Two orioles singing green willows: two orioles singing gently among the green willows, and a team of neat egrets heading straight for the blue sky. Sitting by the window, I can see the snow piled up all the year round on the Xiling Mountain, and ships from Soochow outside Wan Li are moored in front of the door.

Source: From Du Fu's Jueju in Tang Dynasty.

The original poem is as follows:

"Two yellow orioles are singing atop the green willows, White egrets soar into the sky in a row"

My window frames the snow-crowned western mountain scene. My door oft says to eastward-going ships “Goodbye”

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Orioles and green willows show a lively atmosphere, while egrets and blue sky give people a calm and comfortable feeling. The word "song" shows the bird's self-satisfaction. The word "Shang" shows the leisure and elegance of egrets. Yellow, green, white and blue are interlaced in color, showing the beautiful scenery of spring and conveying the poet's cheerful and comfortable mood.

Creation background

This group of poems was written in the spring of 764, the second year of Guangde, Tang Daizong. In the first year of Baoying, Tang Suzong (762), Yin Yanwu of Chengdu entered the DPRK, and there was unrest in Shu. Du Fu once avoided Zizhou (ruling Santai, Sichuan). The following year, the Anshi Rebellion was put down, and one year later, Yanwu returned to Chengdu to make his way to Shu again.

Du Fu learned the news of this old friend and followed him back to Chengdu Caotang. At this time, Du Fu's mood was particularly comfortable. Faced with a vibrant scene, he couldn't help but write this group of impromptu poems. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Siyuan's Du Yi said that this group of poems was "built after Buju Caotang, and it is planned to stay here for the rest of his life, but this is the case with self-narration".