Portrait of Liu Zongyuan
In 773 AD, Liu Zongyuan was born in Chang 'an. Liu Zongyuan was clever since he was a child and was deeply loved by his parents. Liu Zongyuan was deeply influenced by his mother Lu because of his scholarly family when he was a child, and he became interested in literature. Because his father was a DPRK official, Liu Zongyuan knew the corruption and incompetence of the court from an early age. When Liu Zongyuan was nine years old, he encountered the battle of Jian Zhong. In order to escape the war, Liu Zongyuan went to Xiakou where his father worked. Three years later, Liu Zongyuan suffered from war again. The experience of two wars made Liu Zongyuan feel the social unrest. He hoped that the rulers could establish a Qingming court, so that the people would no longer suffer from being displaced.
In his early years, Liu Zongyuan's father Jin Ryu went to Jiangxi as an official, and Liu Zongyuan followed his father to Jiangxi. This trip made Liu Zongyuan make many friends, and let him see the local customs and cultivate his independent personality.
Liu Zongyuan took part in the imperial examination at the age of twenty-one. He was admitted to the imperial examination and became an official in the DPRK. Shortly after his father died, Liu Zongyuan went home to mourn his father. Three years later, Liu Zongyuan once again entered the DPRK as an official. Liu Zongyuan deeply felt that the imperial court was corrupt and lonely, and the ruling regime was dominated by eunuchs. Liu Zongyuan and Wang and others launched a political innovation movement. As a result, it was opposed by conservative forces and ended in failure. Subsequently, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to poor Yongzhou. Although Liu Zongyuan's official position is Yongzhou Sima, it is nominal.
Liu Zongyuan's career was very bumpy, and later he sent his feelings between mountains and rivers.
Liu Zongyuan is good at many genres, and many of his works still have a high degree of singing.
Liu Zongyuan's travels
In travel prose, Liu Zongyuan is called "the ancestor of travel notes". The most famous is his travel works written during his stay in Yongzhou, called Eight Chapters of Yongzhou. These include: Travel Notes of Xide Xishan Banquet, The Story of Cobalt Pool, The Story of the West Hill of Cobalt Pool, The Story of Little Stone Pond in the West Hill, Yuan Jiake, Shiqu, Shi Jian and Little Rock Mountain.
Portrait of Liu Zongyuan
Eight Chapters of Yongzhou is not only a simple description of scenery, but Liu Zongyuan expresses his deep affection with beautiful scenery. He gives life to the landscape, and reading his travel works seems to be in it.
The Story of the Little Stone Pond to the West of the Hill, also known as The Story of the Little Stone Pond, was selected as a well-known masterpiece in junior middle school Chinese works. Xiaoshitang story is Liu Zongyuan's most famous landscape travel notes, and it is also one of the eight stories in Yongzhou. In the story of Xiaoshitang, Liu Zongyuan mainly described the scenery around Xiaoshitang, highlighting the quiet environment of Xiaoshitang. Liu Zongyuan described Xiaoshitang with a large number of vivid sentences, which reflected the author's leisurely mood and expressed Liu Zongyuan's thoughts and feelings of loving mountains and rivers and nature. In Liu Zongyuan's landscape travel prose, he also expressed his distress through beautiful scenery. He pinned his ambition on the landscape and reflected the beauty of nature from the side.
Liu Zongyuan was relegated because of the failure of the New Deal. After coming to Yongzhou, he inspired Liu Zongyuan's literary talent. In the past ten years, Liu Zongyuan has traveled all over Yongzhou, met the people of Yongzhou and learned about the local customs. Liu Zongyuan used the beautiful scenery of Yongzhou to sing the frustration of his official career, and he was obsessed with the landscape of Yongzhou.
Liu Zongyuan's fable
Liu Zongyuan is good at writing fables, alluding to the dark and ugly phenomenon of society with a distinctive protagonist. Elk Riverside, Money Donkey, House Mouse, Stork Theory, Dragon-lowering Theory, Crash Theory and Crab Biography are all Liu Zongyuan's fables. Among them, the elk in Linjiang, the donkey in money and the mouse in harmony come from the Three Commandments, which is also the most famous fable of Liu Zongyuan.
Portrait of Liu Zongyuan
Linjiang Elk is about a hunter who caught an elk while hunting in Linjiang and took it home to raise it. As soon as the elk entered the door, the hounds were salivating. The hunter was very angry and gave the hounds a good lesson. Hunters lead elk every day, and hounds dare not approach them. Hunters think that hunting dogs and elk will not hurt elk if they get acquainted. Gradually, the hunter let the elk play with the hounds. The hounds are very docile in front of their owners and dare not have any evil thoughts about elk. For a long time, elk regarded hounds as good friends. Later, the elk left home and met many wild dogs on the road. Elk thought they were all friendly and ran to play with them. The wild dogs were very excited to see their prey delivered to the door. They joined hands to eat the elk. The poor elk died for no reason.
Liu Zongyuan satirized the conservative forces with the tragic ending of the elk, and satirized the despicable people who were powerful in etiquette and law. At the same time, it satirizes those blind little people who take their enemies as their friends. The tragic fate of elk is used to hint at their final tragic ending.
These three fables were all written by Liu Zongyuan in Yongzhou, attacking the ugly phenomenon of society with satirical language.
Liu Zongyuan's famous sentence
Liu Zongyuan had only 100 poems in his life. In the Tang Dynasty, when poets and writers came forth in large numbers, Liu Zongyuan was a "low-yield" poet. However, many of Liu Zongyuan's poems are highly sung, among which Jiang Xue and Fisherman are the most famous.
Portrait of Liu Zongyuan
"There are no birds in a hundred mountains, and there are no footprints in a thousand paths" is a famous sentence in Liu Zongyuan's poem Jiang Xue. The whole content of this well-known "Jiang Xue" is: thousands of birds have flown away, and there is not a footprint in a thousand paths; A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice. When Liu Zongyuan was in Yongzhou, he visited the mountains and rivers of Yongzhou, sang songs and expressed his feelings by borrowing scenery. This song "Jiang Xue" describes a scene of heavy snow. In the freezing season, there is not even a bird in the forest, and there are no pedestrians on the road. At this time, only a fisherman was sitting by the river fishing for coir. Liu Zongyuan used "a boat with a leaf and a bamboo coat" to describe his lonely and sad mood, and also used snow to symbolize his noble sentiment. This poem is the masterpiece of Liu Zongyuan's pastoral poetry. Although it mainly describes the scenery in winter, it is a famous piece about the sadness of the scenery. Later, according to the artistic conception of "there are no birds in a hundred mountains and no footprints in a thousand paths", the painter painted a landscape literati painting, which is quite antique.
"Then, at sunrise, he walked through the mist, leaving only his oars creaking in the green mountains and rivers" is a famous sentence in Liu Zongyuan's poem The Fisherman. These two sentences are the crowning touch of the whole poem, as if the poet painted a natural ink painting with a brush. On a foggy morning, a fisherman coasted on the river. Under the embellishment of water mist, the scenery is more and more looming, as if he were in a fairyland on earth. Subsequently, the author borrowed the scenery of the lotus to express his feelings of taking pains.