1. Thought: Many of Li Bai's poems show the idea of pursuing immortality and enjoying life in time; Many of Du Fu's poems show the thoughts of worrying about the world and caring for others. So Li Bai is called "Poet Fairy" and Du Fu is called "Poet Saint".
2. Style: Li Bai often uses exaggerated techniques and vivid metaphors to express his warm feelings; Du Fu often shows his deep sympathy for social reality with vigorous skills and profound thoughts. Li Bai tends to be romantic, while Du Fu tends to be realistic.
3. Excellent genre: Both of them can write poems of various genres, but Li Bai's seven-character poems and quatrains are the best, and Du Fu's metrical poems are the best.
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The characteristics of Tang poetry:
1. The most remarkable literary achievement of the Tang Dynasty can be described by Tang poetry. Since Chen Ziang and the "four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty", famous poets in the Tang Dynasty have emerged one after another. Li Bai, Du Fu, Cen Can and Wang Wei in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li He, Han Yu, Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi in the middle Tang Dynasty, and Li Shangyin and Du Mu in the late Tang Dynasty.
2. Their poems have different styles, including rich imagination of the mythical world and vivid description of real life, including passionate frontier poems, gloomy and heavy "poetic history" and fresh and refined pastoral poems.
3. These poems are isomorphic and become outstanding representatives of China ancient literature. Although there were still outstanding poets in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the overall level of regular poetry and classical poetry was not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty, which made Tang poetry an insurmountable peak of classical poetry in China.
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