Category: Du Mu

Du Mu: Government Officials Dao Yi, Cun Zhi, and Ting Mei

 

[updated October 2022]

 

Government Officials Dao Yi, Cun Zhi, and Ting Mei all Learned Scholars Depend Upon the Great Wisdom and Insight of Our Current Ruler, Naturally Heaven Has Given Us All Many Blessings These Past Years, I Am Becoming Poor and Ill, My Last Chance For a Government Assignment, Want Good Songs and Poems to Be Remembered, So I Made These Lines of Four Sweet Sounds For the Three Men of Noble Character

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Du Mu: I Modeled This Poem After the Ones of High-Level Minister Mr. Bai

 

[updated October 2022]

 

I Modeled This Poem After the Ones of High-Level Minister Mr. Bai, Sacred Virtues and Peace Achieved at the End of Commotions, This Year Eventually Accomplished Success, I Join Bai’s Chanting of Profound Understanding and Present This to His Three Assistant Ministers in the Style of Chang Ju Si Yun

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Du Mu: Today Muster More Troops

 

[updated October 2022]

 

Today Muster More Troops, His Majesty the Emperor Issued a Conscription Imperial Edict, Quickly We Achieved Military Success, Xinjiang Has Many Different Prefectures, One After Another They Surrendered, This Government Official Obtained Honor and Sacred Success, Soon After We Sang and Chanted

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