The verses containing Xiao are as follows:
1. When dawn looks at the red and wet places, the flowers are heavy on the official city.
2. The candle shadow on the mica screen is deep, and the long river is gradually setting and the stars are sinking.
3. When you look into the mirror at dawn, you will be worried about the clouds on your temples. When you sing at night, you should feel the cold moonlight.
Introduction to Du Fu:
Du Fu (February 12, 712-770), also known as Shaoling Yelao, was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, and a close friend of Li Bai. Collectively known as Li Du. Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he later moved to Gongxian County, Henan Province. In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".
Du Fu once He traveled to Wuyue and Qi and Zhao successively, during which he went to Luoyang and failed to pass the examination. After he was 35 years old, he first took the examination in Chang'an and failed. Later, he presented gifts to the emperor and failed in officialdom, and witnessed the decline of the upper class in the Tang Dynasty. Extravagance and social crisis. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out and Tongguan fell. Du Fu moved to many places.
The second year of Qianyuan (759). ) Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he escaped the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the common people and national affairs. He created famous works such as "Ascend the High", "Spring View", "Northern Expedition", "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells". . Although Du Fu is a realist poet, he also has a wild and unrestrained side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroic spirit from his famous work "Song of Eight Immortals in Drinking"
The core of Du Fu's thoughts is the idea of ??benevolent government. He had the grand ambition of "bringing to the emperors Yao and Shun, and making customs pure". Although Du Fu was not famous during his lifetime, he later became famous and had a profound influence on both Chinese literature and Japanese literature. 1,500 poems have been preserved, most of which are collected in "Du Gongbu Collection"
In the winter of the fifth year of Dali (770), Du Fu died of illness at the age of fifty-nine. His influence was so profound that he was honored as the Saint of Poetry by later generations, and his poems were called "History of Poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Caotang.