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Time travel with classic poets

By Cheng Yuezhu | China Daily | Updated: 2022-02-15 09:38
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Poet Xi Chuan (right) discusses Tang-era poet Du Fu's work with another contemporary poet Zhai Yongming in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in the first episode of the documentary.[Photo provided to China Daily]

The recently released documentary Travel With Tang Poetry selects five eminent poets from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and in each episode, a scholar or artist is invited to retrace their footsteps during a representative period of their lives.

The first episode goes on a journey set by Du, hailed as "the poet sage", who lived out his remaining years in an itinerant state with his family members after the An Lushan Rebellion resulted in upheaval across the empire.

Contemporary poet Xi Chuan, presenter for this episode, says that, in his younger years, he used to prefer the "immortal poet" Li Bai, but the more life experience he accumulates, the more he admires Du, for the ease with which he exercised his creativity within prosody.

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