Original text:
People who come to the river often only love perches.
Look at those poor fishermen, floating up and down in the big waves and rocking in the boats.
People coming and going on the river only like the delicious perch. Look at those poor fishermen, who are driving their boats up and down in the big wind and waves.
Extended data:
Fan Zhongyan was able to care about the sufferings of ordinary people living in the lower classes of society and wrote some poems that sympathized with the working people. He is a native of Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province, and grew up on the edge of Songjiang. He knows very well that "people who come and go drinking and having fun on the river only know the delicious bass, but they don't know and don't want to know the danger and hardship of fishermen fighting with stormy waves."
When he was drinking fish and enjoying the scenery, he saw the boat ups and downs in the wind and waves, which reminded the fishermen of the hardships and dangers of fishing, so he left with emotion and wrote this simple and meaningful poem.
This poem is concise in language and vivid in image. Although it is short, it is hard to find. Through the description of the scenery seen by the river, the whole poem reflects the hardships of fishermen's work, arouses people's concern about people's livelihood and the poet's thinking about the world.
The first sentence is about people coming and going on the river bank, which is very lively. The second sentence is written on the shore, and the host's mentality reveals the reason for "communication". The last two sentences-~ turn, attract people's attention to the surface of the water and point out the fishing boats swaying in the wind and waves.
Perch is delicious, but it's hard to catch. The poet's sympathy for the fisherman's suffering contains profound advice to the people on the shore who love the beauty of perch. Ordinary language, ordinary people and things express unusual thoughts and feelings and produce unusual artistic effects.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Fisherman on the River