Du Fu, a "poet saint", was born in Du Shi, Jingzhao, a northern university student. When I was a teenager, I lived a relatively stable and rich life because of my superior family environment. Du Fu has been eager to learn since he was a child. At the age of seven, he was able to write poems. "At the age of seven, I thought I was strong, and I sang the phoenix with my mouth open." He is interested in "making the monarch Yao and Shun, and then making the customs pure."
However, after his father died, his family went from bad to worse, especially after he was 30 years old, and Du Fu's life had reached the level of poverty. In desperation, he had to take refuge in powerful people.
Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems involve social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time. His poems recorded the historical changes of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they were called "the history of poetry".
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At that time, the life of dignitaries was extravagant. In order to be arty, I had to raise a group of guests under the door to accompany them to sing poems and enjoy the flowers and the moon. Although Du Fu is quite talented in poetry, his life as a guest has made him feel humiliated. He could feel that these nobles didn't really treat him as an equal, he was just a patron.
"Button rich door, evening with fat horse dust. Broken cups are everywhere. " A few lines in Wei Zuocheng's Twenty-two Rhymes express his inner injustice and resentment.
Because Du Fu is not good at words and refuses to kneel down to curry favor, the guest money is getting less and less. To make matters worse, Du Fu's health deteriorated with age. I have been suffering from malaria for several years, and I still have lung disease. I can't do heavy farm work, so I have to grow some herbs to support myself.
At the same time, he also received a little support from his friends Gao Shi and Zheng Qian, and made a living from it. Due to his meager income, Du Fu gradually could not afford the high housing prices in Chang 'an, and later moved to Ling Du in the southeast suburb of Chang 'an.
Ling Du is the mausoleum of Xuan Di, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the hometown of Du Fu, which is also the origin of Du Fu's later calling himself "Elymus Ling Du". ?
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