The original poem is as follows:
Recover the north and south of the Yellow River
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
The news of this distant western station! The north has been recovered! At first, I couldn't stop crying on my coat.
Where are my wife and son? There is not a trace of sadness on their faces. However, I packed my books and poems crazily.
On a green spring day, I began to go home, singing my songs loudly and drinking my wine.
Come back from this mountain, pass another mountain, go up from the south and then go north-to my own town! .
Translation:
Outside the sword gate, the good news came suddenly, and the loyalists recovered the northern part of Hebei. When I am happy, tears are all over my clothes. Looking back on his wife and children, he has also swept away the gloom and rolled up his poems, which made the whole family ecstatic. I want to drink and sing and go back to my hometown together in spring. My soul has already soared, so I went from the dam to Wuxia, then to Xiangyang and went straight to Luoyang.
Background of extended data creation
The two banks of the Yellow River were recaptured by the Imperial Army was written in the spring of the first year of Guangde, Tang Daizong. In the winter of the first year of Baoying (762), Tang Jun won a great victory in Hengshui near Luoyang, and recovered Luoyang, Zheng (now Zhengzhou, Henan) and Bian (now Kaifeng, Henan). The rebel leaders Xue Song and Zhang Zhongzhi surrendered one after another.
In the second year, Shi Siming's son, Shi Chaoyi, was defeated and hanged himself, and his troops surrendered to Tian and Li Huaixian one after another. At this point, the eight-year "An Shi Rebellion" came to an end. Du Fu is a poet who loves his motherland and suffers from troubled times. At that time, he lived in Sichuan. After hearing the news, he was ecstatic and wrote this poem.
In the late reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, various crises lurked in the prosperous society of the Tang Dynasty. In 755 AD, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the Tang Dynasty quickly turned into a rebellion of decline. The Anshi Rebellion lasted for seven years, which brought profound and lasting disasters to the country and changed the fate of the poet Du Fu. When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Du Fu was trapped in Chang 'an by rebels.
Later, he fled to Tang Suzong alone to fight the rebels in Fengxiang, and was soon relegated for offending Su Zong. Due to war and famine, Du Fu was unable to support his family. He abandoned his official position and trudged to the relatively stable Sichuan area.
In the winter of 762 AD, Tang Jun won a great victory in Hengshui near Luoyang, and recovered Luoyang and other places in Henan. In the second year, the "An Shi Rebellion" which lasted for more than seven years came to an end. Du Fu was ecstatic after hearing the news, and wrote this song "The Imperial Army Recovered the Banks of the Yellow River".
The "Henan and Hebei" in the title is not the present Henan and Hebei provinces, but the "river" refers to the Yellow River, and Henan and Hebei refer to the Central Plains on both sides of the Yellow River. According to historical records, after the Anshi Rebellion, Shu was unstable, and Du Fu lived in Yun 'an and Kuizhou. At the age of 57, he finally got out of the Three Gorges by boat, but he was still wandering on the water road of Hubei and Hunan generations.
59 years old, died on a boat near Leiyang, Hunan! Du Fu is one of the greatest poets in Chinese history. He spent almost the rest of his life living a hard life with his family in a turbulent situation and didn't have much time to live a quiet life.
The simple and sincere joy expressed in "The Two Banks of the Yellow River were recaptured by the Imperial Army" is in sharp contrast with the tragic ending of the poet who did not return to his hometown until his death, which deeply shocked us.