Translation of Du Fu's poem "Returning on Foot" line by line.

Returning on foot

Author: Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty

Ming Gong was in his prime and at a time of crisis ①, and his economic performance was due to his heroic appearance ②.

If the state of the country is now ③, who will be responsible for the disaster caused by Wuding? ④.

The phoenix flies to thousands of officials and is full of food, but the clothes and horses are no longer light and fat⑤.

The most sleepy man in the Qingpao court is ⑥, who returns home on foot after picking up lost things.

There is no young or old in life, so why should we first be in harmony with each other?

My wife cried to the sky in the mountains, and my father-in-law chased after the wind in the stable.

Notes

① "Wu Zhi": Sun Jian said to Zhang Wen: "Ming Gong personally led the heavenly troops and shocked the world."

② "Wei Zhi" ": Cao Cao said: "The only heroes in the world are those who are alone and envoys."

③"The Book of Loyalty": "To benefit the country, regardless of one's own body."

④"Tongjian" ": Wei He Bagui said to Yu Wentai: "Literature is sufficient to manage the country, and military force can quell chaos." "Guoyu": Public commentators recite: "Don't be embarrassed if you mourn the fields, and disrupt their prosperity." (This is the reason why I went on foot. On the way there, he paid a visit to the emperor in hemp shoes. He wore a green robe but no court clothes. "Old Book": In February of the second year of Zhide, it was planned to make a large-scale recovery, and all the public and private horses were included to help the army, so they only traveled on foot.)

⑤Fan Yun's poem: "The clothes and horses are light and fat."

⑥Kong Rong's book: "The scholars of the court value Confucianism the most."

⑦"History": "The white head is as new as new " "Yan Guo Ce": "A man walking on foot."

(The last words are white and horse-bearing. No matter how old or young, we can see the acquaintance of forgetting the years. How can we be together and see the acquaintance of forgetting the shape.

At the time when Lu Fan was writing about it, Li Te came to guard Pizhou. He passed by Pizhou and wrote a poem as a gift to Li. This chapter has three paragraphs, four sentences each.)

⑧ "Shuo Yuan": "On making friends." Xie Lingyun's poem: "Who says that the past and the present are different, but different generations can be the same."

⑨枥, a manger. "Annotations on Ancient and Modern Times": "Qin Shihuang's seven horses, one is called Zhuifeng." "Luoyang Jialan Ji": Wang Chen of Hejian in the Later Wei Dynasty sent an envoy to the Chisi Kingdom and got a thousand-mile horse, named Zhuifeng. "Guangyun": "The horse is yellow and white and is called a piao."

Author introduction:

Du Fu (712-770), also known as Zimei, also known as Shaoling Yelao, is known to the world as " Du Gongbu", "Du Shaoling", etc., Han nationality, native of Fugong County, Henan Province (now Gongyi City, Henan Province), a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu is respected by the world as the "Sage of Poetry", and his poems are called "the history of poetry" ". Du Fu and Li Bai are 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". He was concerned about the country and the people, and had a noble personality. About 1,400 of his poems have been preserved. His poetic skills are exquisite, and he is highly respected in Chinese classical poetry and has far-reaching influence. He lived in Chengdu from 759 to 766, and is commemorated by Du Fu thatched cottage in later generations.

Du Fu's poems are called "History of Poetry" because many of the poems written by Du Fu are melancholy and depressed, worrying about the country and the people. Du Fu's poetry is 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 style 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.

Du Fu is good at using many systems of classical poetry and developing them creatively. He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu style of poetry. His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the New Yuefu Movement in the mid-Tang Dynasty. His May 7 ancient novel is both poetry and history. It unfolds the narrative, but also focuses on the convolution of the entire article, marking a high achievement in the art of poetry in my country. Du Fu also showed significant creativity in the Five and Seven Rhythms, and accumulated complete artistic experience in rhythm, antithesis, word and sentence refining, etc., bringing this genre to a fully mature stage. There is "Du Gongbu Collection" handed down from generation to generation. Among his works are "Wen Guanjun Takes Henan and Hebei", "Spring View", "Queju", "Wang Yue" and so on.