An analysis of Du Fu's depressed mountaineering style.

Du Fu's Ascending the Mountain was written in the autumn of the second year of Dali, and the poet died of illness in Kuizhou. The first four sentences of the poem describe the scenery, and the last four sentences are lyrical, generous and gripping, which embodies the depressed and frustrated style of Du Fu's poems and is praised by later generations as the crown of the seven laws of ancient and modern times.

In the first couplet, the poet used the word "Fengchong" to drive the whole couplet around the specific environment of Kuizhou. Kuizhou is famous for its many apes, and the canyon is famous for its windy weather. It is cool in autumn, but it is windy here. When the poet climbs the mountain, the sound of "high apes whistling" comes from the gorge, which means "the empty valley echoes, and the sorrow turns to leisurely" ("Water Classics Notes Rivers"). The poet moved his eyes from the heights to the rivers and lakes, and on the background of clear water and white sand, he was dotted with birds dancing with the wind and never looking back. Among them, heaven, wind, sand, Zhu, ape whistling and bird flying are naturally paired, reaching a wonderful realm.

Zhuan Xu embodies the typical characteristics of Kuizhou in autumn. The poet looked up at the endless rustling leaves and looked down at the endless rolling river. While writing about the scenery, he expressed his feelings affectionately. Endless and inexhaustible, it makes the rustling roll more vivid, which reminds people of the rustling of fallen trees and the surging Yangtze River, and invisibly conveys the feeling that youth is fleeting and ambition is hard to pay. Through the gloomy and sad dialogue, it shows superb brushwork, and it does have the majestic momentum of "repairing the palace" and "pouring hundreds of rivers into the east".

The poet summed up the feelings of this old guest, who is most likely to be sad and sick, and loves to go on stage alone, into a pair of couplets that are "bold, broad, honest and loud", making people deeply feel his heavy emotional pulse. The "Wan Li" and "Centennial" of this couplet also echo the "Boundless" and "Endless" of the previous couplet: the poet's wandering worries and loneliness, like fallen leaves and rivers, are inexhaustible and can't be driven away, and the feelings and scenery blend together. At this point, the poem has given the general meaning of missing a stranger, added the content of loneliness after a long separation, added the feeling of sadness and pain in autumn, added the sigh of people who have left their homes in Wan Li and are in their twilight years, and is more poetic.

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