However, due to the joint opposition of reactionary forces, the reform soon failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. In fact, he lived a life of "prisoner" under control and house arrest. Being at a political disadvantage, he expressed the value and ideal interest of life through his poems. This poem is one of the masterpieces.
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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 in his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice.
Translation:
Birds fly out of sight in the mountains, and no one can be seen on all the roads. On a lonely boat on the river, an old man wearing a bamboo hat was fishing alone on the cold river.
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