The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent government. Du Fu inherited the tenacious spirit of salvation and positive enthusiasm for politics from Confucianism. His political goal is to "respect the monarch Yao and Shun, and then make the customs pure". In particular, he carried forward the Confucian thought of caring for people and things, and showed deep concern for people's sufferings: "When you are poor, you worry about Li Yuan, and your intestines sigh with heat".
Du Fu's poetry creation is first full of realistic spirit of facing reality directly and profoundly revealing realistic contradictions and crises, which shows the great feelings of the poet who cares about the country and the people.
In the history of China literature, it is rare for Du Fu to associate his thoughts and feelings with the fate of the country and people all his life, with deep and persistent feelings, and to show them in a perfect artistic form. His noble thoughts and feelings, forged by exquisite artistic forms, have always nurtured people in later generations.
Family background:
Du Fu was born in Dujia, Jingzhao, and was a scholar-bureaucrat in the north. Its distant ancestors were Du Zhou, a famous cruel official 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. However, the two tribes are far apart. Du Fu comes from Du Yu's second son Du Dan, and Du Mu comes from Du Yu's youngest son Du Yin.
As a teenager, Du Fu lived a relatively stable and prosperous life because of his superior family environment. He has been eager to learn since he was a child. At the age of seven, he was able to write poems. "At the age of seven, I thought I was strong, and I sang the phoenix with my mouth open." He is interested in "making the monarch Yao and Shun, and then making the customs pure." When he was a teenager, he was also very naughty. "I remember when I was fifteen, I was a child, as healthy as a yellow calf." Pear and jujube are ripe in August before the court, and the tree day can return to a thousand times. "