The old man with a coir raincoat hat fishing alone in the cold river means: an old man wearing a coir raincoat hat in a lone boat on the river, fishing alone on the cold river.
"Snow on the River" is a five-character quatrain composed in Yongzhou by Liu Zongyuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Full text: Birds in thousands of mountains have disappeared, and all traces of people have disappeared. A man with a coir raincoat in a lone boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
Translation: The birds in the mountains have disappeared, and all the roads are deserted. An old man wearing a straw hat was fishing alone on the cold river in a lone boat on the river.
Extended information:
The poem "Jiang Snow" was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (805-815). 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, and implemented political measures to suppress eunuchs internally, control vassal towns externally, and maintain national unity.
However, due to the joint opposition of the reactionary forces, the reform quickly failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. In fact, he lived a life of "prisoner" under control and under house arrest. The oppression of the dangerous environment did not crush him. Politically unfavorable, he showed the value of life and ideal aspirations through poetry. This poem is one of the representative works.
In this poem, the thing that covers everything and encompasses everything is snow. There is snow on the mountains and on the roads. Moreover, "thousands of mountains" and "ten thousand paths" are all snow, which makes "birds fly" "Extinct", "The traces of people are extinct". Even the boat awning and the fisherman's coir raincoat were of course covered with snow. But the poet did not clearly connect these scenery with "snow".
On the contrary, in this picture, there is only Jiang and Jiang Xin. Of course, the river will not store snow or be covered by snow, and even if snow falls into the river, it will immediately turn into water. However, the poet chose to use the three words "Hanjiang Snow" to connect the two most distant images of "Jiang" and "Snow" together, which gave people a feeling of being relatively empty, distant and relatively distant. The feeling of zooming out, which creates a long-distance shot.
This makes the main objects described in the poem more concentrated, more dexterous and more prominent. Because even the river seems to be full of snow, and even the places where there is no snow are full of snow, this completely describes the situation of heavy, dense, thick and thick snow, and makes the water and sky irrespective of each other. The vast atmosphere above and below is also completely highlighted.