The poet Du Fu was choked to death by beef
In the fifth year of the Dali calendar, Du Fu was fifty-nine years old. He went to Leiyang. Suddenly the river surged. He was trapped by the river and could not return home. After not eating anything for ten days, the county magistrate sent a boat to rescue Du Fu and gave him a good meal. Du Fu didn't eat for ten days and was so hungry that he fainted. He ate a lot of beef and drank a lot of white wine, and died suddenly on the spot.
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Long death in the boat
In the third year of Dali (768), Du Fu was homesick and took a boat out of the gorge. He first went to Jiangling and then He was transferred to the police and drifted to Yueyang, Hunan Province in the winter at the end of the year, where he parked his boat downstairs in Yueyang. Climbing the long-fascinated Yueyang Tower, looking out from the distance, facing the vast and majestic Dongting Lake, I thought about my wandering in my later years and the country's many disasters. I was filled with emotion, so I wrote "Climbing the Yueyang Tower".
Due to life difficulties, not only could he not return north, he was forced to go further south. In the first month of the fourth year of the Dali calendar, we went from Yueyang to Tanzhou (Changsha), then from Tanzhou to Hengzhou (Hengyang), and then back to Tanzhou.
In the fifth year of Dali (770), Zang Jie caused rebellion in Tanzhou, and Du Fu fled to Hengzhou. He originally planned to go to Chenzhou to join his uncle Cui Mu, but when he arrived in Leiyang, he encountered a surge in the river. He had to stay at Fangtian Station and had nothing to eat for five days. Fortunately, the county magistrate Nie sent someone to bring wine and meat and he was saved.
Later, Du Fu had to go upstream for more than 200 miles from Leiyang to Chenzhou. At this time, the flood had not receded. Du Fu originally wanted to return north, but then he changed his plan and went down the river and turned back. Tanzhou. In the winter of the fifth year of the Dali calendar (770), Du Fu died on a small boat from Tanzhou to Yueyang. He was fifty-nine years old.
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