"The Fishermen on the River" expresses the poet's concern and sympathy for the fishermen who drive small boats in the roaring waves, and also expresses the poet's feelings for the people on the river who "only love the beauty of sea bass" The meaning of exhortation. The poet's intention is revealed in the strong contrast between the two environments on the river and in the boat, the two dynamics of "coming and going" and "haunting", and the two lives of fish eaters and fishermen.

"The Fisherman on the River"

Northern Song Dynasty·Fan Zhongyan

People come and go on the river, but they love the beauty of sea bass.

Look at the boat, which is in and out of the storm.

Translation: People coming and going on the river only love the delicious taste of seabass. Look at the fisherman driving a small boat like a leaf, emerging and disappearing in the strong wind and waves.

Perch: a fish with a large head, large mouth, flat body and thin scales, green back and white belly, and delicious taste. It lives in shallow coastal waters in summer and autumn. After entering freshwater rivers in summer and autumn, the meat becomes fatter, especially produced in Songjiang. The most valuable.

Jun: You.

Yiye Zhou: A small boat that looks like a leaf floating on the water.

Haunting: looming. It means being visible for a while and invisible for a while.

Extended information:

Creative background

This poem was written around the first year of Jingyou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1034). At that time, Fan Zhongyan was forty-six years old and was in charge of Suzhou. In order to control floods, he was observing the water conditions in Suzhou and Changzhou. I saw a small boat in the river floating and sinking in the rough water, and I wrote a poem with emotion.

Literary Appreciation

The language of this poem is simple and vivid. There are only twenty words in the whole poem, but the words are close but the purpose is far-reaching, the words are shallow but the meaning is deep, which can arouse rich emotions. Lenovo. It has the meaning of "Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work" (Li Shen's "Two Poems of Compassion for the Farmers"), which contains the author's thought of "worrying about the world's worries first, and rejoicing after the world's happiness".

The first sentence says that people are coming and going on the river bank, it is bustling and very lively. Naturally leads to the second sentence. It turns out that the purpose of people going to and from the river is "to love the beauty of sea bass". But love means only love. Bass has a flat and narrow body, a large head and thin scales, and is delicious. People flocked to the river to get it first. But no one knows that catching bass is not easy, and no one has noticed the hardships of fishermen. The world only loves the deliciousness of sea bass, but does not pity the hard work of fishermen. This is unfair in the world.

People flock to the river to get it first. But no one knows that catching bass is not easy, and no one has noticed the hardships of fishermen. The world only loves the deliciousness of sea bass, but does not pity the hard work of fishermen. This is unfair in the world.

So in three or four sentences, the author constructed a vivid picture to reflect the hard work of the fishermen on the river. A small boat, caught in the storm, is really "life is in danger, and you don't care about the day or night." The reason why the fishermen took such risks was not stated clearly by the poet, and the story ended abruptly, but the readers can already understand the author's implication.

This is because the fishermen are completely forced by life, and the beauty of the sea bass is obtained by the hardships of the fishermen. This kind of exhaustive technique makes the poem implicit, meaningful, and memorable.