Draw the hardest bow and shoot the longest archery. If you shoot a person, you must shoot a horse. If you catch a thief, you must catch their leader. There should be restrictions on killing people, and all countries have national boundaries. As long as we can stop the enemy's aggression, is it necessary to kill more people in the war?
This poem is from the sixth poem of Du Fu's Nine Embankments.
Nine Frontier Poems, regarded as the tenth year of Tianbao (75 1) and written in the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), is a series of poems with military themes. This period was also the growth period of the Tang Dynasty, accompanied by the military expansion of the Tang Dynasty. Most of the court's predictions were optimistic, but Du Fu didn't quite agree with the military line of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty.
Zhu said that these nine poems were written for Geshuhan's fighting in Tubo in the last years of Tianbao. After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, in order to satisfy his desire for great success and plunder wealth, he constantly launched unjust wars in border areas.
In the sixth year of Tianbao (747), Dong attacked Tubo Shibao City; In the eighth year of Tianbao (749), Ge led 100,000 troops to attack Shibao City again, and most of the soldiers died in battle, with rivers of blood. In the tenth year of Tianbao (75 1 year), Jiannan was ordered by the Central China to attack Nanzhao, and 60,000 people died. Gao Xianzhi attacked the big food and An Lushan attacked the Khitan, and the people in both places suffered greatly. This group of poems was created under such a historical background.
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Use the best bow and arrow on the battlefield, shoot the horse first, and shoot the leader first when catching the enemy. These men described the battlefield situation, but the war brought only dead people, not to kill more people to stop the invasion of others (countries). This poem expresses the poet's strong dissatisfaction with the war.
Du Fu (7 12-770) was born in Xiangyang, Han nationality, and then moved to Gongxian County, Henan Province. A great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty, who claimed to be a young man at night, was called "Du Li" together with Li Bai. In order to distinguish Li Shangyin, Du Mu and Xiao Du Li, Du Fu and Li Bai are also called Da Du Li, and Du Fu is often called Lao Du.
Du Fu's influence on China's classical poetry is far-reaching, and he is called "the sage of poetry" by later generations, and his poems are called "the history of poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Caotang. Du Fu wrote such famous works as Spring Hope, Northern Expedition, Three Officials and Three Farewells.
In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he fled the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the whole life and the affairs of the country. Although Du Fu is a realistic poet, he also has a wild and unruly side.
It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroism and dry clouds from his masterpiece "Song of Drinking Eight Immortals". The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent government, and he has the great wish of "making the monarch Yao and Shun superior, and then making the customs pure". Although Du Fu was not famous during his lifetime, his fame spread far and wide, which had a far-reaching impact on China literature and Japanese literature. About 65,438+0,500 poems of Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected by Du Gongbu.
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