refers to giving up a
scholar?
Du Fu - 5
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 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 16 ? ?
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 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 16 ? ?
