Xue Jiang
Author Liu Zongyuan? 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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This is a rhyming five-character quatrain, which is one of Liu Zongyuan's representative works. It was written during his exile in Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan).
After Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou, he was greatly stimulated and depressed mentally. Therefore, by describing the scenery of mountains and rivers and praising the fisherman who lived in seclusion between mountains and rivers, he expressed his lofty and aloof feelings and his anguish and distress in political frustration. Therefore, Liu Zongyuan's landscape poems have a remarkable feature, that is
Is to write the objective realm more secluded, while the poet's subjective state of mind is relatively lonely, sometimes even too lonely, too cold and cheerless, without any human fireworks. This is obviously inseparable from his life experience and the development and change of his whole thoughts and feelings.
This song "Jiang Xue" is like this. The poet took us to a quiet and cold place in only twenty words. In front of the readers, there is such a picture: on the snowy river, a boat and an old fisherman are fishing alone on the icy river.
What the poet shows his readers is this: the world is so pure and silent, spotless and silent; The fisherman's life is so noble, and his character is so aloof. In fact, this is a fantasy realm created by Liu Zongyuan because he hated the declining society of the Tang Dynasty at that time.
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Jiang Xue's Creative Background
In Yongzhenyuan, Liu Zongyuan participated in the political reform movement headed by Wang. Because of the joint counterattack of conservative forces and eunuchs, the innovation failed. Therefore, Liu Zongyuan was relegated to Yongzhou, which is known as the "Southern Wilderness". So he wrote this famous poem with resentment.
References:
Jiang Xue-Baidu encyclopedia