About Du Mu's life and works Du Mu's life is ups and downs. When I was a child, my family was in good condition and I never suffered. Then his family came down. After becoming an official in North Korea, he also experienced the ups and downs of officialdom and finally returned to his hometown to die.
The rich life experience provided sufficient material for Du Mu's poetry creation, and he made many friends by traveling around the world. Even in his later years, he often got together with friends at home to exchange experiences in poetry.
Because he lived in the late Tang Dynasty and experienced several dynasties, Du Mu's political ideas could not be realized, so he integrated his ideas into his poems to express and ease his feelings.
Du Mu's works are full of flowers in ancient poems, metrical poems, quatrains, strategies, essays and other aspects, especially his seven-character quatrains, which are relished by future generations. Du Mu's main work, Collected Works of Fan Chuan, contains many poems, which have been sorted out by later generations and spread to this day.
Du Mu's poetry and prose works mainly focus on the political malpractice at that time, describing the national conditions of the late Tang Dynasty, expressing his political opinions and his depressed mood of lack of talent, such as Poem of Feeling My Feelings, Wild Goose, Red Cliff and so on. Du Mu's articles are mainly comments on the political environment at that time, which are sharp and to the point, such as Epanggong Fu, Sin Yan and On War.
Du Mu served as an official in the DPRK all his life and witnessed the alternation of several generations of rulers. After several ups and downs, I never get what I want politically, so I can only express my feelings in words. Du Mu has always been a typical representative of poets. He wrote many poems in his life, only 524 of which have spread to modern times, and he is considered as a prolific poet.
What are Du Mu's poems? Du Mu's poems are many, including ancient poems, regular poems and quatrains, among which the most famous is the seven-character quatrains. After his death, his nephew Pei Yan compiled 450 poems and revised them into 20 volumes of Fan Chuanji. Later, with the supplement of later generations, Du Mu's poems add up to 486 topics and 524 poems.
Pictures of Du Mu's Qingming Festival
Du Mu's famous poems include Qingming, Mountain Walking, Bo Qinhuai, Autumn Night, Farewell and so on. , and the original of Zhang's "Poetry" was handed down from generation to generation. Du Mu's poems are bold and handsome, just like his people.
The first two sentences of Du Mu's Bo Qinhuai describe the night scene of Qinhuai at that time, satirizing the negative wine and meat life of the late Tang regime and lamenting the fate of the country with the historical fact that Chen Houzhu died because of debauchery.
The "Ten-year Yangzhou Dream" in Farewell expresses Du Mu's sigh that he has accomplished nothing in ten years and reflects his political frustration. The phrase "winning a brothel with poverty" is quite self-deprecating, because he is unhappy and deeply debauched.
Du Mu wrote his life experience into his works and expressed his political frustration through poetry, which is also the writing style of many other famous poets. Du Mu's poems have various forms, and his true feelings are added to his works, so his works are highly praised by later generations.