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China's two favourite poets Li Bai and Du Fu were born about
1,300 years ago. In China, the language has changed so l
1 that poem
s remain easy for modern Chinese people to read. And their themes are s
2 about friendship, love and landscapes.
If you were to ask any kids in the street, "What was the greatest dynasty in China's history?" Nine out of ten of them would
a 3 the Tang dynasty. Every Chinese person learns poems by Li Bai and Du Fu from childhood. "They are as
i 4 in Chinese literary history as Shakespeare is to people in Britain," says historian Yuan Haiwang, writer of This Is China: The First 5,000 Years.
"I remember when my son was only a baby held in my
a 5, I began to teach him some of the poems, even though of course he couldn't remember all of them. But that's what the Chinese do."
Back in the Tang dynasty, Li Bai and Du Fu first
m 6 in the year 744, when Li Bai, already a well-known poet, was 43 years of age and Du Fu was 32. They admired each other and quickly became friends. The two poets met only a couple of times during their lives.
But they wrote m
any poems to and
a 7 each other. In one poem, Du Fu wrote: When can we again hold a cup of wine, and chat about poem-writing line by l
8? (From Missing Li Bai on a Spring Day)
Li Bai and Du Fu formed a lasting
f 9, which ties one heart to the other no matter how far away they are from each other.
Today most Chinese people can still remember Li Bai's and Du Fu's poems. And they also
e 10 their children to read their poems. Li Bai and Du Fu aren't only in our textbooks but in our minds.
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little
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still
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answer
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important
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arms
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met
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about
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line
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friendship
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encourage