What kind of poet is Du Mu?

Du Mu (803-852), a native of Chang 'an, was born in an official family. His grandfather Du You is both a great official and a scholar, and his works are quite abundant. Such a family background has always been Komori's pride. In his poem, he said:

"My husband's family, she tasted Ding Dong. Always open Zhumen first, in the center of Chang 'an. There was nothing, thousands of books was full. There are 200 pieces in the collection, from emperor to emperor. "

Undoubtedly, this family tradition has a great influence on him, which makes him always take the world as his responsibility, and especially likes to write letters to rulers to discuss politics, military affairs and economy. In his words, it is "I am willing to sew clothes all my life" ("County Zhai Dui"), just like the slogan that heroes in Shangliang Mountain often hang on their lips: "Learn written martial arts and sell it to the royal family." It's a pity that all this is just his scholar's spirit, and the authorities don't adopt him as an armchair strategist. So his career is not very smooth. For more than ten years after he became a scholar at the age of 26, he spent most of his time immersed in the shogunate and didn't become a state official until he was forty. Therefore, his heart is often filled with a disheartened mood, and he has no choice but to spend his life in singing and dancing. His dissolute dream of "sleeping in Yangzhou for ten years", coupled with his laziness and depression of "drinking and not sleeping well", and his ambition of taking the world as his duty before, is simply a complete Du Mu.

Li Shangyin (8 13-858) is a native of Yuxi, ten years younger than Du Mu, and a native of Hanoi, Huaizhou. Although he claimed to be the queen of the Zhou Dynasty, in fact, his family had already declined, and he just had the same surname as Tang Emperor. When Li Shangyin was a child, he was "nowhere to return to the four seas, and nine families had no relatives to rely on" ("Sacrificing Sister"). He can only work hard and get a chance to get ahead from the imperial examination, so Du Mu's pride has nothing to do with him, but he often has a distorted psychology of inferiority and conceit. Therefore, on the one hand, he devoted great enthusiasm to politics, on the other hand, he felt indignant and disappointed. For example, Jia Sheng's "poor people sit empty in the middle of the night, don't ask ordinary people to ask ghosts and gods" is his feeling about talented people. In Ding 'an Iron Tower, "I am obsessed with rivers and lakes and want to go back to heaven and earth to board a boat" is his self-deprecating lament, which is the root of his melancholy. As a scholar who has no position without struggle, he can't be intoxicated with his Du Like Mu, so his personality can't be as cheerful as Du Mu's, but he always falls into a kind of hard-to-solve melancholy.

Just as the friendship between Li Bai and Du Fu is profound, the relationship between Xiao Li and Du Fu is also very good, and there are also poems between them. Li Shangyin wrote two poems to Du Mu and Du Sixun, saying, "Deliberately hurt the spring, take it back and bid farewell to Du Sixun chinese odyssey", and "Give Thirteen Members to Si" said, "The predecessor should be the general manager Liang Jiang, and the general manager has always insisted on his words", which is extremely admirable. However, just as the deep affection between Li Bai and Du Fu still can't change the difference between them, the difference between Xiao Li and Du Fu is also great. Their differences in temperament, origins and thoughts have led their poems to two completely different paths. Du Mu's aristocratic temperament and aristocratic legacy make his poems full of bright and rational spirit, while Li Shangyin's romantic sentiment and inferiority complex make his poems contain emotional lingering complex.

In fact, in the late Tang Dynasty, many literati were in the same situation and position as Du Li, but their temperament, personality and thoughts were different from Du Li's. Although they are full of complaints, they all try to hide their temperament in another way, so in the end, most of the poems may be picturesque, and the artistic conception is inevitably much narrower. Perhaps circumstances, status and experience background are not the only factors that determine a poet's poetic style. In contrast, many poets in the late Tang Dynasty are inevitably narrower, more embarrassed and shallower in content than Du Li. Color should be light, artistic conception should be vulgar, and there are often thousands of people. Therefore, at the end of Tang poetry, Du Mu and Li Shangyin were almost two Gemini stars, which painted the strongest and most magnificent stroke on this poem.