The Banquet Experience of Du Fu's Caotang

There are more than 1400 poems left by Du Fu, a great poet in Tang Dynasty. Du Fu's works have reached the perfect unity of ideological content and artistic form, representing the highest achievement of Tang poetry. Known as "the history of poetry" by later generations, it is also known as "the sage of poetry". However, it is such a famous great poet and official who abandoned his official in the second year of Su Zonggan Yuan and settled in Chengdu Caotang. However, he remained uncorrupted and his life was very difficult.

One day, two friends came to visit and discussed poetry with Du Fu, but Du Fu couldn't come up with a better meal to entertain the guests. He only has a handful of leeks and a few eggs, so it is difficult for him to make any tricks with his skillful hands. Du Fu looked at the green leeks and eggs and suddenly had a brainwave, remembering his song "Two orioles singing green willows and a line of egrets flying into the sky". The window contains autumn snow in Xiling, and the Wu Dong Wan Li boat stops at the door. "Poetry. So, after his careful operation, he served three dishes and one soup that made the guests applaud.

The first course is paved with green leeks, with two round egg yolks named "two orioles singing green willows"; The second set is still the bottom of leek, with a wisp of protein sprinkled on it, called "a row of egrets going up to the sky"; The third course, leeks are paved in a mountain shape, and the top of the mountain is stained with protein, which is called "the window contains snow in Xiling Qian Qiu"; The fourth is a big bowl of clear soup with four white eggshells floating on it, which is called "Wan Li ship with Soochow in Menbo".