People coming and going on the river only like delicious perch.
Look, the fisherman is driving a flat boat, going in and out in the wind and waves.
People come and go on the river, but they like the beauty of perch. Look at those poor fishermen, floating up and down in the big waves and rocking in the boats. Author-Fan Zhongyan
Sentence annotation
1. Fisherman: A fisherman.
2. But: Only
3. Love: Love
4. Perch: A kind of fish with big head and big mouth, thin and flat scales, white back and delicious taste. Living in shallow coastal waters, its meat quality is more plump after entering fresh water rivers in summer and autumn, especially in Songjiang.
5. Jun: You.
6. Leaf boat: a boat floating on the water like a leaf.
7. lingering: looming. It means you can see for a while and you can't see for a while.
8. Storm: Waves
First, the creative background:
1, The Fisherman on the River is a five-character quatrain written by Fan Zhongyan, a writer and poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem points out 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. By reflecting the hardships of fishermen's work, I hope to arouse people's attention to the sufferings of people's livelihood and reflect the poet's sympathy for the working people. The whole poem uses concise words, no flowery words, no difficult words, no axe marks, and expresses unusual thoughts and feelings in ordinary language, ordinary people and things, which has produced unusual artistic effects.
Fan Zhongyan is a politician who advocates innovation. During the reign of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, he served as a counselor and presided over the political reform. He was able to care about the sufferings of ordinary people living in the lower classes of society and wrote some poems sympathetic to the working people, but few of them have been handed down.
Second, the scenery.
The water town in the south of the Yangtze River is endless, and the benefits of fish and shrimp are extremely rich. Among them, Jiangsu Songjiang four-gill bass (four-gill bass) is the most famous. There is no one who doesn't like this specialty and doesn't want to taste this delicious food. Fan Zhongyan, a native of Wuxian County, grew up beside a pine tree. I know this situation very well. However, in his poems, he did not only pay attention to the delicacy and admiration of perch, but noticed something more noteworthy. I have noticed the pain and danger of fishermen hidden behind this profession and expressed my deep sympathy.
Third, appreciate
1, The Fisherman on the River is short and flat, with artistic characteristics. The whole poem has no uncommon words and is popular and natural. It can be said that a child can sing and an old woman can solve it. However, it is not as boring as boiled water, but as intriguing as alcohol mash. Seeing kindness in simplicity and feeling in plainness has reached the realm of Su Shi's "plain as true beauty", which is a major artistic feature of this poem.
2. Another artistic feature of this poem is to express feelings and hope to show them. Lu Shiyong once put forward such a standard of poetic beauty in the General Theory of Poetry Mirror: "People who are good at expressing their feelings have shallow feelings and deep feelings, and if they want to show them, they will feel infinite." Generally speaking, poems that can truly "show and hide" in expressing lyricism and theme are often chewy and memorable. The Fisherman on the River is such a poem. The poem aims to reflect the difficulties and obstacles of fishermen fishing on the river and sympathize with the sufferings of people's livelihood. Obviously, poetically speaking, it is a poem by a poet in the Tang Dynasty, "Who knows that every grain is hard", unlike Zhang's "Fisherman", which writes that the fisherman is so leisurely: "Green shoots and green shoots don't have to return to the rain"; On the other hand, he is not as outspoken as Shi Li. It is like a misty mountain peak. At first glance, it is either hidden or present, and it is hazy. Through mildew, we can know its "true face"; It seems that he is an introvert and his feelings are accumulated in his heart.
This poem does not have the word "fisherman" in its title, but it is inseparable from the fisherman from beginning to end. In the first two poems, it seems that people coming and going on the river are simply written (obviously referring to big businessmen, nobles and powerful people, not people who benefit the people, because people who benefit the people can't afford rare and delicious bass). They only know the delicacy of perch. In fact, it is also indirectly about fishermen. After all, the fat bass was caught by fishermen who risked their lives. Not only that, these two poems also have such a subtext: people coming and going on the river don't know the hardships of fishermen. This is mainly because of the word "but love". This kind of writing paves the way for the following article to write about the difficulties and obstacles of fishermen's lives and reflect the author's thought of caring about people's health.
3. The last two poems, with sharp brushstrokes, depict a thrilling picture: a flat boat, struggling in the storm, suddenly surging into the waves, suddenly falling into the valley, always facing the danger of overturning. Here, although there is no specific image of the fisherman, and there is no explicit expression of the fisherman's suffering and life danger, we can easily feel the existence of the fisherman through the scene of a gondola floating in clean smoke waves. From the strong contrast between "a boat with a leaf" and "a storm", we can observe the fisherman's difficult life and dangerous situation, and understand that the fisherman had no fish and no food at that time. I am a fisherman, but I am a fisherman's poem. I hope you agree with me. "These two poems are affectionate and affectionate. They are in sharp contrast with the first two poems, which makes profound thoughts and sincere feelings want to be revealed. Its artistic effect is far better than saying that fishermen suffer.
Brief introduction of the author
Fan Zhongyan (989-1052) was born in Greece. After his death, posthumous title, Shi called Gong. He was a famous minister, politician, strategist, writer and thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home was Zhangzhou (now Bin County, Shaanxi Province). In the name of daring to speak, he repeatedly wrote to criticize the prime minister at that time, so he was demoted three times. Song Renzong was a deputy prime minister when he was an official. Because he lost his father in childhood, he deeply felt the pain of the lower class. Fan Wenzheng Gong Ji has been handed down from generation to generation.