Author | Fan Deng Reading · The clouds are light and the wind is light
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Polaris
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Welcome to Fan Deng's reading character column - "Stars".
Reading the Stars Shine · Experience extraordinary life.
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The protagonist who appears today, he is from a famous family, but he is poor in middle age, and he is cold-eyed in order to find a job;
In the midst of national war, he was displaced, drifting for half his life, and died of illness at the age of 59 on a river boat that was shaking in the wind and rain...
After a lifetime of poverty, he painstakingly wrote 1500 poems, and only many years after his death was he worshipped and admired by posterity and praised as "the backbone of the Chinese nation"!
Let's walk into the Tang Dynasty's "poetry sage" - Du Fu's legendary life~ together
The great writer Lu Xun once said:
"I always feel that Tao Qian stands a little farther away, and Li Bai stands a little higher, which is also caused by the times."
Du Fu did not seem to be an ancient, as if he were still alive in our pile today. ”
Tao Yuanming is hidden, Li Baixian is qi, and Du Fu is grounded.
Reading Du Fu, he will always be inadvertently hit in the heart and burst into tears:
Everyone was once the spirited teenager, with a dream not to hit the south wall and not to turn back;
When people have broken their dreams in middle age, they finally understand that the trivial life of chai rice oil and salt, making money to support the family and pet wife and eva is the most grounded real life.
If you are at a low point in life, you may wish to read Du Fu and learn from him to lower his stature and embrace life in a life of sorrow and joy;
After going through hardships, we do not change our inner nature; we make pleasure in suffering and live our true selves.
People like to call Du Fu Lao Du, and his image of worrying about the country and the people is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
It is said that Old Du has never been young.
In fact, Du Fu was also a young man with fresh clothes and angry horses.
A hot-blooded Warrior Of the West Wind sword Tianya, he is a debauched and debauched prince of Qi Zhao.
Du Fu was born in the "Jingzhao Du Clan", which was very prominent at that time, and people said: "Wei Du in the south of the city, go to the heavens and feet five." ”
Little Du Fu was one year old, a guest at the family feast, watching him completely ignore the dazzling jewelry and playthings in front of him, and his small hand reached out steadily to the poetry collection and firmly grasped it.
His grandfather, the great poet Du Zhenyan, laughed loudly: Du's career has been followed by someone!
Little Du Fu grew up happily. "Seven years old thinking is strong, opening the mouth to sing the phoenix", seven years old can write poetry;
At the age of nine, he practiced a good calligraphy; at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he became a group of talented people and composed poems with a group of literati.
Du Fu, who was full of poetry and books, secretly set up a dream in his heart to "to Jun Yao Shun, and then make the customs pure", and at the age of nineteen, Du Fu suddenly thought: The world is so big, I want to go and see.
In 736, Du Fu went to Yanzhou to visit Sima Ren's father, traveled to the land of Qi Zhao, and wrote a magnificent famous sentence on Mount Tai:
"It will be the top of the mountain, and the mountain will be small."
This "Wangyue" writes about the vastness of heaven and earth, and also expresses the lofty ambitions of the young Du Fu.
Du Fu measured the motherland with his footsteps, and was called home by his father to take the exam twice, but unfortunately he failed.
Playing small with grandpa this super big V mixed with the imperial capital cultural celebrity circle, Du Fu, who has seen the big world, does not care much.
But his beautiful image of his appearance and talent flying together attracted people's attention, Yang Yi, vice minister of agriculture, gave him his daughter Xu, and Du Fuluodi hugged the beauty.
On a april day in the human world in 744, Du Fu, who continued to travel in the clouds, met Li Bai, a big cattle man who had just proudly fried Tang Xuanzong's squid, in Luoyang, and the two talents who were 11 years apart met and hated each other, and they traveled together, talked about poetry papers, and became confidants.
They drank wine and talked about immortality.
