Du Fu called himself Shaoling Ye Lao, a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, whose ancestral home was Xiangyang and Li Bai were collectively called "Li Du". Later generations called it Du Gong Department, Du Shizhi, also known as Du Shaoling, Du Caotang. So today we will study and study, is Du Fu's thatched cottage really a broken thatched house?
If Du Fu built an ordinary thatched house, just like the peasant thatched hut he saw today, would he need to be so enthusiastic and aggressive?Therefore, it can be inferred that what Du Fu built back then was not an ordinary house, but a mansion or villa-level building. From Du Fu's own poems, we can get a glimpse of one or two: "The back of Guo Tang becomes a cute white grass, and the Yuanjiang Road is ripe and overlooks the suburbs." Alder forests hinder the sun and chant wind leaves, cage bamboos and smoke droplets dew tips. Can the house written in the poem be a simple "thatched cottage" and a dilapidated house?
Next, Du Fu continued to expand the garden, and after planting peach trees extensively, the grass hall increased from one acre to five acresAfter the peach forest was built, bamboo forests and alder forests were built. Moreover, Du Fu gave specific data in the poem "How to Find Alder Planting": "I have heard that alder is three years old, and it is ten acres of shade by the stream." In other words, the alder forest covers an area of ten acres. So how big is the bamboo forest?An expanse of the sky. The poem "Cuckoo" says more bluntly: "I used to travel to Jincheng and settle by the water;There is more than one hectare of bamboo, and the arbor is towering to the sky. "Isn't this a place for the poor?This is probably more fascinating than Tao Yuanming's "Xanadu"!
Historian Guo Moruo described in his book Li Bai and Du Fu that the thatch of Du Fu's thatched cottage should have three layers, which indicates that the roof has been renovated twice: "Generally speaking, the first one is about four or five inches thick, and the third is more than a foot thick. Such thatched huts are warm in winter and cool in summer, and sometimes they are more elaborate than tiled houses. ”
Therefore, Du Fu's life and economic situation at that time were not bad, and his "poverty" was really a misunderstanding of his living situation at that time. In his poem "The Thatched House is Broken by the Autumn Wind", the so-called "the bedside house leaks without a dry place, and the rain feet are like hemp and are not cut off", which is the realism after the roof was blown by the wind, so it was mistaken by later generations that his life was very down.
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