"If you write an article, you will know the gain and loss. "From the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's" My Topic ".

The original poem (excerpt):

The Accidental Topic (excerpt) Tang Dynasty: Du Fu

wrote an article that is eternal, and he knows the gains and losses. The authors are all different, and their reputation is soaring.

the poet is gone, and the Chinese way is flourishing. The predecessors flew in, and the rest was beautiful.

Interpretation:

Literary creation is related to a long time ago, but the success or failure in its creation is bitter and sweet, and only one knows it in his heart. Writers of all ages have their own unique achievements and status, so how can their reputation be easily spread to future generations?

It is a pity that all the writers of Sao-style poems, represented by Qu Yuan, are dead, and the poetry and literature creation in the Han Dynasty, especially the five-character poems in the Han Dynasty, has taken its place and prospered every day. At the end of the Han Dynasty, poets from Wei Chu, Jian 'an and Huang Chu were brave in innovation and jumped into the poetry world with vigorous posture. It is a pity that by the Northern and Southern Dynasties, poetry had become a mere formality.

Extended information:

This poem was written in the autumn of the first year of Dali (766), when Du Fu moved to Kuizhou (now fengjie county, Sichuan) in the spring of that year. This poem was written when Du Fu lived in Kuizhou in his later years, and he had a profound thinking and understanding of the inheritance and development law of poetry art and his own poetry creation practice.

Poems express Du Fu's views on poetry creation in his later years, which are of a summative nature. Therefore, Wang Siyuan's Du Yi said: "The article that this public devoted his whole life to became a Du Shi, and this article is his own preface (interpretation: Du Fu spent his whole life on poetry and finally wrote this article, which can be regarded as the preface of the article)".

The last sentence "eternal events" means that it is of great significance to remain for a long time, just as Cao Pi said, "An article is a great event to run the country (definition: an article is a great cause to govern the country, and it can be passed down to future generations and be immortal)".

The next sentence, "I know what I know", means that the author understands the article best. Although these two poems are based on discussion, they are neat in antithesis, highly generalized in language, and rich in connotation and philosophical.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Occasionally (Poems by Du Fu in Tang Dynasty)