Liu Zongyuan was an outstanding poet in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Zongyuan's Jiang Xue is unanimously regarded as the most aloof poem in ancient times, with only 20 words, "There are no birds in a hundred mountains, and there are no footprints in a thousand paths". A boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow. "Liu Zongyuan said a few words and wrote everything he saw and thought in the poem.
The poem Jiang Xue mainly describes that on a snowy morning, there is no life and silence in Fiona Fang, while an old man is fishing in a boat. Such a simple picture brings the world an extraordinary realm, which shows that the old people are aloof and unwilling to go with the flow of the world.
Liu Zongyuan used Jiang Xue to express his feelings at that time. In the vast universe, the author only uses three images, namely "Qian Shan", "bird" and "lonely boat", which are the most common things in daily life, but with the addition of "Jue" and "Jue", the artistic conception of the poem is instantly sublimated.
The first two sentences of "Jiang Xue" only depict the silence and lifelessness of all things, but the last two sentences highlight Liu Zongyuan's aloof meaning, giving the world a feeling of being at arm's length, showing Liu Zongyuan's desire to be independent from the secular world, but according to the reality at that time, he could not.
Liu Zongyuan's personality is very withdrawn. At that time, he was being banished to Yongzhou, and his spirit was greatly stimulated. Therefore, he used scenery to express his pain of political failure.