is restoring
political
order.
Du Fu - 5
The supreme commander tunes the pitch-pipes anew,1 the vanguard is hard upon the former capital.
After pacifying the border you will again join the entourage, 60 let your deeds and fame fall behind none.
5.
14 Seeing Off Administrative Assistant Yang (6) On a Mission to Tibet Sending you afar, the autumn wind sinks away, the Kokonor weather is cold as you journey west.
Ill-omened vapors fill the imperial city, 4 in the human world parting is hard.
Even those farthest regions feel anger,2 by a marriage pact we wish to form good ties.
3 An imperial letter expresses affection for the Btsan-po,4 8 those in armor gaze toward Chang?
an.
A proclamation made that the journey ahead is urgent, the good man treats his gentlemen generously.
5 May our Ziyun be pure and guard himself,6 12 this day you have been raised to an official post.
Shedding tears, you now cast down your brush,7 and at once grasp your saddle, lamenting the times.
1 Suzong?
s son, Li Chu, the Prince of Guangping, was made supreme commander.
?
Tuning the pitch-pipes?
is restoring political order. 2 Presumably anger at the rebel occupation of the capital. 3 With the Tibetans. 4 The Btsan-po was the term for the ruler of Tibet. 5 Nan Juchuan, the head of the mission to Tibet. 6 Du Fu refers to Yang in terms of the Han writer *Yang Xiong (Ziyun). 7 ? Casting down one? s brush? refers to giving up a scholar? s role for a military position, as Ban Chao did when he went to serve in the army in the Eastern Han. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 316 ? ? ? ? ?
is restoring political order. 2 Presumably anger at the rebel occupation of the capital. 3 With the Tibetans. 4 The Btsan-po was the term for the ruler of Tibet. 5 Nan Juchuan, the head of the mission to Tibet. 6 Du Fu refers to Yang in terms of the Han writer *Yang Xiong (Ziyun). 7 ? Casting down one? s brush? refers to giving up a scholar? s role for a military position, as Ban Chao did when he went to serve in the army in the Eastern Han. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 316 ? ? ? ? ?
