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Brief: This article profiles Li Bai and Du Fu, the two greatest poets of Tang Dynasty. It covers their contrasting styles – Li Bai as the free-spirited “Poet Immortal” and Du Fu as the compassionate “Poet Sage” – their lives through the An-Shi Rebellion, their brief friendship, and their tragic later years. Their works…
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by Chen Shubao Fair pavilions and fragrant woods stand by the lofty towers,Her newly dressed beauty outshines the whole city’s charms.Her tender grace glints by the gate, she lingers at first,Then steps from the curtain, smiling with graceful airs.Her lovely face like flowers draped in dewdrops glows,Jade trees’ bright radiance fills the rear courtyard.Flowers…
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By Su Shi (Song Dynasty) In the autumn of the Renxu year, on the sixteenth day of the seventh month, I sailed with my guests beneath the Red Cliff. A gentle breeze blew softly; the river lay calm without a ripple. Raising my cup to toast my companions, I recited poems of the bright…
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— Bai Juyi The departing sunbeams pave a way on the river; Half of its waves turn red and the other half shiver. How I love the third night of the ninth moon aglow! The dewdrops look like pearls, the crescent like a bow.
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Chen Baoyue, a native of Fujian Province, was the chief executive of Qinzhou dao (Trans. Note: Dao in ancient China was an administrative division under the province).
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After snatching the Tang Monk, the old man headed toward a stone house completely shrouded in mist.