杜荀鹤 (Dù Xúnhè) · Du Xunhe, late Tang dynasty poet

Meanings

1 Du Xunhe, late Tang dynasty poet

About Du Xunhe

846–904 · 诗人 poet

Late Tang poet who wrote in plain words about farmers ruined by war and taxes, as in 山中寡妇. His short poem 小松, about a young pine nobody notices until it towers over the grass, is often quoted.

Also called 彦之、九华山人

Characters

Xun (given name char.)

鹤

hè

crane

Examples

HSK 7-9

杜荀鹤是晚唐著名的现实主义诗人。

Dù Xúnhè shì wǎn Táng zhùmíng de xiànshízhǔyì shīrén.

Du Xunhe was a famous late-Tang realist poet.

HSK 7-9

杜荀鹤的诗多关注社会底层的疾苦。

Dù Xúnhè de shī duō guānzhù shèhuì dǐcéng de jíkǔ.

Du Xunhe's poems often focus on the suffering of society's lowest classes.

Tips

culture

His couplet 安禅不必须山水，灭得心中火自凉, 'meditation needs no hills and streams; quench the fire in your heart and even fire feels cool', is said, in a slightly changed form, to have been the death verse of a Japanese Zen monk burned in his temple by Oda Nobunaga's army in 1582.