For the Three Gorges, if Li Bai is singing while walking, then Du Fu (702-770), the "poet saint", is singing in the station. In particular, Du Fu lived in Kuizhou for nearly two years, and wrote nearly one-third of Du Fu's existing poems, leaving many popular chapters for "Poetry City" and "Poetry Gorge".
In the Tang Dynasty, Kuizhou belonged to Shannan East Road, and the governing state was near Qutang Gorge, connected with Bai Di City, more than ten miles east of fengjie county today. In April of the first year of Dali (766), the poet Du Fu moved from Chengdu to Kuizhou. Seeing the beautiful scenery here, he was reluctant to leave. With the support of Bai Maolin, the governor of Kuizhou, he lived in Kuizhou until the first month of the third year of Dali (768). According to Du Fu's poems and the description of Lu You's descendants, when the poet lived in Kuizhou, he moved several times, first in the "living room" on the hillside, and then in the "Xige" and "Caotang" in the city.
When Du Fu first arrived in Kuizhou, it was near the heat. Kuizhou is surrounded by mountains and the temperature is high in summer. In addition, there is a drought this year. "The mountains were scorched by drought, and there was no rain in the dense clouds." (Lei) Du Fu, who was sickly, was not adapted to the heat. So, he went to the "living room" on the relatively cool hillside and lived for three or four months before moving to the "Xige" this autumn.
During Du Fu's stay in Xige, his life was quite idle. Judging from Du Fu's poems, "Xige", "Linjiang Pavilion" and "Cao Ge" are all closely related to water. It is very likely that these places have different names, but they are actually one place. They are all surrounded by mountains and waters, collectively called "Gaozhai Watergate", (Suge), "Cao Ge" and "Louxuan overlooks the river wall" (Xige chapter two). Judging from the actual situation of Baidicheng, the exact location of the West Pavilion is now the "West Pavilion". Du Fu wrote many poems about objects, scenery, nostalgia and homesickness in Xige, and scenic spots and place names under Qutang constantly appeared in his poems. He summed up the whole situation of Kuizhou with four poems:
East of China and Pakistan, Badong Mountains,
River water flows through it;
Baidigao is the Three Gorges Town.
Qutang narrowly escaped a hundred prisons. (one of the ten quatrains in Kuizhou Song) He wrote about the rainy scenery in Baidicheng and midsummer:
The clouds in Bai Di City have dispersed,
It's raining in Baidicheng.
Gao Jiang gorge thunder fight,
Cui Mucang, Sun Teng and the moon dizzy. (Bai Di) When writing about the flood? Pile, full of sadness:
Hey? Without a single root depth,
The water in the west is too sad and muddy.
All the lonely birds in the river have gone,
When it rains and winds, dragons sing. ("samarium?" ) He wrote that Qutang Gorge is steep and deep, which is a big sum:
Where the Three Gorges spread, double cliffs reinforce this gate.
Into the sky, it is still stone color, wearing water and clouds. ("Qutang Two Cliffs") added:
There are thousands of valleys in the southwest, and two cliffs are open.
The ground and the roots of the mountain split, and the river came from the moon cave. ("Qutang nostalgia")
In the poem "A drunkard's sake is not wine, a gentleman looks at each other with wine", Du Fu specifically describes the leisure scene of his banquet with Bai Maolin and others:
Just waiting for an old guest,
Stop drinking and sing to expand the golden halberd.
When I was riding a horse, I suddenly remembered a teenager.
Loose hoof rushed into Qutang stone.
In March of the second year of Dali (767), Du Fu moved to the thatched cottage, and then Du Fu also lived in Chi Jia for a period of time. "Ten Chi Jia moved to a new house, and two saw Wushan Chu Shui Chun" ("Chi Jia"), he climbed to the top of the peach, and his poems were like a flood:
Many people will get rich, and Qutang will fight for a door. (Yangtze River)
Red, white and salt all sting the sky,
Yan Lu filled the air and met the top of the mountain.
Keywords maple, orange tree, Danqinghe,
The roads are heavy and the buildings are brilliant. (one of the ten quatrains in Kuizhou Song)