In 747, Tang Xuanzong ordered that the world's talents enter Beijing to take the exam, and the 35-year-old Du Fu looked for the examination questions of the previous year and made some preparations, and no one was admitted, just because Li Linfu, the prime minister at the time, wanted to create an illusion that "under the rule of the Ming Emperor, there is no wilderness".
Du Fuqi's path was unstable, he couldn't stand it and wanted to leave Chang'an. Before leaving, he remembered that he often brought up his own Shangshu Province Zuo Cheng Wei Ji, and wrote him a 220-word farewell poem - "Twenty-two Rhymes to Wei Cheng Zhang"
Without learning and without skills, you can also go flat, talented people can not be reused, this society is too ugly, and even talented and idealistic people will also suffer all kinds of injustice, I do not believe!
But what's the use of disobeying?
Fast forward to the age of 40, Du Fu still achieved nothing. There was no way out, he had to rub the hot spots: Tang Xuanzong held three major events, Du Fu created three corresponding fu in succession, Tang Xuanzong felt that the horse ass was in place, and ordered Du Fu to be in the Jixian Academy and obtain the qualification to be an official.
After waiting for four years, Du Fu was given a post of "Lieutenant of Hexi County", Du Fu felt that the official position was too low to be exercised, and did not accept it, and later he learned that there was no smallest official position, only smaller, and the Organization Department arranged for him to be the right guard to lead the government to join the army, this post of less than eight pins, mainly responsible for guarding weapons, not as good as the county lieutenant, this time he accepted.
Accept because life is too embarrassing. He said in the poem, "Do not be a lieutenant of Hexi, but be desolate for bending your waist." The old man is afraid to drive away, lead the government and get away with it", and if he does not participate in the work, he probably really cannot live.
But when he received his salary and went home to visit his relatives, he just walked to the door and heard his wife Yang's miserable cries. Due to the lack of living, Du Fu's younger son was starved to death.
This thin middle-aged man, sitting in the doorway, buried his head deeply, sobbed silently. However, whatever! In his grief and indignation, he wrote one of the longest pieces of Du Fu's epic poem, "Five Hundred Words from Beijing to Fengxian County"
In 755, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and for Du Fu himself, his turbulent and displaced life was about to begin.
Qing Dynasty literary scholar Zhao Yi wrote in the "Inscription on the Mountain Poem", "The country's unfortunate poet is lucky", the anshi rebellion, is the beginning of the Tang Dynasty national disaster, and at the same time is the starting point of Du Fu's brilliant life, starting from 755 to his death in 770, Du Fu was very busy, creating more than a thousand poems, but all reveal Du Fu's patriotic feelings:
In his later years, Du Fu was displaced and had no fixed place to live, which was very tragic.
In the spring of 760, the 49-year-old Du Fu, with the help of friends, built a hut by the Huanhua Creek in Chengdu, and finally had a shelter. Unexpectedly, in August 761, the wind broke the house and heavy rain followed.
At that time, the anshi rebellion had not yet subsided, and the poet thought of the difficulties since the war from his own encounters, and the long nights were sleepless, and he was full of emotions, and wrote the popular "The Hut is Broken by the Autumn Wind"
Du Fu always pushed himself and others, and always put the Confucian idea of "benevolence" first in his life. He would rather use his own death in exchange for the well-being of this world. This spirit is the spirit of saints, and such a poet deserves to be called a poet.
After this, he wanted to go back to his hometown to see, so he borrowed money to buy a small boat to go north, and he also left many classics along the way.
However, in the end, he still did not return to his hometown, and the Anshi Rebellion was not completely over, and there was chaos everywhere. He had to change the route again and again, and he couldn't go back home, and eventually died in a small boat.