Du Fu, with beautiful words, is a great realistic poet in Tang Dynasty, and is also called Du Li with Li Bai. Born in Gongxian County, Henan Province, his ancestral home is Xiangyang, Hubei Province. In order to distinguish them from the other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, Little Du Li, Du Fu and Li Bai are also called Big Du Li, and Du Fu is often called Old Du.
As a teenager, Du Fu traveled to wuyue and Zhao Qi successively, during which he also visited Luoyang. After thirty-five, I came first and last in Chang 'an. Later, he presented gifts to the emperor and presented them to the nobles. The frustration of officialdom witnessed the extravagance and social crisis of the upper class in the Tang Dynasty. Du Fu wrote such famous works as Climbing to the Top and Looking at Spring, Northern Expedition, Li San and Three Farewells. Although Du Fu is a realistic poet, he also has a wild and unruly side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroism and dry clouds from his masterpiece Song of Drinking Eight Immortals.
Du Fu's Poetic Achievements
Du Fu's middle age is called the history of poetry because of his gloomy poetic style and his 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 two words: frustration and frustration, but mainly frustration. Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and his poems mostly involved social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time, and recorded the historical changes from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty.
Du Fu wrote more than 1500 poems in his life, many of which are famous works that have been handed down through the ages, such as Three Officials and Three Farewells. Three of them are Shi Hao officials, Xin 'an officials and Tongguan officials, and the other three are newly married, homeless and resigned. Du Fu's poems handed down from generation to generation are the most extensive in the Tang Dynasty, and he is one of the most outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Du Fu