We say that Du Fu's life is certainly not always like this. Du Fu also had his youth, his boyhood. We saw Du Fu's memories of his teenage life in his poems. For example, in the poem Zhuang You, he recalled playing in Shandong and Henan when he was young. He said that he was "dissolute between Zhao and Qi, and Qiu Ma was quite crazy. On the platform of loving each other, he sang on the platform in spring and hunted on the edge of the village in autumn and winter, leading a dissolute life. He even remembers his early life. At the age of fifty, he wrote a poem called "Collection of Sorrow for the Past", recalling his teenage years. He said: "I am still a fifteen-year-old child, healthy as a scalper, and I didn't return to court until August. "When he 15 years old, he was as lively as a child, and his heart was completely childlike. He is as strong as a calf and runs around. There are pear trees and jujube trees in his yard. When these fruits are ripe in autumn, he climbs up the tree a thousand times a day and keeps climbing up to eat. We can see that Du Fu was a wild young man before he was 35 years old. When he was a teenager, he used to be a lively and robust teenager. But if we have a sculptor now, we can create a youthful Du Fu, like Li Bai, or further create a youthful Du Fu, climb trees and pick fruits, and then show them to everyone. This is the poet Du Fu. Although you explained that this is a young Du Fu, this is a young Du Fu, I don't think everyone will recognize it, because the Du Fu we recognize is such a worry.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a poem about the portrait of an imperial aunt Du Fu, which was very well written. Known as "the worry of all countries is drunk." That is, even if Du Fu is drunk, his worries about the world and all kinds of worries about the world are gathered in his brow. Later generations commented on this poem, and Huang Gu said, "It's a wonderful life", which completely wrote Du Fu's life. So I think Du Fu's image has been fixed by history. Then Du Fu's topic must be a heavy topic. You may feel a little heavy after listening to it, but as the ancients said, Yan Canglang of the Song Dynasty said in his Canglang poem that we need to enter such a realm when reading some works, such as Li Sao. How can I best read Li Sao? You must read cadence and tears. After reading Li Sao, tears poured down and your clothes were soaked. Only then did you really understand Li Sao. So is my personal reading experience. My favorite poem, after reading it, made me feel in full swing and burst into tears. I think some poems like that are the biggest at this time.
Du Fu is a great poet in the literary history of China and the world. It seems needless to say that everyone knows this. What we are going to talk about today is the significance of Du Fu in cultural history, that is, his influence, and his significance has long overflowed beyond literature and poetry, and it is such a significance in the whole cultural history. So, where do we look at this? I think the first thing to look at is the evaluation of Du Fu by later generations.
As we all know, Du Fu's lofty position in the history of literature was laid in the Song Dynasty. Let's talk about the Song Dynasty first. There was a politician named Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is the noblest and most ambitious politician in my mind. He is really a politician, not a politician. Wang Anshi has great respect for Du Fu. In a poem entitled "The Portrait of Du Fu", he said this. He said: "the heart of pushing the public has existed since ancient times. I hope you can come back to life, make friends with you and be your friend." He worships Du Fu in ancient times.