However, here in Du Fu, spring has a different feeling. Du Fu experienced "An Shi Rebellion", and his poetic achievements were mainly concentrated in this period.
Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night Du Fu lived in Chengdu Caotang for about two years when he wrote this poem. There was a drought in Chengdu from last winter to February this year. This is the poet's mood after a long drought. "Seeing red and wet places, flowers are more important than Jinguancheng" is not reality, but the poet's imagination and expectation. It fully shows the poet's feelings about people's livelihood expressed through poetry.
In the poem "Spring Hope", the poet drifted to Chang 'an in the "An Shi Rebellion". Although it is already spring, the sight of birds and flowers makes the poet feel uncomfortable, sad, helpless, lost and worried. . . The poet transplanted this feeling into the spring scenery of birds and flowers; So there is the eternal aesthetic swan song of "where petals flow like tears, lonely birds sing sad songs"!
Can it be said that spring in Du Fu's eyes is somewhat different from other poets and ordinary people? In other words, Du Fu never enjoyed spring like other poets and people? This is also determined by Du Fu's "gloomy" poetic style?
Du Fu was trapped by "An Shi Rebellion" all his life, and he was traumatized by the war in the process of being displaced from place to place. Incapacity is intertwined with worrying about the country and the people; "The mountains will separate us tomorrow. Who can say for sure after tomorrow?" (Du Fu: To Wei Ba Chu Shi) Where is he in the mood to appreciate the beauty of spring like others?