Du Fu’s representative poems

Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". Du Fu wrote more than 1,500 poems in his life, many of which are famous poems that have been passed down through the ages, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", and "Du Gongbu Collection" has been handed down to the world; among them, "Three Officials" is "Shi Hao" Officials", "Xin'an Officials" and "Tongguan Officials", the "three farewells" are "Newlywed Farewell", "Homeless Farewell" and "Elderly Farewell". Du Fu's poems handed down are the most numerous and most extensive among Tang poems. He was one of the most outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty and had a profound influence on later generations. Du Fu's works are known as the devastation of the world, the sage in the poem; the suffering of the people, the waves in the writing. He is a realist poet. For example:

The endless falling trees rustle and the endless Yangtze River rolls by. ——Du Fu's "Ascend the High"

To shoot the man first, shoot the horse; to capture the thief, capture the king first. ——Du Fu's "Nine Poems Before Leaving the Fortress·Sixth"

Death before leaving the army quickly will make the hero burst into tears. ——Du Fu's "The Prime Minister of Shu"

The stars hang down on the vast plains, and the moon surges across the river. ——Du Fu's "Walking at Night"

The rivers and mountains are beautiful in Chiri, and the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and plants. ——Du Fu's "Two Quatrains"

Life without meeting each other is like participating in business. ——Du Fu's "A Presentation to the Eight Immortals of the Guard"

When you stand at the top of the mountain, you can see all the mountains and small ones at a glance. ——Du Fu's "Wang Yue"

Two orioles sang in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascended to the blue sky. ——Du Fu's "Quatrains"

Good rain knows the season, and spring will happen. ——Du Fu's "Joyful Rain on a Spring Night"

I feel the flowers splashing with tears when I feel the time, and hate the birds that are leaving. ——Du Fu's "Spring Hope"

Wanli's sad autumn is always a guest, and he has been sick for a hundred years and only appears on the stage. ——Du Fu's "Climbing High"

It is the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and you will see it again when the flowers are falling. ——Du Fu's "The Year of Li Gui in the South of the Yangtze River"

This song should only exist in heaven, and can only be heard several times in the world. ——Du Fu's "Gift to the Flower Queen"

The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city has deep vegetation in spring. ——Du Fu's "Spring Hope"

Li Bai's 100 poems about drinking wine. He slept in a restaurant in Chang'an City, but the emperor couldn't get on the boat because of the emperor's call. He claimed that he was a wine fairy. ——Du Fu's "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking"

Read thousands of volumes and write like a god. ——Du Fu's "Twenty-Two Rhymes from Wei Zuocheng"

Piao Piao is not like a sand gull in the sky and the earth. ——Du Fu's "Walking at Night"

Wealth must come from hard work, and a man must read five carts of books. ——Du Fu's "Bachelor's Thatched Cottage"

A cluster of peach blossoms blooms without an owner, are the lovely dark reds loved light reds? ——Du Fu "Walking Alone by the River Looking for Flowers Part 5"

Fish come out in the drizzle, and swallows slant in the breeze. ——Du Fu's "Two Poems on the Water Threshold to Heart"

The wine and meat in Zhumen stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road. ——Du Fu "From Beijing to Fengxian County, Five Hundred Words of Ode to My Heart / From Beijing to Fengxian County, to Ode to Five Hundred Words of My Heart"

The pen fell in the storm, and the poem became a poem that wept ghosts and gods. ——Du Fu's "Twenty Rhymes to Li Twelve and White"

I don't know how old I am when I am young, and wealth and honor are like floating clouds to me. ——Du Fu's "Pictures Presented to General Cao"

The mud melts and swallows fly, and the sand warms the mandarin ducks sleeping. ——Du Fu's "Two Quatrains"

Tomorrow, across the mountains, the world will be confused. ——Du Fu's "Gift to the Eight Imperial Guards"

There are tens of millions of mansions in Guangde, which can shelter all the poor people in the world with joy, and remain as safe as a mountain despite the wind and rain. ——Du Fu's "Song of Thatched Cottage Broken by the Autumn Wind"

Tonight and what night, this lamp and candlelight will shine.

——Du Fu's "A Gift to the Eight Virtues of the Guard"