written when Liu Zongyuan was exiled to Yongzhou. In the first year of Yongzhen reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan participated in the Yongzhen reform movement, but the reform soon failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. But the oppression of the dangerous environment did not crush him. Politically unfavorable, he showed the value of life and ideal aspirations through poetry. This poem is one of the representative works.