Seven stanzas of a rare old man are as follows:
Who says seventy years old is rare? The nation is seventy-seven years old.
Teams of white hair square dance, groups of red card bus squeeze.
Hanging the car about the companion to go everywhere, to the matter of group tour international.
Staff country still exists in the heart of young people, the world of longevity is not envious of the hidden for the brother He Hall Qi! Du Fu is one of the most outstanding poets in ancient Chinese poetry, known as the "Sage of Poetry"! He left more than 1400 poems in his life, countless canons, is the middle Tang "new music poetry" guide.
Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty promoted and practiced Du Fu's "realism" throughout his life; the poet Zhang Pai Jiwu burned Du Fu's poems and drank honey in the hope of improving his own poetic training; Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty specialized in the study of Du Fu's poems, and formed the "Jiangxi School of Poetry". "
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Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, composed a 200-song collection of Du Fu's five lines 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 an outstanding 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".