NEW EXPLANATION FOR WRITING TIME AND PLACE OF DU FU'S 《WRITING AT A TRAVEL NIGHT》

Writing at a Travel Night》is one of DU Fu's famous poems,selected in 《ancient Chinese》as a textbook in institutions of higher learning in China,but the chronology of the poem has ever been inaccurate.In this article,the writer has rejected the sayings of writing at Yuzhong in the first year of Yongtai from both the description of scenery and the expression of feelings and is sure that it was written in the boat from Three Gorges to the Jianghan Plain in January,the third year of Dali.