The author who makes his heart burst into tears when he sings the Duhu song is: Li Bai.
Li Bai (701-December 762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "The Exiled Immortal", was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty and was hailed as the "Poetry Immortal" by later generations. , and Du Fu are collectively called "Li Du". In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, who are "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively called "Big Li Du".
"When he sings the Duhu Song, his heart bursts into tears" is a verse in "Ding Duhu Song". Li Bai roamed the land of the motherland and wrote many poems praising the rivers and mountains of the motherland. Li Bai was a man who cared deeply about the sufferings of the people. During his travels, he sympathized with the sufferings of the people and interacted with the working people. He wrote a few poems that reflected the sufferings of the working people and expressed his deep affection and sincere gratitude to the working people. This "Ding Duhu Song" is a poem describing the pain of civilians tugging a boat.
As for the creation time of this poem, Huang Xigui's "Chronicle of Li Bai's Poems" believes that it was written when Li Bai visited Hengshan in Danyang in 747 AD (the sixth year of Tianbao). At that time, Li Guo roamed Haoyue for the second time and was on his way south. Passing through Yunyang (now Danyang, Jiangxi). Some people also believe that this poem was written in 738 AD (the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan) when Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province) assassinated Qi Han for digging a new river there. Li Bai saw how stones were transported by water from Yunyang at that time. , because he wrote this poem with the title of a local ancient song.