Born in 803 A.D. in Jingzhao Wannian (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), Du Mu, known by his character Muzhi, originally came from a high-ranking scholarly family. His ancestor was the great poet Du Fu, his grandfather Du You was a prime minister in three dynasties, and his father Du Congyu, though not a great one, was a sixth-ranking official of the Ministry of Transportation.

By all accounts, Du Mu, living in such an affluent family of officials and eunuchs, would have been able to look forward to a bright future with no worries about food or clothing.

Unfortunately, when Du Mu was ten years old, his grandfather died. Soon after, his father died as well. Du Mu's family was in a state of decline. Du Mu, who had originally had great aspirations, lost his support, and had to live with his younger brother Du Yi, who was raised by his mother Cui with great care, through a period of difficult youthful years. The brothers had to move several times during the most difficult times, and at one point they had no place to live, even to the point of eating wild vegetables to sustain their lives.

However, these hardships did not deter Du Mu, but made him more resolute. Under the determination of "knowledge changes fate", Du Mu scrimped and saved, overcame all the difficulties he encountered in his youth, and studied as hard as Kuang Heng "chiseling the wall to steal the light", and at the age of less than 20, he had a good knowledge of the classics and history, and he also focused on military studies, becoming an all-around talent who could write and fight. He wrote thirteen annotations to Sun Tzu, and offered his advice to the prime minister, Li Deyu, on how to pacify the captives, which was highly praised and recognized as a pillar of greatness.

Du Mu was 23 when he wrote his famous political treatise "A Fang Palace Fu". This explosive essay was later selected as a secondary school textbook. At that time it also paved the way for him to enter the imperial examinations.

Because of this piece of writing, Du Mu was y appreciated by Dr. Wu Wuling of the Imperial College. Right after Du Mu took the imperial examination at the age of 26, Wu Wuling approached the examiner Cui Shao, who was then the minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies, and applied for a direct fixing of Du Mu as the top scholar.

Du Mu's "unpretentious" style of life was the only reason for his failure. However, Du Mu failed to win the laurel, but still to the fifth place in the good grades and the first, and then high school Xianliangfangzheng straight advice section, was authorized to Hongwenkan school book Lang position, and thus entered the civil service.

Du Mu for the poem "and after sending Chang'an old man", expressed his excitement and joy at the time of the examination: Dongdu release list is not blossomed, thirty-three people walk back to the horse. The young people of Qin land make a lot of wine, but the color of spring into the pass.

See, at that time, Du Mu, strengths and weaknesses are very obvious, its talent is indeed outstanding, but also stained with the Tang literati is very common in the indulgence of the social habits, for his later preference for the red snuggle green Yangzhou, failed to realize the justice and other ambitious planted the cause.

Du Mu initially in Chang'an after two years as a small Beijing official, was sent down to the local, began a decade-long work of the local staff of the guest of honor, so that "ten years of staff of the House of Justice, promote the bundle of the book feast between the tour."

History tells us that in 833 AD, 30-year-old Du Mu was recognized by Huainan governor Niu Shengru, who awarded him the post of Yangzhou magistrate, and later became the secretary of the palace.

From there, Du Mu worked as the secretary-general of Yangzhou for three years. After his official duties, he was in Yangzhou at times intoxicated by the prosperity of the smoke and willow to entertain themselves, said:

Man's place is home, a hundred bells of gold a flower.

Where is the good spring breeze? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

According to research, Du Mu later wrote four famous poems related to Yangzhou. The most famous of these is "Reminiscence," which Du Mu wrote in 842 AD when he was 40 years old and serving as Huangzhou's assassin, remembering the dreamlike years he had spent in Yangzhou ten years earlier, earning him the title of "Poet of the Wind and Flow":

Fallen in the wind and carrying wine in the river, I was light in the palm of my hand with a slender waist.

Ten years of dreaming in Yangzhou, won the name of the green house.

The two "Farewell" poems were written by Du Mu when he left Yangzhou and went to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to serve as the imperial inspector, which also shows Du Mu's life in Yangzhou:

Peacefully curling up to thirteen years ago, and the beginning of February at the tip of the cardamom.

The spring breeze is ten miles away from Yangzhou, and the pearl curtains are not as good as the curtains that are rolled up. (A Farewell.

They are very sentimental, but they seem to have no feelings at all, and they can't smile in front of the bottle.

The candles are still cherishing their farewells, and they are shedding tears until dawn.

Another poem, "Send to Judge Han Chuo of Yangzhou," is also very famous. It is a poem he wrote to Han Chuo, a colleague and a good friend of his, after he left Yangzhou. This poem also proves that Du Mu was so fond of Yangzhou:

The green hills are hidden and the water is far away, and the grass in Jiangnan has not withered yet at the end of autumn.

The night of the twenty-four bridges under the bright moon, where does the jade man teach his blowjob?

Du Mu worked in Yangzhou for only three years before he was drafted into the supervisory cadre at the age of 35 in 835 A.D. and sent to Luoyang, the capital of the east, to work. Three years later, Du Mu was again transferred to the post of judge of the Xuanzhou regiment.

The following year, in 839, at the age of 36, Du Mu returned to Chang'an to work as a compiler in the history hall, and in 840, he was promoted to be a minister of the food ministry, and in 841, he was transferred to be a minister of the Bi ministry.

Soon, Du Mu was ostracized in the "Niu and Li Party Controversy" and was sent out to Huangzhou. Three years later, he was transferred to Chizhou.

In 848 A.D., at the age of 45, Du Mu, under the patronage of Edward Zhou, an important member of the Niu Party, returned to Chang'an to take charge of the history of the library, and in 850, he was promoted to the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 850, he was promoted to the post of Minister of Revenue. Soon after, Du Mu, feeling that he had nothing to do, asked to be sent out as the assassin of Huzhou. In 851 A.D., Du Mu returned to the capital and was transferred to the post of examiner.

In this way, Du Mu's career was a series of ups and downs, and he was approaching the end of his days. His life, which was originally very ambitious, did not go smoothly, and he actually accomplished nothing except the blossoming of his marvelous literary talent.

In the last year of his life, 852 A.D., Du Mu was appointed as a fifth-ranking official, the highest rank in his service. In that year, Du Mu, sensing that his time was coming, redecorated his house and named it "Fanchuan Villa", where he traveled from time to time with three or five friends to complete the editing of "Fanchuan Wenshu" (Collected Writings of Fanchuan).

In the winter of that year, Du Mu died at the age of less than fifty.