Du Fu's weight met Li Bai's ethereality, and such a collision actually made the souls of the two poets burst out with a different brilliance.
Li Bai wrote a poem and said to Du Fu:
"Autumn waves fall on Surabaya, and the sea is bright and wandering." Fly away from each other, and do your best to hold the cup! ”
Li Bai was heroic, but Du Fu actually had a temperature, and he said to Li Bai:
"Yu Yidong is a guest, and the emperor is like a brother." Drunken sleep in autumn, hand in hand with the day. ”
Brother, we are drunk and sleeping together, holding hands, such a time, the most bright color in my life can not be erased.
In the late autumn of that year, they ended the romantic journey of "debauchery qi Zhaojian, Qiu Ma is quite crazy".
Li Bai waved his hand and continued his journey on the clouds, and Du Fu went home to relive his Du Wei fireworks.
After reading Du Fu's happy juvenile life, we finally understand why Du Fu's rich and handsome origin is always ignored by people.
Because Du Fu did not become his own official N generation, rich N generation.
He is free and spontaneous, simple and natural, and there is no habit of the rich second generation to show off his wealth.
Du Fu lowered his stature, made friends when he traveled in the clouds, and won a friendship with his true feelings and integrity.
Du Fu went out to see the outside world, enriched his life, opened his eyes, paid attention to the present, embraced life, and lived a meticulous and down-to-earth life.
Du Fu enjoyed family protection in the first half of his life, and in the blink of an eye, he was middle-aged.
The family fell in the middle of the road, and his father died. The 34-year-old man wants to start a career, and he goes to Chang'an to find a job.
In 747, Tang Xuanzong held a special examination, and Du Fu, who was very popular at the time, was required to participate.
Originally, Du Fu thought that the laurels of this new branch would properly fall on his head.
However, Li Linfu, the minister of power with an unhealthy heart, wrote and directed himself, turning this important examination into a farce of "wild and untouchables", and all the scholars who participated in the examination were not selected.
Du Fu failed again.
No longer extravagantly expected to be crowned with the aura of the new branch, Du Fu put down the purity of the literati and ran around, giving poetry and dedication, and seeking recommendations from the powerful.
In Chang'an , he "drifted" for ten years, "towards the Fu'er Gate, twilight with the fat horse dust." Residual cups and cold burning, everywhere lurking sadness."
Coming to Beijing has long been exhausted, but the opportunity has not come to the door.
Knock on the door of the rich man's house in the morning, and at night chase after the carriage of the rich man and smoke the smoke.
Eating other people's soup leftovers, shedding their own sour tears.
"The soldier is not in the first place, trapped in Chang'an"; and the wife in the family is watching, a nest of milk babies, waiting to be fed.
With no salary to support his family and unable to afford housing prices, Du Fu had to move and finally moved his family to the desolate suburbs.
There was no half a grain of rice in the rice jar, no half a penny in the makeup box, and the children were hungry and skinny.
In the first month of 751, Tang Xuanzong held a sacrifice ceremony, and Du Fu, feeling the simplicity of the customs, danced happily and presented three "Great Gifts" to Tang Xuanzong:
"Since Tang Xing, if there are four philosophers at this time, there are four famous people", which was rewarded by Tang Xuanzong.
Du Fu was placed in the Jixian Temple to wait for the assignment, but Li Linfu was still in power, and Du Fu still did not get an official and a half post.
In 755, Du Fu finally became a lieutenant of Hexi.
However, he "did not serve as a lieutenant of Hexi, and was desolate and bent his waist", this position was embarrassing, and he had to flatter the chief and urge rent and oppress the people, and Du Fu said that he could not do it.
The imperial court gave him another idle job in charge of the access control lock key, and this time, Du Fu was powerless to refuse.
He sighed helplessly, laughed at himself as "Shaoling Ye Lao", and swallowed the sadness and bitterness of people to middle age into his stomach.
With an official and a half-job, the days are still hard.
