Du Fu's Interpretation of Memories of Time Past
Du Fu's Memories of Time Past consists of two poems, which were written by Guangde in Chengdu in 764 AD. Write your own memories of Tang Suzong and Xuanzong in your poems. The first one is about "recalling the past in the north" and the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion. Du Fu wrote poems during the reign of Tang Daizong, so he called Su Zong the first emperor. The second song enviously recalls the economic prosperity and peace of the whole country in the prosperous time of Kaiyuan, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would prosper and let the prosperous time reappear. The textbook only quotes six sentences at the beginning of the second song of Remembrance of Time Past, and there are 22 sentences below: "Wan Qi Lu Mao caught a class, and men plowed and women wove. The sage in the palace plays the cloud gate, and all friends in the world paint. There has been no catastrophe for more than 100 years, and Uncle Sun has learned Xiao He's law. Do you smell a piece of silk worth 10 thousand yuan? Today, a field is bleeding. Luoyang Palace was burnt out, and the Fox and Rabbit Cave was newly demolished in the ancestral hall. I can't bear to ask about my old age, but at the beginning of my fear, I said that I was helpless, and the court remembered the rank of Meng Lu. Zhou Xuan zhongxing looked at my emperor, spilling blood and Jianghan's physical strength declined.