The last sentence is: a hundred mountains and no bird, a thousand paths without a footprint.
Source: Jiang Xue by Tang Zongyuan
a hundred mountains and no bird, a thousand paths without a footprint.
despite the storm, sit firmly on the diaoyutai.
vernacular interpretation: there is no sign of birds in Wanling, Qian Shan; There are no footprints of pedestrians in thousands of roads. On a lonely boat, a fisherman wearing a coir and a hat; Fishing alone in the snow. Extended information
Writing background:
This poem was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (85-815 AD). In the year of Yongzhen Yuan in Tang Shunzong (85), Liu Zongyuan participated in the Yongzhen Innovation Movement launched by Wang Shuwen Group, and the reform soon failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. The oppression of the sinister environment did not crush him. He showed the value and ideal interest of life through poetry.
Appreciation of the article:
Liu Zongyuan's landscape poems have a remarkable feature, that is, the objective realm is relatively secluded, while the poet's subjective mood is relatively lonely, and sometimes even too lonely, too cold and cheerless, without a little human fireworks.
This is the case with Jiang Xue. It takes only 2 words for the poet to describe a quiet and cold picture: on the snowy river, a small boat and an old fisherman are fishing alone in the cold river.
What the poet shows the readers is something like this: the world is so pure and silent, spotless and silent; The fisherman's life is so lofty, and his character is so aloof.
In fact, this is a fantasy realm created by Liu Zongyuan because he hated the declining society of the Tang Dynasty at that time. Compared with the characters in Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden, I am afraid it is even more illusory and far away from the world.
What the poet wants to describe in detail is extremely simple, but it is just a boat, an old fisherman wearing a hemp fiber and a Dai Li hat, fishing on the snowy river, and that's all.
However, in order to highlight the main description object, the poet spared no effort to describe its background in half the space, and made it as vast as possible, almost to an infinite extent. The broader the background, the more prominent the main description object is.