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Alfreda Murck points out the contrast between the geese here landing in the marsh, and the later Xiaoxiang poetry convention of geese and the level sand Alfreda Murck notes the striking contrast between the harmonious sounds of the wild geese in this poem with the ineffable sadness expressed elsewhere in the Shijing , such as in particular, in the "Wild Geese" poem 75; and, note 8, Other vivid images of geese in the Shijing involve an archer on the ground, shooting them down with arrows.
This is an example of the implication from the orderly flight of wild geese, in which their "habit of flying in a V-shaped wedge was read as a model of order and hierarchy, a concept which applied to both family and court. Brothers were likened to geese flying in close formation, and a man in high office was compared to a goose soaring to heaven" Murck, The other early specialized collection Chinese poems Chuci : not as old of an anthology as is the Shijing , some of the poems of the Chuci rival the poems of the Shijing in age.
Geese also inhabit the Chuci. Circumstantial evidence indicates that he had some relationship with Qu Yuan as a relative, student, or follower. David Hawkes translates this line as:. Geese are a major motif in Han dynasty era poetry, including the yuefu of the Music Bureau and the folk or folk-style ballads of the Nineteen Old Songs. The story of Han diplomat Su Wu endures in importance. Chinese legends of geese include the story of Su Wu : in the days of old, old Su Wu, spent 19 years, captive of Xiongnu.
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There is a story about Su Wu which became a common allusion in Chinese poetry. Su Wu was an historical figure, however his legend has evolved into the folk realm. There are thus many variations of his story, though much can be attested to historically.
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Su lead a diplomatic mission of several official envoys to the Xiongnu ruler, Chedihou , whose official title was Chanyu. The Chinese delegation became embroiled in a plot against the Xiongnu leadership; and, upon the plot's failure, they were all arrested. Some of the Chinese delegates were killed, and Su Wu was put into captivity, where he remained for 19 years.
Upon his arrest, Su Wu refused to cooperate, and was imprisoned in a cellar. Accounts state that he was provided with neither food nor water, in an effort to elicit his cooperation. Remaining obstinate, Su Wu managed by eating the lining of his coat for food and melting the snow which drifted into his prison for water to drink. Upon his surviving this ordeal, the Xiongnu continued to hold him captive, and attempting to obtain his cooperation.
The Xiongnu, rather than truly reporting the state of affairs to the Chinese, instead reported that he had died Murck, 75 ; but, he was kept alive, and sent to work as a nomadic herdsperson, in which capacity he is generally supposed to have retained his official staff of office.
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As the years went by, Su was elevated in status, even it is said given a wife who bore him children. In the meantime, China and Xiongnu continued to conduct mutual hostilities, diplomacy was placed on the back burner, and Su Wu continued to herd the flocks of animals to which duty he was assigned, by the Xiongnu chanyu. Various events occurred including a lull in actual combat, and the two sides again turned to diplomacy, in order to reconcile their differences: the Han emperor sending another ambassadorial mission toward the territory in which Su Wu was being held.
Presumably in order avoid diplomatic complications, the Xiongnu continued their attempt to conceal the presence of Su Wu. However, according to the historical account, the new Chinese diplomatic mission tricked the chanyu by claiming that the emperor shot down a wild goose with a message from Su Wu tied to its foot Murck, And so, the story goes,the chanyu fell for the bluff, and rather than risk diplomatic embarrassment, Su Wu was released, returning to China in 81 BCE Murck, The story of Su Wu is at least part of the origin of the use of the image of a flying goose as a messenger Alfreda Murck calls it the " locus classicus " , wherein the goose appears carrying a written message tied to its foot perhaps symbolically — a letter between two people separated so far seasonally north and south that a migrating goose could indeed be conceived as a plausible mode of communication.
During the Tang dynastic era geese fly through the verse of the poets, or perhaps resting in the darkness of night on a level, sandy shore. Sometimes, bereft of mate and flock, the lone goose also makes an appearance. Since when the ancient Chu state had had its glory days, the "lakes and rivers region" around and south of Dongting Lake and its tributaries such as the Xiao had been located has long been poetically noted as a place of exile, where even the most talented and loyal government ministers and officials might be slandered at court and relegated to mosquito-infested swamp areas or sent to manage villages of non-Chinese ethnic peoples, in isolation from there intellectual pears and fellow poets.
During the Tang dynasty, there were many prominent men of letters who ended up in the Xiaoxiang as a result of political turbulence. He was also on-and-off one of the top officials under three reigning monarchs. In a parallel couplet, in his poem "South of the mountains sending off an official", Zhang explicitly compares and contrasts himself to an autumn goose: but when spring comes he finds himself still stuck south of the mountain ranges which separate him from the capital and the main area of Chinese civilization at the time, while the other geese get to go back north Murck, 76; and note 17, One of the many poets of the Tang dynastic era was Du Fu — Du Fu lived during what has been described as a golden age of poetry.
His grandfather was Du Shenyan , government official and poet one of his poems made it into the Tang poems anthology. His father also had a successful civil service career. Because his father's father, and his father were scholar-officials the road for Du Fu to be the same seemed reasonably smooth.
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Du Fu encountered a stumbling block in his career path, in , when he took and failed the civil service examinations. Then, about his father died; which, at the time, social propriety required a 3-year temporary retirement from public affairs, to take care of various family rituals and affairs. By , Du had managed to get an official appointment, one which he would be unable to fulfill. It looked that his prospects had finally overcome whatever hurdles had previously obstructed them: but then, in the final days of the powerful Tang general An Lushan rose in revolt.
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Geese in Chinese poetry
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