Du Fu's story in his later years.

1, Du Fu was poor and hungry in his later years. This can be seen from "The Hut is Broken by Autumn Wind". "Cloth cold iron for many years, jiao son lying cracks. There is no dry place in the bedside table, and the feet are numb with rain. The night is long, how can you get wet? " This poem was written in 76 1 year. The Anshi rebellion has not subsided and the people have been displaced. Coupled with natural disasters and storms, his thatched cottage has been blown to the other side of the river, and the urchin has also been taken away. The family looked forward to the dawn on a rainy night.

Du Fu used to sell medicine because he had no life. This also contains a bitter history of the poet's life. At the age of 35, the poet arrived in Chang 'an, the then capital, where he was attacked by treacherous court official Li. After the failure of the imperial examination, he became more and more difficult and embarrassed economically. In order to make a living, he found a sideline selling medicine. On the way to deliver the medicine, I tasted all kinds of hardships as a condition of accepting others' help.

In 759 AD, Du Fu was 48 years old and lived in Qin Zhou, now Tianshui, Gansu. At this time, his life was even more difficult, so he sold medicine for the second time. In his poems, there are many scenes of collecting medicines, making medicines and selling medicines. For example, there is a saying in "Twenty Poems of Qinzhou" that "a wife should not bask in medicine, and a child should not answer the door". It can be seen that even Du Fu's wife took part in pharmacy at this time.

He is diligent in irrigation and planting all kinds of herbs. At the same time, as in Chang 'an before, people were sent to the city from time to time to exchange drug prices. When the poet sold medicine for the last time, life was even more miserable. In 770 AD, Du Fu was 59 years old. He was so poor that he didn't even have a place to live on land that he had to live on a boat. In Tanzhou, the lower reaches of Xiangjiang River, Du Fu, who is old and frail, set up a stall in the fish market to sell medicine to support his family.

5. This winter. The scholar died of poverty and disease. From the history of Du Fu's selling medicine, we can deeply feel that even a talented poet's fate was so tragic and lamentable in that turbulent era.