As a poet, Du Fu is known by all.
Du Fu wrote more than 1,500 poems during his lifetime, many of which are well known through the ages, such as “The Three Officials”, “The Three Goodbyes” and “Climbing the Heights”.
You may not be able to read du Fu’s complete works, but you must read these 20 classic Tang poems by Du Fu.
1.
Dew from tonight white, the moon is home bright.
— “The Night of the Moon”
From tonight into the white dew solar terms, the moon or hometown of the most bright.
Probably every homesick wanderer, paranoid to believe that the moon is home.
2.
Will be ling Peak, list of small mountains.
— Wang Yue
Some day I shall climb to the highest summit and see the mountains below you.
This is du Fu’s most inspiring poem. When you stand on a high mountain, when you want to do something, you will automatically think of this poem.
3.
Feel when the flower splashes tears, hate don’t bird alarmed.
— Chun Wang by Du Fu
I felt the defeat and wept at the sight of the flowers; I resent with regret, and tremble at the sound of birds.
People’s inner pain, encounter joy, but cause more pain.
4.
Anxia ten million, the great shelve the world all happy face!
The wind and rain are steady.
— “The Cottage Broken by the Autumn Wind”
How to get ten million spacious tall house, generally cover the world between the poor scholar, let them smile, the house in the wind and rain also unmoved, safe like a mountain?
Great poets are great because their roots of pain and happiness reach deep into the soil of society and history, and their Lamentations belong not only to themselves but also to a wider group of people.
5.
The boundless forest sheds its leaves shower by shower. The endless river rolls its waves hour after hour.
— Climbing the Heights
Endless leaves were falling and the Yangtze river, which could not be seen to an end, was rolling on and on.
It depressed desolate, conveys shaoguang, ambition of resentment and chuang, predecessors put it as “ancient and modern authors ” of “sentence being ”.
6.
He who dies before he leaps makes the hero cry.
— The Phases of Shu
Unfortunately, he died before he had won the final victory, which often made future generations of heroes sigh with emotion and wet clothes!
Often read this poem, I sincerely sigh, if Mr. Zhuge can continue life for 30 years, perhaps really can realize his life ideal, Kuang Fu Han room, also in the old capital.
7.
Life does not meet, action is like participating in business.
— As a Gift to the Eighth Guard
Life cannot often meet apart, just like the west star and the East star you rise and fall.
Some people walked on the scattered, looking back to think of parting, is so common in the morning.
8.
The crown covered With Beijing, people alone haggard.
— “Dream Li Bai two Songs”
Beijing city are senior officials, dignitaries family, but only you poor, dedication no door.
Perhaps only Du Fu understood Li Bai’s loneliness the best.
9.
Southeast of Wuchu city, Heaven and Earth floated day and night.
— Climbing Yueyang Tower
The vast lake seems to separate the southeast of Wu chu, heaven and earth like in the lake day and night rippling floating.
The vast lake, the majestic momentum, this is Du Fu’s magnificent Dongting Lake.
10.
Fluttering what like, heaven and earth a sand gull.
“– Night Travel Book Bosom
What is it like to be adrift? Like a solitary sand gull between heaven and earth.
A big part of growing up is accepting. Accept the parting of the ways, accept the vicissitude of life, accept the lonely setbacks, accept the sudden sense of powerlessness.
11.
Chi Sun jiangshanli, spring flowers fragrance. Mud melt fly swallow, sand warm sleep mandarin duck.
— Quatrain
Rivers and mountains are bathed in spring, how beautiful, the spring breeze brings the fragrance of flowers. Swallows are busy building their nests in the wet mud and sleeping in pairs in the warm sand.
Spring in the wind, the most genial, the spring scene, the most pleasant.
12.
Pen down jing wind and rain, poetry into make the gods cry.
— “Send Li twelve White twenty Rhyme”
To see him write, wind and rain for it sigh; Seeing his poem, ghosts and gods were moved to cry.
Du Fu did not skimp on praising Li Bai.
13.
Congju two open tears, a boat is home heart.
— Autumn Prosperity
It has been two years since the flowers bloomed. Looking at them in full bloom, I can’t help crying at the thought that I haven’t been home for two years. The boat is still tied to the shore, although I can not return to the east, drifting outside my heart is long home.
Through thousands of mountains and rivers, the most concerned about, is still the hometown.
14.
Power cover three sub – state, into eight map. River flow stone does not turn, lost wu.
— “Eight Matrix Diagram”
The Three Kingdoms have established you in the world, created the eight diagrams, and you have achieved lasting fame. Despite the impact of the river, the stone is still the same, a thousand years of hatred, lies in Liu Bei’s blunder to swallow Wu.
A thousand years of history, there is always regret, for others, is feeling. For the person involved, it is deeply painful.
15.
Weibei spring tree, river sunset clouds.
— Spring Memory of Li Bai
Now, I alone in the North of the Spring trees, and you in the east of the river looking at the twilight clouds, far apart, can only miss each other.
We are far apart, we miss each other.
16.
It is the beautiful scenery in the South of the Yangtze River.
— “The Year of the Turtle in South China”
Just when the scenery south of the Yangtze River, in the falling flowers season and you meet again.
How many thoughts of ups and downs, how many feelings of the past and present, are in this sentence.
17.
The end of the wolong Leap horse loess, the book of human sounds diffuse solitude.
— The Night in the Pavilion
Historical figures such as Zhuge Liang and Gongsun Shu eventually became bones in the loess; Personnel and audio book, can only let its loneliness.
Sunset road far, what the world! When the general went, the tree fell; Strong men do not return, the cold wind bleak.
18.
Wine debt is common place, the life of seventy years.
— Qujiang river
With too much wine on credit, there is a liquor debt everywhere. Man does not live much until he is seventy years of age.
“life since ancient seventy rare ”, to enjoy life, be or should be feeling lost?
19.
Singing in the daytime must indulge in wine, youth with good home.
— Wen Guan Jun, Henan And Hebei
The sun shines and sings and drinks wine, and returns home with his wife and children in the beautiful spring.
How carefree, how proud! This is du Fu’s happiest hour!
20.
But see the new smile, the old cry.
— Pretty Woman
A husband sees only the laughter of the new couple, but where can he hear the old one cry?
It is human nature to like both new and old. How many women have spent their whole lives in such an environment?
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