Du Mu's Poem on Tanabata: "Tanabata" The clouds, the moon, and the earth have passed each other by, and we have not yet reached the end of the years of parting with much hatred. I hate the rain in the morning, but I don't want to go back and cross the heavenly river.
The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Seven Qiao Festival, Seven Sisters Festival, Daughters Festival, Beggar's Day, Seven Maidens' Meeting, Tanabata Festival, Bull Bull's Day, Qiao Xi, etc., is a traditional festival of Chinese folklore. The Tanabata Festival evolved from the worship of the starry hosts, and is traditionally known as the Birthday of the Seven Sisters, so it is called Tanabata because the worship of the Seven Sisters is held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.
Worshipping the Seven Sisters, praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skillful craftsmanship, watching the star of Altair and Vega, praying for marriage, and storing water for Tanabata are all traditional customs of Tanabata. Through historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", which makes it a festival symbolizing love, and thus is considered the most romantic traditional festival in China, and in contemporary times, it has even generated the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".
Du Mu (803-852), the character Muzhi, was a native of Wannian (now Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province) in Jingzhao. He was a literary scholar of the Tang Dynasty and grandson of the prime minister Du You. During the reign of Dahuo, Du Mu passed the examination for jinshi, and was appointed as the secretary of the Huainan section of the government, the supervisor of the imperial censor, the judge of the Xuanzhou regiment, the royal inspector of the Imperial Palace, the internal supply minister, the left complementary queer, the compiler of the Historical Hall, and the minister of the Sihun department, and he was also sent out to be the assassin of the states of Huang, Chih, Mutsu, and Hu.
He was a man of upright character, who did not care for small formalities and did not care to be flattered. He was conceited of his talent for strategizing, and his poems and writings were well known. The most famous of his poems was the A Fang Gong Fu, and his poems were bright and meaningful, especially praised for their poetic excerpts, which were known as Xiao Du. He was also known as "Little Li Du", together with Li Shangyin. His masterpieces, such as "Parking at the Qinhuai River", "Jiangnan Spring", "Red Cliff", and "The Question of Wujiang Pavilion", are very popular.
Achievements
Du Mu's literary creation has a variety of achievements, poetry, fugue, and ancient texts are while famous. Du Mu advocated that all the literature to the meaning of the main, supplemented by gas, to the rhetoric chapter and sentence for the defense, the relationship between the content of the work and the form of a more correct understanding. He has a relatively correct understanding of the relationship between content and form, and is able to absorb and integrate the strengths of his predecessors in order to form his own special style.
Du Mu's ancient poems were influenced by Du Fu and Han Yu, with a wide range of subjects and a strong writing style. His proximate poems, on the other hand, are distinguished by their clear and elegant language and their rhythm. The poem "Early Geese" uses the technique of comparing and contrasting objects to express his nostalgia for the people in the northern border areas who have been displaced by the Uighur's intrusion, which has a gentle and lingering flavor.