Why is it said that Du Fu's Seven Rules is "the first of the Seven Rules in Ancient and Modern Times"?

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He systematically summarized almost all the achievements created by predecessors in poetry and made With an extremely successful creative fusion, he is a master of ancient Chinese poetry and modern poetry. Coupled with his turbulent life and endless feelings of family and country, his poetry is outstanding in terms of word use, rhythm, emotion, depth of thought, artistry and realm. It has achieved an almost perfect integration, with broad genres and profound thoughts, fully expanding the expressiveness and content of poetry to the extreme.

When people of later generations learn and create modern poetry, they generally regard Du Fu as their first teacher, either to elaborate and deepen a certain field or genre, or to learn some of his styles and advantages. , but those that can reproduce this comprehensiveness and overall reflect another level of poetic expression, there are many successful works in a specific poem or article, but overall, they have not reached the level of Du Fu.

It is precisely for this reason that poetry has reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. This is a limitation of poetry, an art form that is too restricted by meter, because all content and artistic attempts have been So the historical mission of poetry was basically completed in the Tang Dynasty. Next, the protagonists on the Chinese literary stage were Song lyrics, Yuan operas, and Ming and Qing novels. They gradually moved away from rhythm and moved towards popular language, all of which were of a kind. An ever-expanding range of literary styles.

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