唐宪宗元和元年(公元八○六年),柳宗元因参与王叔文政治集团的改革,而被贬至永州(今湖南零陵县)作司马。在将近十年形同禁锢的孤寂生涯中,他尽情游荡山水,希冀以西南边陲的山情水趣医治心灵的创伤。用他自己在《禺溪诗序》中的话说,就是:“余虽不合于俗,亦颇以文墨自慰。漱涤万物,牢笼百态,而无所避之。”他以自己特有的饱蘸诗情画意而色彩绚丽的笔触,写下了大量的独具风格的山水游记,《永州八 Tang Xianzong and the first year (805 AD), Liu Zongyuan was relegated to Yongzhou (now Lingling County, Hunan Province) as Sima for participating in the reform of Wang Shuwen’s political group. In the lonely life that was confined to the past for nearly ten years, he hugged the landscape and hoped to heal the wounds of the heart with the mountains and waters of the southwest border. Using his own words in the “Preface to the Poems of the Suixi River”, he said: “Easy though it is not in the ordinary, I am quite convinced by words and inks. I have nothing but ignorance.” He has his own special fullness. With poetic and colorful strokes, she wrote a lot of unique landscape travel notes, “Yongzhou Eight.”