The hometown of Shu Emperor Du Yu is Zhaotong, Yunnan.
According to Yang Xiong's "The Book of the King of Shu": "Later there was a man named Du Yu who fell from the sky and stopped Zhu Ti." Zhu Ti in ancient times is today's Zhaotong in Yunnan. Therefore, the hometown of Shu Emperor Du Yu should be Zhaotong, Yunnan.
Folk legend says that after the death of Shu Emperor Du Yu, his soul turned into a cuckoo bird. In ancient my country, many poems were written about Du Yu (Du Juan, Zigui).
my country’s ancient poetry is rich and colorful and has a long history. In this splendid river of poetry, quite a few poems are works that convey feelings to objects. The entrusted things are also varied and interesting. The cuckoo is a favorite of ancient poets.
The cuckoo has a black-grey body, white spots on its tail, and black horizontal stripes on its belly. It often cries day and night from late spring to early summer. It is a beneficial bird. Folk legend: At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, Du Yu, king of Shu, was named Emperor Wang. After his death, his soul turned into a cuckoo bird that cried blood. The cry of this bird is sad and shrill. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", "its cry is like: 'It's better to go back!'" Therefore, it is closely related to the sadness and sorrow caused by missing the country, homesickness, and missing people. The fate of solution. From the Chu Ci of the Warring States Period, Tang poetry, Song poetry to the Sanqu of the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to the general name Dujuan, ancient poets also gave it other nicknames such as Zigui, Songjuan (Crying Bird), Shuniao (Shu Soul, Shujuan), Du Yu and other nicknames. Some poems related to the cuckoo bird are compiled below.
1. Rhododendron
The trees are towering in thousands of valleys, and the cuckoos ring in thousands of mountains. (Wang Wei, Tang Dynasty, "Farewell to Zizhou Li Shijun")
What did you hear during the day and night? The cuckoo cries and the blood ape moans. (Tang Dynasty? Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing")
In the rainy night, I eat wild rice in Gangtou, and the cuckoo's mouth bleeds and the old man bursts into tears. ("Song of an Old Man Picking Jade" by Li He of the Tang Dynasty)
Zhuang Sheng dreamed of butterflies at dawn, and looked forward to the emperor's spring heart entrusted to the cuckoo. (Li Shangyin's "Jin Se" of the Tang Dynasty)
It's a cold spring when the solitary house is closed, and the sun sets in the dusk amid the sound of cuckoos. (Song Dynasty, Qin Guan's "Treading on the Shasha, Binzhou Hotel")
It's even more embarrassing, the partridges are singing, and the cuckoos are singing! (Song Dynasty, Xin Qiji's "Congratulations to the Bridegroom, Farewell to Maojia's Twelfth Brother")
The cuckoo cries and returns in spring, but the blood still lingers on the kiss. (Song Dynasty? Anonymous)
Looking at the emperor’s spring heart, he cares for the cuckoo, and the beautiful lady complains about her years. (Jin Yuanhaowen's "Twelve of Thirty Poems")
You can smell the cuckoos in spring, and see the returning swallows in the autumn moon. (Wu Xiyi of the Yuan Dynasty, "The Order of Victory for Wild Gooses Falling with Their Belts")
I don't say anything about the green mountains, but the cuckoos ring in the green mountains. (Ming Dynasty Li Wen's "Bodhisattva Barbarian Recalling Future People")
2. Zigui
The spring is fragrant and green, and Zigui cries in the clear night. ("Sleeping at Qipanling" by Shen Quanqi of the Tang Dynasty)
Hearing Zigui's cry again, I feel sad about the empty mountain at night. (Tang Dynasty? Li Bai's "The Road to Shu is Difficult")
When the poplar flowers have fallen, Zigui cries, and he hears the dragon marking the road crossing the five streams. (Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty wrote "I heard that Wang Changling moved to the left and Longbiao was far away")
The flowers are falling and the children are crowing, and the green window is full of dreams! (Tang Dynasty Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva Barbarian Chapter Six")
The mountains are green and the rivers are white, and the rain is like smoke in the sound of the rules. ("April in the Countryside" by Weng Juan of the Song Dynasty)
3. Cuckoo (Crying Bird)
From now on, I will leave Jiangnan Road and turn into a cuckoo and return with blood. ("Jinling Station" by Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty)
The singing bird still knows how to hate, but it does not cry clear tears and cries blood. ("Congratulations to the Bridegroom, Farewell to the Twelfth Brother of Maojia" by Xin Qiji of the Song Dynasty)
The sea air is always dark, the singing of birds is dry, and there is no spring in the world. (Yuan Qiaoji's "Order of Gui Gui Bingzi Travels to Yue Nostalgia")
Falling flowers have tears because of wind and rain, and birds have ruthlessly cried since ancient times. (Qing Dynasty? Qu Dajun's "Renxu Qingming Works")
4. Shu Bird (Shu Soul, Shu Cuckoo)
Sichuan Bird In the lingering light of the Wu flowers, can you bear to see the ruined city and the decaying walls? (Song Dynasty Wen Tianxiang's "Farewell to Friends in Niannu Jiaoyi")
No matter how much the cuckoo sings in the blood-smoke tree, it will not bring back a spring dream. (Yuan Aruwei's "Falling Plum Blossoms")
5. Du Yu
Ruthless Du Yu is mischievous, his head goes straight up to the base of his ears, and his voice is heartbreaking. (Yuan Zengrui's "Nan Lu scolds the jade man for overestimating the emperor's kindness and picks tea songs? I hear the cuckoo in the boudoir")
The bloody flowers cry out to Du Yu, and the vagina roars to Fei Lian. (Yuan? Zhang Kejiu's red embroidered shoes? Tiantai Waterfall Temple))
A farewell wine, a shout of Du Yu, loneliness and the end of spring.
(Yuan Dynasty Liu Yange's "Taichang Yin")