Since the late Tianbao period, Du Fu has created a large number of poems on current affairs. Short stories such as Wash Horse, Love, Second Way, Three Jueju, Sick Orange and Autumn Wind Breaking the Cottage appear as Wu Lang, while novels such as Kuizhou Shuhuai, Wangzai, Cottage and Mourning are all individuals with different contents. There are abundant war poems in Du Fu's poems. Du Fu has different attitudes towards different kinds of wars. Those who oppose the imperial court's belligerence and consume national strength are "Garage Shop" and "Going to the Foot of the Backyard". Two poems, Watching An Xi Soldiers Go to Guanzhong and Stand by, Watching Soldiers and The Year of National subjugation, supported the suppression of rebellion and resistance to foreign aggression. In "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", the poet sympathizes with the people's sufferings and hates barbaric Latin. However, at present, the enemy is short of soldiers and can only comfort the conscripts with tears, which shows the sharp and complicated contradictions and conflicts in the author's heart. Du Fu has many poems praising nature. The object of singing is often related to both oneself and current affairs, and it is a blend of situation and current affairs. The most representative ones are Spring Hope and Sword Gate.
Du Fu also has some poems praising painting, music, architecture, dance, utensils and agricultural production, which also focus on the author's feelings and have the characteristics of the times. There are also some poems in Du Ji, which are not strong in the flavor of the times and indifferent in personal feelings, especially some poems written in Chengdu Caotang, which show his state of mind after a long-term wandering and temporary rest. In his poems, such as Screen Trace, For Agriculture, Tian She, Xu Bu, Water Threshold, Later Travel, and Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night, the poet expressed his meticulous observation, infinite love and profound experience of flowers, trees, birds, animals, fish and insects, which reflected the other side of Du Fu's poetry and life. Du Fu's poems about missing relatives and friends are mostly sentimental and spoony. For example, Moonlit Night and Moonlit Night Remembering Brothers. Among many poems about loving friends, the poem about commemorating Li Bai is the most prominent, which shows his admiration and friendship for Li Bai. Du Fu also commented on poetry, and expressed his artistic thoughts of "benefiting from many teachers" and "tailoring for the body" in "Play is six quatrains", "Occasionally Topic" and "Twelve Poems for Relieving boredom" (the fourth to the eighth), abandoning the past and the present and casting macro words.
Du Fu's poetry system is diverse, learning from others' strengths and eclectic, which can bring forth the old and bring forth the new. His five-character ancient poems are extensive and profound, which opened up a new realm of the five ancient dynasties in the Tang Dynasty. Representative works include From Beijing to Fengxian, 500 Words of Mourning, Northern Expedition, Qiang Village, Give Eight Guards, Three Officials and Three Farewells. Seven-character ancient poems are good at stating opinions, bold and gloomy, and have strange styles, such as "Drunk Songs for Zheng Guangwen", "Washing Horses", "Autumn Wind Breaking the Cottage" and "Sui Yanxing". His five-character poems and seven-character poems are very skillful, and his five-sentence poems, such as Wang Chun vs. Li Bai at the End of the Sky, My Later Friends, Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night, Water Threshold, Going Abroad One Night and Climbing Yueyang Tower, are all excellent. Shu Xiang, Ye Lao, and the imperial army recovered the seven laws of the Yellow River, Su Fu, Bai Di, Five Generals, Autumn Prosperity, Ascending the Mountain and other eight poems, which were rarely matched by later generations. In addition, his quatrains are lyrical, reflecting current events and making a difference.
Du Fu lived under the rule of three emperors, namely Xuanzong, Tang Suzong and Tang Daizong, and it was also a turbulent period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. Du Fu's great realistic poetry is a true record of social life in this period, which has high historical value, so people call Du Fu's poetry "poetic history" and Du Fu "poetic saint". Du Fu's poems, with their profound contents, sincere and rich feelings and artistic innovation and development, have exerted a wide influence on later generations. Few people dig Du Like House in all directions, and almost every angle has dug up rich mines, reaching its peak. Du Fu, a poet, was down and out all his life. "Singing for a hundred years, no confidant", but after his death, he was greatly praised by Han Yu, Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi and others. After the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Lu You and others paid more attention to Du Fu, and Wen Tianxiang regarded Du Fu's poems as a spiritual force to stick to national integrity.
Du Fu, revered by later generations as a "poet saint", set an immortal model for China's humanistic spirit and set the highest standard for China's poetic art.