In the third year of Tang Daizong Dali (768), Du Fu went out to visit two lakes. This poem was written by a poet who climbed Yueyang Tower and looked at his hometown. At the age of 57, he was only two years away from the end of his life. He suffers from lung disease and rheumatism, his left arm is shriveled, his right ear is deaf, and he lives by drinking medicine.
Climb the peak
The ancients had the custom of climbing mountains on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. This poem was written by the poet at the Double Ninth Festival in the second year of Dali, Tang Daizong. At this time, Du Fu lived in Kuizhou (now fengjie county, Sichuan Province) on the banks of the Yangtze River, suffering from severe lung disease, and his life was very difficult. Through the description of sad autumn scenery, the whole poem expresses the poet's sadness of being old and sick, sad at that time and being in a foreign land.