When I first saw the insignia of the
Metropolitan
Commandant,3 the aura over Nanyang was already renewed.
Du Fu - 5
s old friend Zheng Qian had been taken by An Lushan?
s forces�and forced to accept a post in An Lushan?
s regime.
Here he has returned to Chang?
an.
When Suzong?
s forces retook the capitals he was sent in exile to�Taizhou.
5.
3?
5 From the Capital Secretly Making My Way to Fengxiang and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one successfully got back.
1 My eyes stared in that direction, facing the setting sun, 4 in the heart that had died, cold ashes caught fire.
Lush trees led me on as I went, joined mountains suddenly appeared to my gaze.
Close friends were shocked that, gaunt and old, 8 I had, in bitter hardship, come from among the rebels.
II Sad thoughts on evenings with Hu fifes, a dismal spring in the parks of Han.
2 A return alive is what happened today, 4 for a while I had been someone on back roads.
When I first saw the insignia of the Metropolitan Commandant,3 the aura over Nanyang was already renewed. 4 1 That is, when he was in Chang? an the word was that no one could get through rebel-held territory to Qiyang, near which was Suzong? s temporary capital. 2 That is, in Chang? an. 3 This was the title held by Guangwudi, the restoration emperor who founded the Eastern Han, before he became emperor. 4 Nanyang was Guangwudi? s native place. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 286 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
When I first saw the insignia of the Metropolitan Commandant,3 the aura over Nanyang was already renewed. 4 1 That is, when he was in Chang? an the word was that no one could get through rebel-held territory to Qiyang, near which was Suzong? s temporary capital. 2 That is, in Chang? an. 3 This was the title held by Guangwudi, the restoration emperor who founded the Eastern Han, before he became emperor. 4 Nanyang was Guangwudi? s native place. Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 286 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
