Said by: Jiang Xue is a five-character quatrain written by Liu Zongyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, in Yongzhou. Original text:
Xue Jiang
Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan
There are no birds flying over those mountains, and there are no traces of people in those paths.
A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice.
Translation:
On all the mountains, birds have disappeared, and on all the roads, there are no traces of people.
On a lonely boat on the river, an old man in a bamboo hat was fishing alone on the cold river covered with heavy snow.
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Creative background:
This poem was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (AD 805-8 15). During Yongzhen Yuan's reign (805), Liu Zongyuan participated in Yongzhen Innovation Movement initiated by Wang Group.
The political reform failed soon, and Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. The oppression of the sinister environment did not crush him. He expresses the value and ideal interest of life through poetry.
Appreciate:
A boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold Jiang Xue. The boat is lonely and the fisherman is unique. It is conceivable that there is a boat and a fishing line on the long river under the heavy snow. Isn't this artistic conception enough to remind people of the elegiac singers on the stage in Youzhou?
At this point, the poet completed the work of pushing "loneliness" to the extreme. Wang Shizhen's Lonely Fishing Map of Qiu Jiang in Qing Dynasty said: "A boat is lame, and a thread is hooked one inch. Sing a song, drink a bottle of wine, and catch a river alone. "
There is more elegance and leisure. At this point, Liu Xun's poems are far away. I think many poets in Qing dynasty were frightened by the literary inquisition. But as Poxian said, Liu's poems "have joy in sorrow and sorrow in joy".
Poets do not blindly express their loneliness through external objects. Poets also have their own cokes. We noticed that the poet chose "fisherman" as his "image spokesman". In the works of China literati, fishermen are mostly symbols of wisdom.
He is a fisherman who worships Qu Yuan by the river. In Yujiangzhu, Chunfeng, who often watches the autumn moon, is a "white-haired fisherman", a fisherman who laughs at the prince in The Journey to the West. Liu Zongyuan's choice is actually his heartfelt self-identity.
Because of the loneliness given by the outside world, the poet turned to pursue solipsism, which is also the usual handwriting of China literati. If you go to school, you are Confucian; if you are poor, you are Taoist. I can't help the world, so I can only be alone.
Finally, the fisherman caught snow instead of fish, which also pointed out the reason why the poet was lonely-because he was not a layman, but had his own higher pursuit-something as clean as snow, or a realm.
Liu isn't. She won't pretend to fish for fame in the name of fishing, and naturally she won't get the latter's "success before her death". If it is really "cold people don't eat still water at night", it can only be "full of boats and empty moons." After all, time is against me, and there is nothing I can do.