The Seven Rhymes in Praise of the Rare Years are as follows:
Who says seventy years old is rare? The nation is seventy-seven years old.
Teams of gray hair square dance, groups of red card bus squeeze.
Hanging the car about the companion to go everywhere, to the matter of group tours of the international.
Staff country still exists in the heart of the youth, the prosperity of the long life is not strange! Du Fu is one of the most outstanding poets in ancient Chinese poetry, known as the "Sage of Poetry"! He left behind more than 1,400 poems in his life, which are countless, and he was the leader of the "New Lefu Poetry" in the Middle Tang Dynasty.
Bai Juyi (白居易) of the Tang Dynasty, promoted and practiced Du Fu's "realism" throughout his life; Zhang Yi (張藉), a poet, burned Du Fu's poems and drank honey in the hope of improving his own poetic training; Huang Tingjian (黄庭坚) of the Song Dynasty, specialized in Du Fu's poems, and formed a school of poems in the Jiangxi Province. "
Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, composed a collection of 200 of Du Fu's five-character poems while he was in prison, saying that everything he wanted to say had been said by Du Fu! Du Fu was proficient in various poetic styles, and had extraordinary achievements in absolute lines, metered poems and ancient poems.
Du Fu made a remarkable contribution to the development of the "five-seven ancient" and "five-seven metrical" poems.
Written in Du Fu's later years, the poem "Ascending to the Heights" has been highly praised by later generations because of its high level of "word refinement" and "battle contrasts", the use of emotions in the scenery, the use of superlatives and untraceable exaggerations, and the combination of strong personal emotions.
Yang Lun, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, called it "the first seven-character poem in the Du Collection", and Hu Yinglin, a poetry critic of the Ming Dynasty, regarded it as "the crown of seven-character poems of ancient and modern times".