The role of "Little Du Li" in the poetry circle of the late Tang Dynasty cannot but be compared with that of the great "Du Li" in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. If Li Bai and Du Fu jointly created an almost unattainable poetic peak in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, then Li Shangyin and Du Mu added a magnificent page to the declining poetic style in the late Tang Dynasty.
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Since Meng Jiao, Li He, Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu died in succession, the lively and vigorous poetic style in Yuanhe poetry gradually disappeared. It was not until the rise of a group of young poets, such as Du Mu and Li Shangyin, that the poetic style in the late Tang Dynasty got rid of the declining atmosphere and reappeared.
Du Mu (AD 803-852), born in Fanchuan, Mu Zhi, Han nationality, Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi, Shaanxi), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Du Mu is called "Xiao Du" to distinguish him from Du Fu. Also known as "Little Du Li" with Li Shangyin. Because he lived in South Fan Chuan Villa in Chang 'an in his later years, he was later called "Du Fanchuan" and wrote "Collected Works of Fan Chuan".
Du Mu was born in an official's family, and his grandfather Du You was both a great official and a scholar, with rich works. Such a family background has always been something that Xiao Du is proud of. He said in the poem: "Husband is a family, and Jane will taste it. Always open Zhumen first, in the center of Chang 'an. There was nothing, thousands of books was full. "It is a collection of 200 books, which is superior to both the emperor and the king."
Undoubtedly, this family tradition had a great influence on him, which made him always take the world as his responsibility, and he especially liked to write letters to the rulers to discuss political, military and economic issues. In his words, "I would like to sew clothes all my life" ("County Zhai Dui"), just like the slogan that heroes in Shangliang often hang on their lips: "Learn written martial arts and sell it to the royal family." It's a pity that all this is just his scholar's spirit, and the authorities don't adopt him as an armchair strategist. So his career is not very smooth. For more than ten years after he became a scholar at the age of 26, he spent most of his time immersed in the shogunate and didn't become a state official until he was forty. Therefore, his heart is often filled with a disheartened mood, and he has no choice but to spend his life in singing and dancing. His "dream of Yangzhou in ten years", his laziness and depression of "drinking like a dog" and his ambition of taking the world as his own responsibility have combined to form a complete Du Mu.
Du Mu was a scholar in Tang Wenzong in Daiwa two years. He was a censor, an envoy in Huangzhou, Chizhou and Zhoumu, and a scholar, foreign minister and China scholar. Du Mu had political ideals, but because of his straightforward personality, he was repeatedly excluded, his career was unsuccessful, and he lived a bohemian life in his later years. Du Mu's poems, poems and ancient prose are all famous and have the greatest achievements. He is as famous as Li Shangyin and is known as "Little Du Li". His poetic style is handsome, cold and beautiful, and unique. Especially good at seven-character poems and quatrains.
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Li Shangyin (8 13-858), born in Yuxi, was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Qinyang, Hanoi (now Jiaozuo, Henan) and Xingyang, Zhengzhou. He is good at poetry writing, and his parallel prose also has high literary value. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the late Tang Dynasty. Together with Du Mu, it is called "Xiao", and together with Wen, it is called "Wen Li". Because his poems and essays are similar to the paragraphs and essays of the same period, all three of them rank sixteenth in the family, so they are also called "Thirty-six Style". His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read. However, some poems are too obscure to be solved, and there is even a saying that "poets always love Quincy and hate that no one writes about Jian Zheng". Caught in the struggle between Niu and Li, I was frustrated all my life. After his death, he was buried in his hometown of Qinyang (now the junction of Qinyang and Aibo County in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province). His works are included in Li Yishan's poems.