Li Shangyin and Du Mu were from the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shangyin was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. He and Du Mu were collectively known as "Little Li Du". About 600 poems he wrote in his lifetime have been handed down, and his love poems and untitled poems are especially well-known. His poems have a unique style, which makes people feel a hazy and graceful beauty. Of course, career and love were full of ups and downs, and he implicitly reflected his emotions and life in his poems.
Characteristics
Du Mu was 10 years older than Li Shangyin. He had few poetic names. It's the same as Li Shangyin. He didn't pass the imperial examination until he was 26 years old. However, based on Li Shangyin's passing situation, it is inevitable that Du Mu successfully obtained the Jinshi because he was in the Niu Party system.
Du Mu’s career was also very short, and he lived to be 49 years old. Li Shangyin is 46 years old. The relatively similar experiences of Du Mu and Li Shangyin are that they were both engaged in shogunate work. They entered official careers because they were appreciated by the master of the shogunate and they were very diligent and hardworking.
But after entering the official career, he was also affected by the party struggle like Li Shangyin. To be honest, none of them are the ones who decide the fate of the empire. On the contrary, their fate has always been influenced by others. Although Du Mu is regarded as a powerful party member, he is actually a family friend of Li Deyu, the leader of the Li party, and one of his suggestions for pacifying the captives was also favored and adopted by Li Deyu.
It can be said that Du Mu is a relatively noble person, but like Li Shangyin, they all want to do what they want and will be restricted by various environments. In other words, they have no say in personnel matters or national policies. That is to say, although Du Mu is 10 years older than Li Shangyin, Du Mu has no say in Li Shangyin's personnel matters. It is precisely because of their experience in the shogunate that Du Mu and Li Shangyin were a step into their official careers, but it was also their ceiling. They cannot enter the center of power at the heart of the empire.
What a life full of ups and downs. In the 7th year of Yamato, Du Mu almost died. Because the famous manna change occurred. This nectar change was caused by the eunuch coercing the emperor to kill his ministers. And because he is regarded as a good party, he will not be reused when the Li party is in power.