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As an outstanding poet in the late Tang Dynasty, Du Mu could not escape the fate of being teased by officialdom. In the second year of freshman year, Du Mu passed the Jinshi exam and began his career of realizing his ambition. He was awarded the title of Hong Wen Museum Scholar. After that, I stayed away from my hometown and worked as an official for many years. During this period, Du Mu wrote a series of books.
Since then, Du Mu has been an imperial envoy in his later years, but he has been absent from state affairs and has become a dispensable role. He also served as the governor of Huangzhou and Chizhou. Finally, his official position fell to the head of the secretariat. Du Mu's official career is not smooth, but his achievements in poetry can be said to be well-known. Du Mu is good at seven-character quatrains. Not only that, he is also very good at writing prose.
A song "Epang Palace Fu" tells the infinite bitterness of the decline of the dynasty. It reminds people of the past and makes the present feel sad. In addition to lamenting the cruelty of changing dynasties, he also thought about rhetoric and Du Mu's thoughts and wishes, which have been passed down to later generations. Du Mu attaches great importance to military accomplishment. He prefers military papers and the endorsed Art of War, so that future generations can better understand the excellent operational principles and strategies during the Warring States period. He hopes to serve the court through his meager strength.
Most of Du Mu's works are collected in Fan Wenchuan Collection, which is well preserved. This provides a good help for future generations to understand and study Du Mu's ideological spirit.
Du Mu's Poems
Du Mu's poems can be divided into two types, one is heroic and the other is romantic. Du Mu's poems are often sentimental, sometimes nostalgic and sometimes sentimental, expressing whimsy. The latter recorded different scenes in a fresh style, and the tone of the poem was mainly praise.
Artistic conception of Du Mu's poems
Du Mu cared about the country and the people all his life. He is ambitious. In addition, his delicacy and emotion make Du Mu's poems beautiful and elegant. This is unparalleled in the late Tang Dynasty, and the whole Tang Dynasty couldn't even find the second place.
Du Mu can find unique beauty in the daily landscape and find the artistic conception that is most suitable for the current tone. Du Mu endowed poetry with spirituality through the description of pictures and the sustenance of emotional thoughts. Praise for nature is also the expression of Du Mu's own will. Poems in the late Tang Dynasty often contain Du Mu's true feelings.
In the expression of poetry, Du Mu often uses straightforward fu to say things, which is also the reason why Du Mu's poetic style is unrestrained. His poems are vivid and infectious, which is closely related to his good metaphor, lyrical scenery and comparative performance of scenery.
Influenced by Du Fu and Han Yu, Du Mu's ancient poems are narrative, argumentative and lyrical, forming his own style school. His poems became the target of later generations.
Du Mu's quatrains are very successful, enjoy a high reputation and are highly respected by people. The world speaks highly of his quatrains. Du Mu's lyrical landscape and beautiful artistic conception have surpassed the level of quatrains in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Du Mu is good at extracting the essence from the beauty of natural scenery and the image of China. His quatrains are mixed with scenes, implicit and concise, catchy, and deeply loved by people.
Du Mude's story
Du Mu is smart, honest and respected. His poems are bold, fresh and have their own unique style. Although he was from the late Tang Dynasty, he was ambitious. After Du Mu failed to serve the country, he left some stories that have been handed down to this day, showing another side of Du Mu.
Du Mude's story
Although Du Mu was very talented, he didn't achieve much in politics. He never found the person he loved. At the end of Taihe, Du Mu was demoted as an official and changed from an imperial adviser to an assistant minister. It is said that Huzhou is famous for geisha. Du Mu also wanted to see for himself, and proposed to hold a meeting for all geisha in Huzhou to see.
The governor of Huzhou also held a meeting according to Du Mu's wishes. It was a sea of people that day. Du Mu is selfish. He is always looking for a beautiful woman to take care of. But he never found her. It's almost evening. Suddenly, Du Mu saw an old lady with a little girl in the village. She is so beautiful that she is engaged to the old woman's daughter. He said that he would come here as a governor in less than ten years. Then you will marry this girl to me, and I will treat her well.
After he left, Du Mu was still thinking about the girl, but his official position was too low to ask Huzhou. Du Mu worked as a governor in other places for a period of time, but it was not his intention. When Du Mu was forty-one, he was recommended as the magistrate of Huzhou, but it was agreed that the woman had been married for three years and had three sons.
Du Mu blamed the old lady for not keeping her word. The old lady said that I kept the agreement and asked my little daughter to wait for you in ten years. But ten years have passed, you haven't come yet, and I have no plans to get married. Du Mu felt indefensible and stopped asking.