It comes from the five-character quatrain "The Fisherman on the River" written by Fan Zhongyan, a poet from the Song Dynasty.

Full poem: People come and go on the river, but they love the beauty of sea bass. You see, a boat is in and out of the storm.

Translation: Pedestrians coming and going on the river only like the delicious seabass. Look at that small fishing boat, disappearing and appearing in the roaring waves.

Notes:

Fisher: A person who fishes.

But: only.

Love: Like.

Perch: A fish with a big head, a big mouth, a flat body and thin scales, a green back and white belly, and a delicious taste. It grows quickly, is large and delicious.

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.

Wind wave: wave.

Extended information:

Literary appreciation:

This poem has simple language and vivid images. There are only twenty words in the whole poem, but its words are close but its purpose is far-reaching. , the words are shallow but profound, and can trigger rich associations. 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 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: 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 inexhaustible technique makes the poem implicit, meaningful, and memorable.

The poem is full of the poet's concern and sympathy for the fishermen who are driving small boats in the roaring waves. It also expresses the poet's advice to the people on the river who "only love the beauty of sea bass". . 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.

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