Before, I always thought that the poet Du Fu, who had a difficult and cynical life, should have come from a poor background, otherwise how could he write such famous sentences as "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and the road has frozen bones" and "Ande Guangsha is tens of millions, sheltering the world and the cold people are happy"?
In fact, when Lao Du was young, he was not only not poor, but also the son of an official eunuch. Du Fuzu's ancestors were county orders and assassins for several generations, and his grandfather Du Zhenyan was appreciated by Wu Zetian, and he successively served as a writer, a member of the catering department, a foreign lang, a guozi supervisor, and a direct scholar of the Xiuwenguan, which is probably equivalent to the current middle-level officials of the Datang Library Documentation Center, the Tang State Guesthouse, the Royal University, and the Royal Office of Literature and History. Unfortunately, later, after Emperor Zhongzong of Tang came to power, he exiled all the people who were close to Wu Zetian, and his home was also raided, and the family road was lost.
Du Fu's father, Du Xian, successively served as a lieutenant of Chencheng, Fengtianling, and Sima of Yanzhou, probably the director of the county G security bureau, the county chief, and the director of the city G security bureau. Although it is not as prominent as the high-ranking officials of the ancestors, it is certainly a wealthy family. Therefore, du Fu was really in good condition when he was young.
Look at Du Fu's life, at the age of nineteen, he began to be keen on tourism, first touring Shanxi; twenty to twenty-three years old, touring Zhejiang Jiangsu; twenty-four years old, from Wuyue to Luoyang, the examination was not admitted; twenty-five to twenty-nine years old, touring Shandong Hebei; thirty-year-old, returning to Luoyang; thirty-three years old, meeting Li Bai, touring Henan, with Li Bai, Gao Shideng blowing platform, Qintai, Tour Wangwu Mountain....... Good guys have been running around for more than ten years, and the coil is naturally with the family. In the middle of this, he also married the daughter of a high-ranking official and had children, but he still could not stay at home, and spent many years with a group of literati friends to visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, writing poems, drinking, and chatting.
It was not until later, when his father died and the family property was slowly lost, that Lao Du was suitable for thinking about the doorway to get a court organization. Unfortunately, the fate is not good, and he has not been a high official in his life, and he has been displaced and miserable for half a lifetime. Look at the life of Lao Du, there is really a little enlightenment for the current nibbling old people, take advantage of the young and down-to-earth to move bricks, nibbling on the old is not a lifetime thing!