Du Fu s farewell poem, Du Fu s farewell poem to Li Bai

Du Fu's farewell poems include "Gift to Li Bai", "Fengjiyi Heavy Sending Yan Gong Four Rhymes", "With Li Taishou Dengli Lixia Ancient City Yuanwai New Pavilion, Pavilion to Quehu Lake", "Accompany Li Beihai Banquet Calendar Pavilion", "Ximen Mountain", "Send Han Fourteen Jiangdong Province to the East", "Send Wei Shudong Good Memory to Xi'an" and so on.

Du Fu (February 12, 712, 770), known as Zimei, self-named Shaoling Yelao, was a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, and was called "Li Du" together with Li Bai. Born in Gong County, Henan Province, he is originally from Xiangyang, Hubei. In order to distinguish it from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".

The core of Du Fu's thought is the idea of benevolence, and he has the grand ambition of "to the monarch and Yao, and then to make the customs pure".

Although Du Fu was not famous during his lifetime, he later became famous and had a profound impact on both Chinese and Japanese literature. A total of about 1,500 poems by Du Fu have been preserved, most of which were collected in the winter of the fifth year of the Great Calendar (770) of the "Du Gongbu Collection", and died of illness at the age of 59. Du Fu's influence on classical Chinese poetry is very far-reaching, and he is called the "poet saint" by later generations, and his poems are called "poetry history".

Later generations called it Du Shiji, Du Gong Department, also known as Du Shaoling, Du Caotang.

Du Fu's poem to bid farewell to Li Bai is "Remembering My Brother on a Moonlit Night".

Part of the original text of this poem is the sound of drums breaking people's lines, and a goose in autumn. The dew is white from tonight, and the moon is the hometown of Ming. There are brothers who are scattered, and there is no home to ask about life and death. The length of the letter is not reached, and the army has not ceased to be suspended. Get drunk again and again, thousands of miles together.

Appreciation: This poem was written by Du Fu to recall his friendship with Li Bai, expressing Du Fu's deep longing and reluctance to Li Bai. The poem depicts the reunion and separation of Du Fu and Li Bai on a moonlit night, and shows the poet's praise and nostalgia for Li Bai through the memories of the past.

The poet lamented that the letters could not be sent, and he was even more worried that the war would not end, so that relatives could not be reunited.

Du Fu referred to Li Bai as his brother-in-law, expressing the deep friendship and mutual respect between the two. The words in the poem are concise and far-reaching, through the description of natural scenery and the reminiscence of Li Bai, as well as the emotion of the transience of life and parting. The whole poem expresses Du Fu's admiration and longing for Li Bai, as well as his cherishing and thinking about friendship and life.

Background of the creation of "Remembering My Brother on a Moonlit Night":

"Remembering My Brother on a Moonlit Night" is a poem written by Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty, which expresses the longing for the parting of relatives. It is rumored that the younger brother in the poem refers to Du Fu's younger brother Du Mu, and Li Bai is Du Fu's friend. The poem was written in the late Tang Dynasty, during the turbulent period after the Anshi Rebellion, when Du Fu and Du Mu were scattered in different places due to the war, and it became difficult to communicate with each other.

The poem "Remembering My Brother on a Moonlit Night" reflects Du Fu's deep emotions and deep longing for his family. In the midst of the turmoil, Du Fu expressed his cherishing of family, friendship and hometown through poetry, as well as the pain and anxiety of the Tuan clan about war and displacement. With its profound connotation and sincere emotion, this poem has become a classic in Du Fu's poetry.

The first sentence of the poem, "The drum breaks the pedestrians, and the sound of a goose in the autumn" depicts the soldiers in the frontier battlefield bidding farewell to their relatives in the drums, while the border in autumn only has the chirping of the lonely geese. Then Du Fu expressed his longing for Du Mu and other relatives, Du Fu's relatives were scattered in different places, homeless.