His poetry is a mirror of the times, which truly reflects the suffering years in the transition period from prosperity to decline in feudal society, with profound content and gloomy style. From the expressive object of poetry to artistic methods, from genre to rhetoric, it inherits and develops the heritage of predecessors in an all-round way, and is a master in the history of classical poetry. At the same time, his groundbreaking creation not only marked a major turning point in the content and style of Tang poetry, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of poetry from the middle Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.
1. Du Fu's life was as bumpy as the fate of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. Born in sorrow, he still shows great concern for the country, the people and the world, which makes future generations respect and admire him more as a "poet saint".
2. Du Fu, who grew up in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, had great ambition to help the world with the things of the world when he was young, hoping to realize the ideal of Confucianism and be good for the world. His poems sometimes show his ambition, such as "once you climb to the top of the mountain, you will see that all the other mountains are short under the sky." In his early works. In a word, it can be seen that it demands itself with the ambition of a saint. Unfortunately, the times did not allow him to show "Yao and Shun to the monarch, and then make the customs pure." "Ambition.
Du Fu came to Chang 'an to show his ambition, but he failed to get an official position many times. This stay is ten years. During the five to fourteen years in Tianbao, he saw through the corruption of officials and deeply tasted the sufferings of ordinary people. He wrote two famous satirical articles for the Road, and the Military Vehicle Shop, which described the horrors of years of war. From personal suffering to people's suffering, but also anxious about the future of the country. The realistic scene of the society before the Anshi Rebellion is fully reflected in the sentence "The wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and the bones on the road freeze to death".