Du Fu mentioned Confucianism many times in his poems, such as "great Confucianism", "Confucian scholar", "Confucian crown" and "corrupt Confucianism". Although it is described with different emotional colors, it shows his deep feelings for Confucianism. Du Fu is a Confucian. We can even say that Du Fu never left Confucianism from birth to death.
Du Fu was born in a feudal intellectual family, which has a family style of respecting Confucius since ancient times. We often say that a person's growth environment has a great influence on him and his development. Du Fu grew up in a family that advocated Confucianism, and he was inevitably educated by Confucianism and Confucian culture. Under the education and edification of Confucianism, Du Fu's greatest influence is to accept the positive and promising life values of Confucianism.
On Du Fu's Family Style
The Du family has practiced filial piety since ancient times. In addition to Du Fu's paternal family, his maternal family also attached great importance to filial piety, and Du Fu himself also appreciated his filial piety. In such an environment of living since childhood, Du Fu is bound to be influenced by the family style of filial piety, and gradually grow into a person with deep filial piety, and practice this concept with his own practical actions.
Du Fu's love for his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, expanded into his love for friends, then for ordinary people, and even for everything in the world. It can be seen that if there is no initial love for the family, then everything in the future seems to be insufficient. Besides Confucianism, Du Fu's love for his family was influenced by the filial piety of his family members.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Du Fu.