Nice translation. AFAIK Dufu lived in Sichuan. The river he referred to was probably the Yangtse, which flows through southern Sichuan across central China to S

Nice translation. AFAIK Dufu lived in Sichuan. The river he referred to was probably the Yangtse, which flows through southern Sichuan across central China to Shanghai (which didn't exist in Dufu's day, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Nanjing were far wealthier). You can still find quiet places on the upper Yangtse where land is cheap and nature plentiful, though mostly in neighbouring Yunnan province.