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Ancient poor poets
1, Du Fu
Du Fu, a poet saint, lived with his family in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. His poems reflected the sufferings of people's livelihood and political turmoil at that time, and exposed the ugly behavior of the rulers. Since then, he has embarked on a life and creative road of worrying about the country and the people.
With the increasingly corrupt politics in the later period of Tang Xuanzong, his life became increasingly impoverished and disappointed. In a wandering life. The official career of the imperial examination was not smooth. He lived in Chang 'an for ten years, rushing around offering gifts, unhappy, frustrated in his official career and living in poverty.
2. Meng Jiao
Meng Jiao, a "prisoner of poetry", loves to write poems behind closed doors, and he died poor and had no money for funerals. Meng Jiao was born in a poor family and loved writing poems. If he can't write, he won't go out. Whoever dares to interrupt in the middle will be knocked unconscious. So did I after I was admitted to the civil service. After unemployment, there is no money and no food.
Han Yu and other friends are used to it. As long as he comes, he must have no money. When he died, he left a widow and had no money to send him out to mourn. It was a funeral arranged by Han Yu and others. People send the nickname "Meng borrows money".
3. Land tour
Lu You, a patriotic poet, resisted Jin Meng, but he was too poor to eat wild vegetables. Lu You lived in an era of confrontation between the North and the South in Song and Jin Dynasties. Frequent wars, serious damage to productivity, and people's livelihood. Lu You is a patriotic poet. His lifelong goal is to fight against the nomads from the Golden Army and recover the Central Plains.
However, he was repeatedly rejected and suppressed in his official career, and the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty only followed the capitulationist line with partiality. Lu You had a rough life and was down and out. Lu you lives in extreme poverty, often breaks cooking and often eats wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger. Lu You wrote many poems about wild vegetables based on his personal experience.
At the age of 68, Lu You wrote the poem "The Storm of November 4th": "A lonely village does not feel sorry for itself, but still wants to protect its family. Lying at night listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse glacier dream. " It also shows that he is sick all over, lying alone in the desolate countryside, poor and thinking about how to clean up the broken mountains and rivers. It's really admirable.