In 755, Du Fu returned home to visit his relatives, and as soon as he stepped into the house, he heard the sound of wailing, and the youngest son was starved to death.
Du Fu's old tears flowed: "The entrance is loud, and the young son is hungry and dead." ...... Shame on being a father, without food and dying prematurely. ”
The sentences are sad and the words are tearful.
Du Fu's middle-aged painting style changed drastically, the employment crisis, the family road fell in the middle, the prince who was dressed in gold and jade fell into the dust, and he was forced by chai rice oil and salt to worry about his livelihood.
After all the hardships, Du Fu did not dare to collapse, did not dare to pick a pick, he silently insisted, bitterly supported.
Eating a thousand sorrows, going through all kinds of suffering, kneeling in the red dust, there is light in the eyes, and there is poetry.
When the days were at its most difficult, he wrote "Five Hundred Words from Beijing to Fengxian County", leaving behind the ancient famous sentence "Zhumen wine smells of meat, and the road has frozen bones".
Worrying about the country and the people, being loyal to the king, and thinking of the family are all deeply dissolved into Du Fu's poems.
The heavier the suffering, the more difficult it is to destroy his good and benevolent nature.
In 755, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. The Tang Dynasty collapsed, the homeland was destroyed, and the people went into exile.
Du Fu's family also joined the fleeing army, and the war was raging with hunger and cold, and they fled for their lives.
Finally settled down in Yanzhou.
Du Fu bid farewell to his wife and children and embarked on a journey despite the chaos of the war.
The country was in chaos, and the crown prince Li Heng hurriedly took the throne.
The mountains and rivers were boiling hot, and Du Fu was unwilling to live and steal his life, and he planned to fight to the death to serve the country.
However, not long after he was on the road, Du Fu was captured by the rebels and taken back to the fallen capital of Chang'an.
After a year of imprisonment, Du Fu, who had been looking for opportunities, finally escaped and saw Suzong with great hardship: "Hemp shoes see the son of heaven, and sleeves are exposed to two elbows."
When the new monarch ascended the throne, the loyal vassals risked death to follow, and Suzong was moved:
Ai Qing, you are the lonely hero of Yuan, and Datang welcomes you!
Emperor Suzong personally granted Du Fu the post of Zuo Shiyi, and Du Fu did his best to assist the king.
Unfortunately, Du Fu angered Emperor Suzong for his incident, and before he could sit in the new seat, he was demoted to Huazhou as a sigong and joined the army.
Du Fu moved his family to Huazhou again, the wind and dust servants arrived, the heavens could not get over with him, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, prices soared, and Du Fu's little salary could not support his family at all.
In order to survive, the forty-eight-year-old Du Fu resigned naked and ran away.
After Du Fu became middle-aged, he lived a bitter life. But when the time comes to this year, he really knows what life is the most bitter!
I heard that Qinzhou was windy and rainy, far away from war, and Du Fu traveled day and night.
But when he arrived in Qinzhou, it was too difficult, he didn't even have a place to stay, people went to different places, things didn't go well, Du Fu continued to flee the wilderness, turned to the same valley, the result was even worse, he didn't even eat...
"Years of picking oak chestnuts with the sniper, cold days in the valley of twilight. Zhongyuan had no books to return, and his hands and feet froze and died of skin and flesh. ”
Homeless, hungry, looking for acorns in the mountains and searching for potatoes in the snow. What a man's life!
Probably because God saw pity, the bitter old Du of half a lifetime finally came to his bitter end. He led the family to Sichuan.
On the banks of Huanhua Creek, the small bridge flows, and the Chengdu Caotang with a clear moon and white wind has become Du Fu's new home.
There were officials and friends who made a living for him, and the neighbors sent fruits and vegetables to congratulate him, Du Fu quietly breathed a sigh of relief, he finally did not have to worry about it, and could enjoy the time in front of him.
