Mainland scholar Guo Moruo, in his article "Li Bai and Du Fu", when talking about Du Fu's death, he tended to say that Du Fu died because of food. Guo Moruo reasoned very skillfully: Why did eating meat and drinking alcohol kill Du Fu? Because what Du Fu ate was rotten meat! It would be strange to die from poisoning if you eat carrion
There have always been different opinions on the cause of Du Fu's death. "Old Book of Tang·Biography of Du Fu": "In the second year of Yongtai, he died in Leiyang overnight at the age of fifty-nine after eating beef and white wine." The original biography of "New Book of Tang" records: "... Guo Moruo wrote in "Li Bai In the book "With Du Fu", he made a special discussion on the cause of Du Fu's death. He believed that Du Fu did die from beef liquor, but it was not "dead" but poisoned.
According to the teachings of Zheng Chuhui of the Tang Dynasty. "Minghuang Zalu" says that Du Fu died of beef and white wine. In the summer of the fifth year of Dali (AD 770), Du Fu arrived in Leiyang to escape the war, and encountered a flood, so the ship was anchored at Fangtian Station. There was no food and he was starving for about ten days. After learning about it, the county magistrate Nie sent Du Fu to eat too much and died in one night. There must have been a lot of beef, but Du Fu didn't finish it all at once. It was hot and the meat was not well refrigerated, so it was poisonous and it was entirely possible that Du Fu died of poisoning. The article said that there is a domestic expert on Du Fu who has a unique research result in the world. He spent 19 years researching to prove that Du Fu died from eating beef, so he became an authority.
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In front of the screen wall of the thatched cottage, the president and his wife took a group photo here like other tourists. Then they came to the "Daya Hall" , Chirac stood for a long time in front of the sculpture of Du Fu and Li Bai swimming together. Chirac, who loved to read Tang poetry and had a deep study of Tang Dynasty culture, admired Li Bai and Du Fu, and even wrote an article introducing Li Bai. He discussed Du Fu with his tour guide Yao Fei. The president said that he read in a book that Du Fu died from eating beef and drinking alcohol. Yao Fei tactfully corrected that authoritative experts now believe that Du Fu died from diabetes (diabetes). The president smiled happily and said that he had died again. Learned something.