1. Background: This poem was written in 736 when Du Fu was traveling to Qi and Zhao at the age of 25. It was at the time when his mind was in full swing, and he climbed Mount Tai, the head of the Five Mountains. He expressed his ambition through the mountains and was uninhibited. Full of imagination throughout. Du Fu claimed to be a young and wild old man, who was known as Du Shaoling and Du Gongbu. Han nationality, Gongyi, Gongxian County, Henan Province, now Zhengzhou, originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province. Life is rough. Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and his poems were mostly about social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His famous poem Wang Yue was created under this background.
2. Original text: Looking at Yue
Author Du Fu, Tang Dynasty
what a majestic sight of holy Mountain Tai!? Out of Qilu, still visible the green peak.
the Maker endowed all the mystic Nature grace here, and? a day at once into dawn and dusk comes by..
Ceng Yun, and the birds fly back and forth before my strained eye..
once climbing to the top of the peek, one would see, the other mountains all appear dwarfs under the sky..
3. Translation:
How majestic is Mount Tai? Walking out of Qilu, you can still see the green peak. The magical nature brings together thousands of beautiful scenery, and the south of the mountain separates the morning and the evening. Layers of white clouds, cleaning up the gullies in the chest; Return to the bird and fly into the eye of the scenery. We must climb the peak of Mount Tai and overlook the mountains, full of lofty sentiments.