The original poem of Jiang Xue and its translation are as follows:

a hundred mountains and no bird, a thousand paths without a footprint.

a little boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow.

The birds in the mountains have disappeared, and there are no people 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.

writing background: Jiang Xue was written during Liu Zongyuan's exile in Yongzhou (85-815). In the year of Yongzhen Yuan in Tang Shunzong (85), Liu Zongyuan participated in the Yongzhen Innovation Movement launched by Wang Shuwen Group. However, the reform soon failed. Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and exiled for ten years. The sinister environmental oppression did not crush him. Disadvantaged in politics, he showed the value and ideal interest of life through poetry. This poem is one of the masterpieces.

Appreciation of Works

Jiang Xue is a five-character quatrain written by Liu Zongyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, in Yongzhou. In the poem, typical generalizations are used, and Qian Shan's 1,-trail, the extinction of people and birds, which can best represent the cold in Shan Ye, is chosen to describe the scene of heavy snow and freezing in the cold. Then draw the image of a fisherman who fished alone in the cold river, so as to express the poet's unyielding and deeply lonely mood after being hit. The whole poem is unique in conception, concise in language and rich in meaning.

The poet used only 2 words to describe a quiet and cold picture: on the snowy river, a small boat and an old fisherman were fishing alone in the cold river. What the poet shows the readers is something like this: the world is so pure and silent, spotless and silent; The fisherman's life is lofty, and the fisherman's character is aloof.