Fishing Songs
The white herons fly in front of Xisai Mountain, and the fish in the peach blossom stream are fat.
Green Ruo hat, green straw raincoat, oblique wind and fine rain do not have to return.
Translation of the poem:
The egrets are flying freely in front of Xisai Mountain, the peach blossoms are in full bloom on the river bank, the spring water is rising, and the Mandarin fish are fat in the water. The fisherman wears a green-colored Ruo hat on his head and a green Demoiselle raincoat, braving the slanting wind and fine rain, fishing happily and with no need to go home.
Background:
Tang dai zong dali seven years (772) in September, yan zhenqing huzhou assassin, the following year to the office. Zhang Zhihe boat to visit, when the late spring, peach blossom water rise, Mandarin fish water beauty, they improvised and sang, Zhang Zhihe first song, composed five lyrics, this lyric is one of them. The lyrics in the Xianzong once lost, Changqing three years (823), Li Deyu visited the, recorded in his "Xuanzhenzi fishing song" in the text, began to circulate to the present day.
"Fishing Songs - White Heron Flying in Front of Xisai Mountain" is a poem by Zhang Zhihe, a poet of Tang Dynasty. The first two lines of this lyric are about the place and season of fishing. In these two lines, there are mountains, water, birds, flowers and fish, outlining a beautiful environment for fishing and paving the way for the characters to appear. The last two lines of the poem are about fishing on the smoky waves. The phrase "gentle wind and rain" in the last line is not only a realistic description of the scenery, but also has a deeper meaning. By praising the natural scenery and the fisherman's fishing, the poem expresses the author's yearning for a free life.
Zhang Zhihe (732-774?) was a Chinese poet. , with the character Zi Tong, was first known as Guiling, and was called Xuanzhenzi. Qimen County Dengta Township Zhangcunbi people, ancestral home in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, the ancestors of Huzhou Changxing Fangtang. Zhang Zhi and three years old can read, six years old to do articles, sixteen years old Mingjing and first, has served as Hanlin to be imperial edicts, left Jingwuwei record counsellor, Nanpu County, such as lieutenant. Later, he felt the winds and waves of the bureaucracy and the impermanence of life, and when his mother and wife died one after another, he abandoned the government and his family and wandered into the rivers and lakes. Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty had given him a slave and a maid, called "fishing boy" and "woodcutting green", Zhang Zhihe then lived with his maid in the area of East and West Campsylvania Creek and Zhaanxi in the Taihu Lake area, with his flat boat, floating on the Three Rivers and the Five Lakes, and fishing and woodcutting for his pleasure.
In the ninth year of the Tang Dynasty (774), Zhang Zhihe was invited by Yan Zhenqing, the then governor of Huzhou, and went to Huzhou to pay a visit to him. In December of the same winter, when he and Yan Zhenqing traveled to the Pingwang Stage, he accidentally fell into the water at the Pingwang Lake of Yingjiao.
Writings include 12 volumes of Xuanzhenzi with 30,000 words, 15 volumes of Daiyi, 5 words of Fisherman's Lyrics and 7 poems.