Two groups of synonyms: extinct and extinguished, solitary and alone
Source: "Jiang Xue" - Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan
Thousands of mountains and birds are extinct, and thousands of birds are extinct. All traces of people are gone.
A man in a lone boat with a coir raincoat fishing fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
On all the mountains, the birds have disappeared, and on all the roads there are no traces of people. On a lone boat on the river, an old man wearing a hat was fishing alone on the cold river covered with heavy snow.
Extended information
1. The creative background of "Jiang Snow"
This poem was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (805-815 AD). In the first year of Yongzhen reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang Dynasty (805), Liu Zongyuan participated in the Yongzhen reform movement launched by Wang Shuwen group. The reform soon failed, and Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. The oppression of the dangerous environment did not crush him. He showed the value of life and ideals and interests through poetry.
2. Appreciation of "Snow on the River"
Liu Zongyuan's landscape poems have a distinctive feature, that is, the objective realm is relatively secluded, while the poet's subjective mood is It seems rather lonely, even sometimes too lonely, too deserted, without any human atmosphere.
This song "Snow on the River" is exactly like this. The poet only used twenty words to describe a quiet and cold picture: on the river covered with heavy snow, there was a small boat and an old fisherman. , fishing alone in the cold middle of the river.
3. Introduction to the author of "Jiang Xue"
Liu Zongyuan also left excellent works for future generations in terms of travel notes and fables. "Eight Notes of Yongzhou" has become a masterpiece of ancient Chinese landscape travel notes. These beautiful landscape travel notes vividly express people's feelings about the beauty of nature, enriching the new realm of classical prose that reflects life, thus establishing the status of landscape notes as an independent literary genre in the history of literature.
Because of his artistic achievements, he has been praised and praised by people for thousands of years. In addition to allegorical poems, Liu Zongyuan also wrote many fables, such as "The Donkey of Guizhou", "The Rat of the Yong Family", etc., which have become famous ancient fables. "The Guizhou donkey has no skills" has become an idiom and almost everyone knows it. Although some fables are short in length, they have been passed down through the ages just like his landscape stories.