Du Fu was a saint of the Tang Dynasty, and almost every one of his poems can be called a model of textbooks, especially his works in his later years are "old and old", reaching the point of perfection;
Therefore, he was praised as the "poet saint" by later generations, and his poems are also known as "epics", and Li Bai became a pair of dazzling "Gemini constellations" in the starry sky of Tang literature.
I only love his depressed, thick and elegant poetic style, in the Tang Dynasty poetry circle, Du Fu's poems are like stars in the night sky, dazzling and radiant.
Every poem is his painstaking work, and the poem "Traveling Night Book" read today is a classic masterpiece of five laws in Du Fu's later years.
Traveling in the night
The fine grass and breeze on the shore, the dangerous canoe at night.
The stars hang down and the plains are wide, and the moon swells and the rivers flow.
Famous articles, officials should be old and sick.
What is fluttering, the world is a sand gull.
In 765 AD, Du Fu resigned in the first month of that year and returned to Du Fu's thatched cottage in Chengdu.
Three months later, his friend Yan Wu died, and Du Fu lost his support, so he took his family from Chengdu to the east by boat, and wrote this poem during the journey.
The poet parked the boat by the river at night, and saw the breeze blowing the fine grass on the riverbank, and the boat with a high mast moored lonely on a moonlit night, looking at a flat and vast field, the sky was lowered, and it seemed that the stars were falling from a distance, and the river was rushing and surging, and the moonlight was undulating, and it seemed like the moon was surging from afar.
thought that although he was good at writing articles, his reputation was not obvious, not to mention that he was old and sick, and the official was dismissed. The wandering self is like a sand gull in the vast world.
Through the scenery he saw during the journey, the poet expressed his loneliness on the way, the feeling of the insignificance of life, the sorrow of time and the injustice of political frustration.
Kant said that "there are two things in the world that can deeply shake people's hearts, one is the lofty moral code in our hearts, and the other is the brilliant starry sky above our heads", the beginning of this poem shows the loneliness under the starry sky vividly.
Fine grass breeze shore, dangerous lonely night boat", an old man standing alone, looking at the starry sky, blowing the breeze, leaning on the dangerous tree, guarding the lonely boat, what kind of loneliness and loneliness is this!
The stars are wide and the plains are wide, and the moon is surging and the rivers are flowing", the stars are in the wilderness, empty and lonely, the water and the sky are the same color, the moonlight is like water, and I forget about things, what kind of life situation and experience is this!
Famous article, the official should be old and sick", on this leaf lonely boat, there is no one to be a companion, old and frail, riddled with diseases, and his life has gone through the ups and downs of the sea, joys and sorrows, this is the sorrow of the poet, or the sorrow of the times!
Fluttering what it looks like, the world is a sand gull", alone in a lonely boat, looking up at the starry sky, overlooking the river, seeing things and thinking about people, thinking of their own miserable situation, like a lonely sand gull, flying alone in this vast night sky.
Reading the whole poem, I can't help but think of the sentence in Du Fu's "Ascending":
He is often a guest in the sad autumn, and he has been on stage alone for more than a hundred years.
Hardship, bitterness, hatred, frost and sideburns, pouring down a new turbid wine glass. ”
Both poems are the painstaking work of his later years, and they are both the same.
At the same time, it makes the reader think of life in the universe between the lines of his thick words, "Life is infinite from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is always similar every year."
Under the vast starry sky, isn't each of us a sand gull?
In general, the first couplet of the poem depicts a miniature scene, and the emotions are delicate; The jaw couplet paints a wide scene, and the mood is unrestrained.
From near to far, from small to large, from the small to the small, from the small and lonely scenery and the uniqueness of people, and then from the contrast with the vast time and space to push the emotions of the poem to a climax.
The silent nature and the vast world are more likely to trigger the poet's thoughts and questions about life.
According to historical records, Du Fu was the most miserable in his later years, the lamp of life was finally extinguished in a small boat on the Xiangjiang River, and a bright star in the night sky of the Tang Dynasty fell in loneliness.
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