The Two Greatest Chinese Poets: Li Bai 李白 and Du Fu 杜甫 part 1

Li Bai 李白and Du Fu 杜甫 are regarded as the greatest poets in Chinese history. There is still no consensus on who is the greatest even today among the Chinese. The two of them were not only living at the same time but also great friends, at least according to Du Fu. In this video I am going to show you two excerpts from Du Fu’s two very long poems he composed about Li Bai. I would like to explain what sort of friendship they had and how much Du Fu admired Li Bai, both as a mentor and a friend. If you tell Du Fu that one day he would be regarded as an equally significant poet, he was not going to believe you!!
00:00-01:54 Introduction
01:55-04:53 The friendship between Li Bai 李白 and Du Fu 杜甫
04:54-12:05 Poem excerpt 1 Twenty Rhymes for Li the Twelve Bai 寄李十二白二十韵
12:06-21:29 Poem excerpt 2 Expressing my feelings 遣怀
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[@SeenaMusic]

Wow - beautiful poems❤Thank you for explaining them🙏🙏!

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Thanks Seena!!

[@jirik2435]

At 19:00 "flushed with excitement" would probably be better than "putting colours on my face with excitement".
Another great video.

[@ladysweetann]

Спасибо за замечательное видео!

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Thank you for your comment!! Sorry I don't read your language, what is it?

[@ladysweetann]

@@dr.gaosclassroom Oh, I'm sorry! I wrote: "Thanks for the wonderful video!". English is not my native language and I was afraid to write something wrong. So I wrote in Russian😅 I thought you had a built-in comment translator on TH-cam...
But now I will write you comments in English! ^^"

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Thank you! I kind of guessed it might be Russian. But I don't want to be wrong, so I just asked. It is fine if you like to comment with Russian. I think your English is very good. You can also write in Chinese if you like! Are you learning Chinese? @@ladysweetann

[@jiancai_nocturne]

[风歌一] ---------- Jian Cai, Sep.12, 2023, in Canada
刘兰平唱
大鹏同风起
扶摇九万里
丈夫畏后生
宣父岂可少
裴炎唱
大鹏振八裔
中吹力不济
馀风激万世
扶桑游石袂
二重唱
后人得痴传
后人德痴传
仲尼亡谁为
仲尼亡出涕

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Thank you!

[@courant9390]

Please write the poems in the classical Chinese letters since the poetry was written in Tang dynasty.

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

Thank you for reminding me this. I did change my fond to the classical letters in recently videos. Please check them out.

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

The classical letters look so much better than the simplified ones!!