"The wine and meat in the rich family stink, and there are freezing bones on the road" in the eighth-grade textbook.
This sentence comes from Du Fu's "Five Hundred Words of Empathy from Beijing to Fengxian County", which means that the red-painted gates of noble families exude the smell of wine and meat, and there are frozen skeletons on the roadside.
This poem was written by Du Fu when he went from Chang'an to Fengxian County (today's Pucheng, Shaanxi Province) to visit his wife and children shortly after he was awarded the title of right guard and led the governor to join the army.
Appreciation
The poet's thoughts and emotions, such as concern for the country and the people, loyalty to the king, missing his family, and being unappreciated for his talents, are intricately intertwined to form this vast, melancholy and frustrating masterpiece. . This poem profoundly reflects the sharp social contradictions at that time. The ancient famous saying "The wine and meat in the rich family smells bad, and the bones on the road are frozen to death" vividly reveals the social reality of the great disparity between the rich and the poor. The poem reflects the suffering of the people and exposes the dissolute corruption of the ruling group. It is the first long work in Du Fu's "epic".