Liu Zongyuan is one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", a famous essayist, poet and philosopher. Travel Notes of Xide Xishan Banquet, Song Circles, Song Circles Xishan, Crime and Punishment Fu, Sheng Min Fu, Jiang Xue and Snake Catcher are all representative works of Liu Zongyuan.
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 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. Guizhou Donkey satirizes the officials of the imperial court at that time with the story of donkey and tiger. They only know how to pretend to be strong. As a weak person, we should dare to fight against evil forces. They look terrible, but they are actually easy to beat.
Liu Zongyuan is good at writing.
Liu Zongyuan is one of the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", a famous essayist, poet and writer. Liu Zongyuan is good at writing poems, landscape travel notes, fables and ci fu.
Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu launched an ancient prose movement for article writing. Liu Zongyuan advocated that articles should be realistic and reflect reality. They oppose empty parallel prose and advocate that article writing should keep up with the times and not stick to form. In prose creation, Liu Zongyuan practiced new prose forms and created many famous articles.
Travel Notes of Xide Xishan Banquet, Notes of the Song Dynasty and Notes of the West Mountain of the Song Dynasty are Liu Zongyuan's landscape prose works, which are contained in Eight Notes of Yongzhou. 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 prose Travel Notes on Mountains and Rivers, he also expressed his distress through beautiful scenery. He pinned his ambition on mountains and rivers and reflected the beauty of nature from the side.
In terms of fable creation, his representative works include Elk by the River and Donkey in Guizhou. Liu Zongyuan showed the darkness of the social world with bitter and sarcastic language. Donkeys in Guizhou satirized the officials of the imperial court at that time with the story of donkeys and tigers. They have no power, only pretend to be strong. As a weak person, we should dare to fight against evil forces. They look terrible, but in fact they are easy to beat. Liu Zongyuan is good at satirizing reality with fables.
Appreciation of Liu Zongyuan's Fisherman
Fisherman is one of Liu Zongyuan's representative works, and the poet expresses his talents by scenery.
The whole poem of "Fisherman" is: an old fisherman spent the night here, under the west cliff, Xiao Ji, burning bamboo. The sun disappears like a cloud, and the sound of sculls comes from green mountains and green waters. Looking back, the fishing boat has drifted below the horizon, and white clouds are floating in the mountains, chasing each other.
To appreciate this poem, we must first analyze it from the creative background. At that time, Liu Zongyuan and Wang carried out a political reform movement, which was opposed by conservative forces and ended in failure. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to poor Liuzhou. Although Liu Zongyuan's official position is Yongzhou Sima, it is nominal. Liu Zongyuan is very depressed in Yongzhou. He didn't want to be hindered 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. When Liu Zongyuan was in Yongzhou, he visited the mountains and rivers of Yongzhou, sang songs and expressed his feelings by borrowing scenery.
This poem "Fisherman" takes the image of "Fisherman" as the main line of creation, which adds the living and working environment of the fisherman and highlights his hard life. In the poem, the poet uses the order of the world to express the daily life of fishermen. From night to morning, the change of time has also brought about the change of fishermen's work. Liu Zongyuan combined scenery description with narration, which not only reflected the rhythm of life, but also highlighted the fun of life. "Then, at sunrise, he walked through the fog, and in the green mountains and green waters, only the creak of his paddle was left." These two sentences are the crowning touch of the whole poem, as if the poet painted a natural ink painting with a brush. On a foggy morning, a fisherman coasted on the river. Under the embellishment of water mist, the scenery is more and more looming, as if he were in a fairyland on earth. Subsequently, the author borrowed the scenery of the lotus to express his feelings of taking pains.