Rare vegetables and five eggplants are metaphors for what animals are as follows:
Rare vegetables are not animals, but vegetables, which means precious vegetables, such as bamboo fungus, asparagus tips, etc.
Pound wild rice with fragrant rice, and chop five eggplants with rare vegetables. It is a poem by Du Fu. Du Fu, a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, is respected as the "Sage of Poetry" by the world, and his poems are called "the history of poetry".
Du Fu is known as the "History of Poetry". A large number 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. Du Fu also lived in Chengdu, which is commemorated by Du Fu Thatched Cottage in later generations.
The core of Du Fu's thoughts is Confucian benevolent politics. His poetic style is melancholy and he is concerned about the country and the people. He loves life, loves the people, and loves the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. He hates evil and exposes and criticizes the corruption of the court and the dark phenomena in social life.
Du Fu’s poems were collected in sixty volumes, which were lost early. In the second year of Baoyuan of the Northern Song Dynasty (1039), Wang Zhu compiled 1,405 articles into 18 volumes, titled "Collection of Du Gongbu". Qian Qianyi compiled "Annotations to Du Gongbu Collection".
In Du Fu's middle age, because of his melancholy poetic style and concern for the country and the people, Du Fu's poems were called "the history of poetry". His poems are 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 during the historical period when the Tang Dynasty was transitioning 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 great historical changes in the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline express the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of worry, so it is known as the "History of Poetry".