The Original Text and Appreciation of Fisherman Liu Zongyuan

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The fisherman rests on the western hills at night, learns the clear water in the morning, and cooks for firewood.

The sun disappears like a cloud, and there is a noise from the green mountains and green waters.

Looking back, the fishing boat has drifted below the horizon, and white clouds are floating in the mountains, chasing each other.

This is an ancient poem with only six sentences, which describes the activities of a group of fishermen from late at night to dawn.

The wedding banquet is the beginning of the banquet in the mountains and the west in the travel notes. Xishan is a unique mountain, which is "peculiar", "unique" and "different from Peiyuan". At night, the fisherman parked his fishing boat beside the Western Hills and stayed at the foot of the Western Hills. At dawn, he lit a fire to boil water, burn Chu Guizhu and boil the clear water of Xiangjiang River. Qing Xiang and Chu Chu can be said to be the embodiment of the fisherman's elegant and noble character, and subtly reveal the author's own personality. A word "Qing" gives people a feeling of being out of touch with the world.

Three or four sentences is an extraordinary picture: the sun came out and dispersed the smoke hanging over the river, but when the smoke dispersed, the fisherman who had just chased Hunan to burn bamboo suddenly disappeared. With a sound, we saw his figure reflected in the green Hunan water. These two sentences are written at different levels. The author put "landscape green" after "smoke sales sunrise", which is very true, because before sunrise, the river was shrouded in fog and white, and it was impossible to see "landscape green". "Green" is a constant poetic eye. It is no exaggeration for Mr. Yu Shouzhen to praise Han Changli's "six words are ordinary and one word is strange".

In the last two sentences, I wrote that the fishing boat went to the middle stream. Looking back, the western hills were far away, and the mountains were filled with white clouds, as if they were chasing unintentionally. Su Shi once said, "The last two sentences are unnecessary." Probably in his view, the first four sentences have written off the fisherman's aloof character and his comfortable feeling in nature, so there is no need to gild the lily. Actually, these two sentences are not snake feet. They set off the fisherman's comfortable taste with long white clouds, showing the author's detached mentality.

Mr. Yu Shouzhen said in "Three Hundred Notes on Tang Poetry": "Although the title of this poem is fisherman, the theme is to write about scenery." This is just one layer away. The author writes about scenery in order to express his elegant and detached mentality, to be above the rivers and lakes and enjoy himself. The fisherman in this poem is like an old man fishing in a cold river-snow and a boat, a bamboo cloak of Jiang Xue, which is the embodiment of the author's own image. In Cai Kuan-fu's poems, Liu Zongyuan, Bai Juyi and Tao Yuanming were compared, saying, "In the autumn when the child is thick, his sadness and sigh come from poets, especially sour;" ..... but not Yuan Ming. Looking at works such as "Poor Man" and "Son of Responsibility", you will worry when you are worried. When you are happy, you will be happy. When you suddenly forget your troubles and happiness, you will adapt to what you meet. You never choose between them. The so-called spiritual relics should be like this. " Cai's sincerity is justified, but Liu is not blindly sad and sour. He also has "peerless relics", which shows from this poem.

Dongpo said: "Poetry delights in strangeness and abnormality. Knowing this poem is very interesting, but the last two sentences are unnecessary. " ([Song] Hui Hong's "Cold Zhai Night Talk" Volume 5)

Liu Zihou's poem "Old fisherman stays here for the night, facing the west cliff", Dongpo deleted the last two sentences, so that Zi Hou could be resurrected, and he would be convinced.

(Yan Yu's Textual Research on Cang Shi Lang Dialect)

Liu Zihou said, "When I turned around, I saw the waves moving from the sky, and the clouds on the cliff were idle, one by one." Po Weng wanted to cut these two sentences off. On poets, it is inevitable for short people to see a doctor. If Yu Yu's poems only use the first four sentences, what's the difference between them and the late Tang Dynasty? (Li Dongyang's "Poetry in the Foothills")

Clear and elegant, almost business tone? (Poetization of [Ming])