"Snow on the River" is a five-character quatrain composed in Yongzhou by Liu Zongyuan, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

Source: "Jiang Snow" - Tang Dynasty: Liu Zongyuan

Thousands of mountains and birds have disappeared, and thousands of people have disappeared.

A lone man with a coir raincoat fishing in a boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.

On all the mountains, the birds have disappeared, and on all the roads there are no traces of people. On a lone boat on the river, an old man wearing a hat was fishing alone on the cold river covered with heavy snow.

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1. The creative background of "Jiang Snow"

This poem was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (805-815 AD). In the first year of Yongzhen reign of Emperor Shunzong of the Tang Dynasty (805), Liu Zongyuan participated in the Yongzhen reform movement launched by Wang Shuwen's group. The reform soon failed, and Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. The oppression of the dangerous environment did not crush him. He showed the value of life and ideals and interests through poetry.

2. Appreciation of the creation of "Snow on the River"

Liu Zongyuan's landscape poems have a distinctive feature, that is, the objective realm is relatively secluded, and the poet's subjective mood is It seems relatively lonely, even sometimes too lonely, too deserted, without any human atmosphere. This song "Snow on the River" is exactly like this. The poet only used twenty words to describe a quiet and cold picture: On the river covered with heavy snow, there is a small boat and an old fisherman, alone in the middle of the cold river. fishing.