171. On Hearing the Imperial Forces Have Recovered Henan and Hebei | Du Fu

浦起龙《读杜心解》称此诗为「杜老生平第一首快诗」。广德元年（763）春，延续七年多的安史之乱以史朝义自缢、河北收复告终，流寓梓州的杜甫听到消息，一气写下这五十六字。全诗的「快」体现在三处：一是反应快，忽传、初闻、即从、便下，一连串即时词汇；二是动作快，漫卷诗书根本不收拾整齐；三是归心快，四个地名在想象中一瞬走完。律诗讲究含蓄舒缓，这首偏以速度取胜，八句一气贯注，被公认为以律体写狂喜的孤例。

Pu Qilong's Reading Du Fu with the Heart calls this the swiftest poem of Du Fu's whole life. In the spring of 763, the An Lushan rebellion, seven years and more, ended with Shi Chaoyi's suicide and the recovery of Hebei; Du Fu, a refugee in Zizhou, heard the news and wrote these fifty-six characters in one breath. The swiftness shows three ways: in reaction — suddenly comes, at first hearing, straightaway, then down, a string of instant words; in motion — the books swept up, never packed neatly; in homing speed — four place names crossed in imagination in a night. Regulated verse prizes restraint and ease; this poem wins by velocity alone, eight lines in one pour, acknowledged as the lone example of ecstasy written in the regulated form.

即从巴峡穿巫峡，便下襄阳向洛阳——这十四个字被历代评家分析最多。地理上是真实可行的路线：从梓州顺江穿三峡，出峡到襄阳，再陆路北上洛阳。句式的妙处在两组动词：从、穿是逆水而上的艰难，下、向是顺流出峡的轻快，归途的节奏全在动词里。更妙的是这一切并未发生——人还坐在梓州，行程完全在想象里。诗评家常拿它与李白「千里江陵一日还」相比：李白是夸张写实，杜甫是纯粹的想象飞行，一个流亡者用十四个字提前完成了回家的路。

Straightaway from Ba Gorge through Wu Gorge, then down to Xiangyang and on toward Luoyang — fourteen characters analyzed by every generation. The route is geographically real: downriver from Zizhou through the Three Gorges, out to Xiangyang, then overland north to Luoyang. The device lives in the two pairs of verbs: from and through, the hard upstream labor; down and toward, the swift release of the current — the rhythm of homecoming carried entirely in the verbs. And none of it is happening: the man still sits in Zizhou, the journey wholly imagined. Critics set it beside Li Bai's a thousand li to Jiangling in a single day: Li Bai exaggerates a real journey; Du Fu flies on pure imagination — a fugitive completing the road home fourteen characters ahead of time.

听到大好消息的第一反应是哭，这是这首诗最真实的细节。七年战乱里杜甫丢过官、饿过孩子、在长安「卖药都市」，妻子儿女跟着颠沛——收复的消息一到，压了七年的东西决堤而出。第二句却看妻子愁何在才是转折：他要在家人脸上确认这份喜是大家的，看见愁容散尽才敢喜欲狂。这种反应顺序（先哭、再看、后狂）写尽了一个负着一家老小的中年人接到解脱消息时的状态：喜悦从来不是一个人的事。王嗣奭评此诗「一字一泪」，说反了——这是一字一喜，只是喜到深处，形状与泪相同。

The first response to great good news is weeping — the truest detail of the poem. Through seven years of war Du Fu lost office, watched his children go hungry, sold medicine in the markets of Chang'an, his wife and children dragged through every upheaval — when the recovery came, what had been pressed down for seven years broke out at once. The turn is the next line: he turns to look at wife and children, where has the sorrow gone — he must confirm on their faces that this joy belongs to everyone, and only then dares go wild. This order — weep first, look second, rave last — is exactly a middle-aged man burdened with a whole household receiving the news of release: joy is never one person's affair. A critic once called the poem one word, one tear; it is the reverse — one word, one joy, joy at its deepest wearing the shape of tears.