"Why do poets use images such as" Cold River "and" Lonely Boat "?"

The fisherman's life is so noble, and the fisherman's character is so arrogant. The poet used the words "Qian Shan" and "Wanjing" to set off the pictures of "boating alone" and "fishing alone" in the latter two sentences, and also used the words "snow on the Hanjiang River" to connect these two images with each other, forming an unusual scene. In such a cold and silent environment, the old fisherman ignored the cold and snow, forgot everything and devoted himself to fishing. Although it is lonely in form, it seems lofty and aloof in character, and even a little awe-inspiring.

The original "Jiang Xue" Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty

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.

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On all the mountains, birds are gone, 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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I. Theme

The landscape poems written by Liu Zongyuan have a remarkable feature, that is, the objective realm is relatively quiet, while the poet's subjective state of mind is relatively lonely, sometimes even too lonely, too cold and cheerless, without any human fireworks. This song "Jiang Xue" is like this. The poet painted a quiet and cold picture in only 20 words: on the snowy river, a boat and an old fisherman were fishing alone on the cold river.

Second, the 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 took part in Yongzhen Innovation Movement initiated by Wang Group, and soon the reform failed. 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.