First of all, it should be clear that in ancient times, most people who could read and write poems were literati, scholars and intellectuals influenced by China's traditional ideology and culture. The mainstream of China's traditional culture is Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
Confucianism pursues self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world; Shi Jia pursues indifference; Taoism approaches Buddhism and pursues independence. It can be said that the fishing scenes in ancient poems are mostly based on the thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, not just because of greed.
Like Meng Haoran? Do you feel like a fish when I sit here and watch a fisherman throw a fish? This sentence literally means fishing without tools, but combining the context with the object of his poem? Prime Minister Zhang? It can be found that Meng Haoran hopes his career will rise, which represents his political ambition.
The ancients paid attention to the use of allusions in literary creation, and many poems would say that Yan Ziling fished to express his indifferent ambition to fame and fortune. Yan Ziling was a famous person in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Guangwu sent his old classmates to invite him to be an official in North Korea, but he refused to go to Yan Ziling three times, saying that he was willing to plow and fish and live in seclusion in the mountains. Therefore, writing about fishing in poems and allusions must not be greedy, but express one's own ideological interests.
For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan was banished to Yongzhou, a remote and barren place, because of the failure of political struggle, and spent ten years in the hinterland. At this time, he chose to indulge in landscapes and wander about things to forget the pain of frustration in reality. He has a very famous poem:? 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. ? Fishing is also written here, but it is written about my lofty indifference, detachment from things, and loneliness that does not go along with others.
To sum up, fishing in ancient poetry is not only greedy, but also the author's own inner thoughts and feelings, so we can find that the ancients spoke tactfully and did not go straight.