From Du Fu
Original text
Four Odes of Jiangtou·Gardenia
Author Du Fu? Dynasty Tang
Gardenia is more beautiful than other trees, but there are not many of them in the world.
It is useful for body color and harmonious with Tao Qi.
Red represents the wind and frost, while green represents the rain and dew.
The most important thing is to move you ruthlessly, reflecting the waves of the river.
Translation
Compared with other plants, gardenia is indeed rare.
It can extract yellow dye and can be used as medicine to regulate qi and treat diseases.
The fruits turn red after frost, and the branches and leaves appear green when exposed to rain and dew.
I like to grow by the river, and there is nothing else to empathize with.
Introduction to the author
Du Fu (AD 712-AD 770), also known as Zimei, also called himself Shaoling Ye Lao. Han nationality, whose ancestral home is Xiangyang, a native of Gong County, Henan Province (now Gongyi, Henan Province). A great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, he and Li Bai were collectively known as "Li Du". In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".
Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Thatched Cottage. Du Fu created such masterpieces as "Spring Look", "Northern Expedition", "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells". In 759, Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he escaped the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the common people and national affairs. Although Du Fu is a realist poet, he also has a wild and uninhibited side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroic spirit from his famous work "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking". The core of Du Fu's thoughts is the Confucian thought of benevolent government. He has the grand ambition of "bringing the emperors Yao and Shun to the throne, and then making the customs pure." Although Du Fu was not well-known during his lifetime, he later became famous and had a profound impact on both Chinese and Japanese literature. About 1,500 poems by Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected in "Du Gongbu Collection".
Main Achievements
In Du Fu's middle age, because of his melancholy poetic style and concern for the country and the people, Du Fu's poems were called "the history of poetry". Du Fu's poems in the Thirty-six Poems of the Qing Dynasty are good at ancient style and rhythmic poetry, with various styles. The four words "depressed and frustrated" accurately summarize the style of his own works, and the main theme is melancholy. Du Fu lived in the historical period when the Tang Dynasty was changing from prosperity to decline. His poems mostly dealt with social unrest, political darkness, and people's suffering. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's suffering at that time. His poems recorded the transition from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. The great changes in history express the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and the strong sense of worry, so it is known as the "history of poetry". Du Fu was concerned about the country and the people, with noble personality and exquisite poetic skills. Du Fu wrote more than 1,500 poems in his life, many of which are famous poems that have been passed down through the ages, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", and "Du Gongbu Collection" has been handed down to the world; among them, "Three Officials" is "Shi Hao" Officials", "Xin'an Officials" and "Tongguan Officials", the "three farewells" are "Newlywed Farewell", "Homeless Farewell" and "Elderly Farewell". Du Fu's poems handed down are the most numerous and most extensive among Tang poems. He was one of the most outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty and had a profound influence on later generations. Du Fu's works are known as the devastation of the world, the sage in the poem; the suffering of the people, the waves in the writing. He is a realist poet.