Yìqíng qījiān de chéngshì, jìng yǒu jǐ fēn qiān shān niǎo fēi jué de jìliáo.
The city during the pandemic had a touch of that 'thousand-mountain, no bird flies' loneliness.
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history
Opening line of 柳宗元《江雪》 (Liu Zongyuan, Tang, written during his exile to Yongzhou ca. 810 CE): 千山鸟飞绝，万径人踪灭。孤舟蓑笠翁，独钓寒江雪 (A thousand mountains - no bird flies; ten thousand paths - no human track. A lone boat, a straw-caped old man, fishing alone on the cold river's snow). One of the most famous 20-character poems in Chinese - a crystalline image of exile and solitude.
usage
Always recited with the next line 万径人踪灭 - together they form a parallel couplet. The four-character structure 千山...绝 / 万径...灭 is a classic example of 对仗 (tonal-grammatical parallelism).
