What kind of thoughts and feelings does Qu Yuan's Fisherman express?

Compared with other great immortal worlds in Chu Ci, Qu Yuan's artistic achievements as a fisherman are relatively inferior. The fantastic mythical world undoubtedly contains a kind of romanticism and has a strong image appeal. In contrast, Qu Yuan's The Fisherman has more reasoning elements, which greatly weakens the artistry. This is closely related to Qu Yuan's expression that he would rather go to Hunan and be buried in the belly of a river fish, and also to keep his innocence and integrity. However, from the perspective of ideological connotation, the influence of The Fisherman on China's poetic tradition and literary tradition cannot be underestimated. It must be pointed out that there are two cultural archetypes or motifs in The Fisherman, which run through the whole history of ancient China literature. First, the debate is both a dream and a feeling, and second, the image of a fisherman.

The debate about sobriety and dreams in The Fisherman is one of the most classic expressions in China's literature. This is the correspondence between "dream" and "consciousness". Dreams are dreamy, intoxicating and drunk. Awakening with consciousness, making a living, surviving and waking alone refers to mental drunkenness and awakening. This has become the source of the thought of honest and upright officials in China's literature. Qu Yuan said: "I am alone in the world, everyone is drunk and I am alone. This is because Qu Yuan attributed his political unpopularity to his "purity" and "awakening". He was exiled because he was "awake" and "awake" alone. Here, Qu Yuan clearly expressed that he had surpassed everything and reached the realm of Tao, and adopted a very obvious old-fashioned concept of joining the WTO, aiming at the politics of the present, the present and this side. And the fisherman said: saints don't touch things, why not spit their mud and make waves? Everyone is drunk, why not feed the bad ones? Why look ahead, look forward, and let yourself be? " Although it has not surpassed this feeling of joining the WTO, it has obvious feelings of Laozi, Zhuangzi and Taoism, which points out a realistic way for Qu Yuan. After Fisherman, the idea of incorruptibility has basically become one of the important themes in literary works of past dynasties, and most of them are different.

However, there are many poems that use fishermen as artistic prototypes to arouse emotions in later generations, from Wang Wei's "Bamboo Noisy to Alkane Woman, Lotus Leaves Let Fishing Boat" (autumn night in the mountains) to Li Bai's "Since the world can't satisfy our desire, I will let go of my hair and take a fishing boat tomorrow" (farewell to Minister Shu Yun at Xie Tiao Villa in Xuanzhou), and from Liu Zongyuan's "A boat with a leaf, a bamboo attack". Although there is no need to return to the oblique wind and drizzle, the techniques are different and the tastes are different, but they all come from the deep foundation of the prototype of Chu Ci. What's more worth mentioning is that when Su Shi, a great writer, was relegated to Huangzhou, he went home to have a drink with his guests at night and got drunk with the poem "The boat will die today, and the river and the sea will live the rest of his life" ("Linjiang Xian"), expressing his yearning for the fisherman's free seclusion. All these poems are not a gesture of resistance or doubt, which makes the image of "fisherman" in the original Chu Ci gradually introverted to express the unique fisherman in the author's heart.