He was only Li Bai's best friend before his death, but he was better than the poet after his death. How did Du Fu accomplish the counterattack?

In China's traditional culture, Tang poetry occupies a position that stands out from the rest. In the most glorious period of Tang poetry, many poets were born, among which Du Li, Li Bai and Du Fu are neck and neck in history. In the society at that time, Li Bai was much more famous than Du Fu, but later Du Fu's fame surpassed him after Li Bai's death. So how did Du Fu complete this counterattack?

Judging from the historical records at that time, Li Bai was a world-famous poet at that time and an academician of the imperial court. He has a good relationship with Tang Xuanzong, and his career and feelings are very smooth. At that time, Du Fu was 65,438+00 years younger than Li Bai. Their status can be said to be a sun and a moon. They know each other and have a good relationship. They often go out to play together. Drinking together is also recorded in each other's poems. According to the present words, Du Fu was a fan of Li Bai at that time, but Li Bai also knew more about Du Fu's talent and respected him more. In addition to Li Bai, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran at that time also had a good relationship with Du Fu and recognized Du Fu's talent, but until his later years, his position in the Tang Dynasty poetry circle was not very high. Because people preferred some positive poems at that time, Li Bai's poems were more in line with this temperament, while Du Fu's poems were not so positive, so Du Fu's poems were not included in some poetry collections published at that time.

But good poems will not be buried by history. Yuan Zhen was the first person to discover Du Fu's excellent poems. He found that Du Fu's poems were very good, even higher than those of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran before, whether in terms of words or artistic conception, so Du Fu's position in the market was discovered after his death, similar to that of the famous foreign painter Van Gogh. I showed it to Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi thought Du Fu's poems were incredible, so they praised Du Fu and his poems. After he set the tone, many people and later people began to redefine Du Fu and his poems. Even in a certain period of time, the people thought that Du Fu's talent was much higher than Li Bai's, which achieved a counterattack.