If we don’t talk about anything else, just talking about his works, Du Fu’s works are indeed more widely circulated than Xin Qiji’s works. Not only that, there will be Xiao Li Du in later generations, but there will be no Xiao Xin Qiji.
Let’s talk about Du Fu first. As a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu and Li Bai are equally famous. Du Fu was a very staunch Confucian thinker, and the idea he believed in most was the benevolent government in Confucianism. In fact, I think Du Fu's life is very similar to the lives of some well-known painters. They were average when they were alive, but became famous after they died. Du Fu's poetry not only influenced subsequent China, but also influenced Japanese culture.
Let’s talk about Xin Qiji, a bold poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. Not only that, he was also a general capable of both literary and military skills. From this aspect, Xin Qiji is more powerful than Du Fu. The era that Xin Qiji lived in was the Southern Song Dynasty during the Anti-Jin Dynasty. Although the styles of Xin Qiji's works in that era were varied, they were generally filled with tragic and indignant patriotism or the mountains and rivers of the motherland. Most of them are not as deep as Du Fu's, but of course, they are very interesting to read.
In fact, if we don’t look at the status in the literary world, but just look at the overall quality of the individual, I think Xin Qiji is worse than Du Fu. However, the subject of the question here only compares the status in the literary world, so it is a pity, battlefield The heroic and patriotic general Xin Qiji is indeed inferior to Du Fu, because his profession requires him not to write poems and lyrics every day. His duty is to fight against the Jin Dynasty and protect his family and country.
Besides, Du Fu’s works are rich in poetry. Poetry has been the orthodoxy of the Chinese literary world for so many years. Didn’t we all learn the poem about the moonlight before the bed when we were young? And what about Xin Qiji’s Song lyrics? Although the Song Dynasty valued literature and thought Song lyrics were good, the influence of Song lyrics was far less than that of poetry.
Finally, let me talk about a very real issue, that is, this is the choice of history, this is the choice of the times. In our textbooks, let’s count them by ourselves. Which one has more words, Xin Qiji’s or Du Fu’s? How many poems are there? I think everyone should know this.