Brief introduction of du fu
Du Fu (7 12 February 12 ~ 770), with beautiful words, is a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and is also called "Du Li" with Li Bai. Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he moved to Gongxian County, Henan Province. In order to distinguish Li Shangyin, Du Mu and Xiao Du Li, Du Fu and Li Bai are also called Da Du Li, and Du Fu is often called Lao Du.
Second, Du Fu's life
Du Fu's distant ancestors were Du Zhou, a famous cruel official in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and his grandfather Du. Du Fu and Du Mu, another great poet in the Tang Dynasty, were both great scholars and celebrities in the Jin Dynasty, but the two tribes were far apart. His ancestral home was Xiangyang (now Hubei), and his great-grandfather Du was ordered by Gongxian, whose former residence was Gongxian (now Henan).
Du Fu comes from Du Yu's second son Du Dan, and Du Mu comes from Du Yu's youngest son Du Yin. Du Fu was born in Gong County, Tang Ruizong, on the first day of the first lunar month (7 12 February 12). Mother Cui Shi died when Du Fu was young. The Cui family is also a prestigious aristocratic family. He has met his uncle and cousin many times in his life.
Du fu's achievements
First, the achievements of calligraphy
Du Fu's view of calligraphy creation is very mature and profound. According to records, his calligraphy style is a combination of cursive script and cursive script, taking heart as a whole, advocating simple and magnificent style, and paying attention to speed, rhythm, brushwork and ink method when writing. He was also a very profound calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, his praise of the official calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty and his evaluation of Cao Ba and Zhang Xu were enough to make him famous in the history of calligraphy. His theory of "calligraphy is expensive but thin and hard" laid an important position for Du Fu in the history of calligraphy theory.
Second, the status of poetry
Yang Lun said: "Since the Six Dynasties, Yuefu imitated plagiarism, and Chen Xiangyin was the most disgusting. When Zi Mei came out, she felt what she felt at that time. When she went to Benjamin, she was in trouble. The people there were very poor. She asked questions at random, trying to get rid of the stereotypes of her predecessors.
Du Fu's middle-aged poems are called "the history of poetry" because of his gloomy poetic style and feelings of worrying about the country and the people. His poems are good at antique and rhythmic poems, and have various styles. He accurately summed up his work style with the words "depressed and frustrated", mainly focusing on depression.
Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems involve social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time. His poems recorded the historical changes of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they were called "the history of poetry".