After more than ten years of bitterness, Du Fu's brow finally stretched, and his pen became vivid and lively:
"Round lotus floating small leaves, fine wheat falling light flowers"; "late sun rivers and mountains, spring wind flowers and herbs fragrance"...
Du Fu's poetry has become idyllic and romantic:
"Two yellow orioles singing green willows, a row of egrets on the blue sky." The window contains the West Ridge Thousand Autumn Snow, and the door is docked east Wu Wanli Ship. ”
In front of the door, he can be packaged into a 5A national style cultural scenic spot.
Looking at Du Fu, who blew a sweet and fresh breeze, the people of the whole country said that they were a little unaccustomed.
However, how willing everyone is to see du Fu being embraced happily.
From the miserable wind and rain to the wind and the sun, "the old wife draws paper for the chess game, and the child knocks on the needle as a fishing hook." But if there are deceased people who offer Lu rice, why should the micro-body be more demanding? ”
The wife on the left, the children on the right, and the happiness will explode.
When the news came to quell the rebellion, he almost wanted to say: "Singing in the daytime must be indulged in wine, and youth is a good companion to return home." ”
Du Fu finally understood that only by letting go of obsession and enjoying the present can we live up to life and live up to this beautiful scenery.
In fact, Du Fu was miserable for half of his life, and he always knew how to make pleasure in suffering.
When he went out to visit his family, he would bring his wife high-grade cosmetics, let his daughter grab it, and he would watch them paint on their faces with a spoiled face:
"The mother is all for it, and Xiao Makeup is casually smeared." Shift time shi zhu lead, bad thrush wide. ”
Seeing a miniature monkey, he carried a baby for the family and sweetly imagined them playing.
No matter how hard life is, he will not forget to add some sugar to his family; no matter how difficult the day is, he will always give his family a sense of ceremony.
Patriotic Gu family pet wife Eva, amateur writing poetry, this man who lives out the true self, is the real Chinese treasure uncle.
The happy hour in Chengdu, Yu Dufu, was as happy as an unreal dream.
Helplessly, the fastest way is the most beautiful time, leaving Chengdu, Du Fu began to drift again.
In the winter of 770, it was a very cold year, and Du Fu, who was sick and sick, lay on a small boat with a wind and rain on Dongting Lake.
He finally took a deep look at the human world and closed his eyes forever.
While adrift he wrote:
"Famous articles, officials should be old and sick. Fluttering like, heaven and earth a sand gull. ”
Until his death, Du Fu had three wishes that he had not given up: to be an official, to be loyal to the king, and to be a literary name.
Bent on serving the country, there are villains in the official field who stand in the way, and they have repeated setbacks and defeats;
He wanted to help the world at the same time, but he was wandering and falling for half a lifetime, and even his wife and children could not protect them;
Thinking that "poetry is my family affair", I lived to be fifty-nine years old, wrote 1500 songs, or wrote a lonely ...
He screamed in the sky: I am nothing, just an old sand gull...
Du Fu did not know that forty-three years after his death, his poems were like unearthed national treasures, shining brightly, illuminating the sky of the entire Tang Dynasty and stunning the world.
People respectfully called him: Shi Sheng.
The bitter sea sank, but Du Fu never gave up, and finally completed the great beauty of culture.
The great writer Yuan Shu said: "Since the poet, there has never been a person like Zimei (Du Fu)."
It is said that the beauty of the sunrise lies in the fact that it is born out of the deepest darkness; the richness of the spirit of the poet Saint Du Fu is conceived in an extremely barren life.
If you are at a low point in your life, you may wish to read Du Fu.
Read that he never gave up in the suffering of half a life, never sank, always longed for the light;
Read that he was ravaged by life, without complaint, leaving behind sincere love and illuminating the world.
Click "Watching" and encourage your friends.
Author | The clouds are light and the wind is light, the time is like wine, and the pen is slightly drunk.
Column Director | Cheng zi
Typography | Zheng to the north
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