Confucianism is the core of his thoughts. He has the grand ambition of "to make the monarch Yao and Shun superior, and then to make the customs pure". He loves life, people and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. He hated evil, criticized and exposed the corruption of the imperial court and the dark phenomenon in social life. Read and travel before the age of thirty-five. During the Tianbao period, when he went to Chang 'an, he had no way to enter the army. After ten years of hardship, he won the small position of Youwei leading Cao to join the army. The Anshi Rebellion (An Lushan and Shi Siming) began, and he was in exile and was captured by the rebels. After getting out of danger, the official was given a left pick-up. In the second year of Ganyuan (759), he abandoned his official position and went west. Finally, he went to Sichuan and settled in Chengdu. At one time, he served as Yuan Wailang in the scene of Yanwu, our time in Jiannan, so he was also known as Du Gongbu. In his later years, his family moved eastward and stayed in Kuizhou for two years on the way, leaving the gorge. Wandering around Hubei and Hunan, he died of poverty and illness. Du Fu was a great realistic poet and world cultural celebrity in the Tang Dynasty. Du Fu used to be a foreign minister of Zuo Shiyi and proofreading department, so he was later called Du Gongbu. He is good at ancient style and rhythmic poetry, and his styles are diverse. He accurately summarizes his own work style with the word "depressed and frustrated", and mainly focuses on depression. 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, so they were known as "the history of poetry". Du Fu was concerned about the country and people, with noble personality and exquisite poetic skills. Du Fu wrote more than 1,5 poems in his life, many of which are famous works that have been praised through the ages, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", and Du Gongbu Collection has been handed down from generation to generation. Among them, the "Three Officials" are Shihao Officials, Xin 'an Officials and Tongguan Officials, and the "Three Farewells" are Newly Married, Homeless and Farewell to the Old. Du Fu's poems are the most widely circulated 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. Du Fu and Du Mu are distant relatives, and they are both descendants of Du Yu, the general who destroyed Sun Wu in the Jin Dynasty (Du Fu is the twentieth grandson of Du Yu). Du Fu's distant ancestor was Du Yu, who was famous in Jin Dynasty. Great-grandfather Du Yiyi once held the post of Gong Ling. Grandfather was a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, Du Shenyan, an official and a member of the Food Department, and had his own autobiography. Father Du Xian has the post of Fengtianling. In his youth, Du Fu traveled around Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei and Shandong, and met Li Bai twice, and they forged a profound friendship. Du Gong Temple
Du Fu is good at using many systems of classical poetry and creatively developing them. He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu poetry style. His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty. His "May 7th" ancient novel, which is also a history of poetry, begins to narrate and focuses on the whole story, marking the high achievement of Chinese poetry art.. Du Fu also showed remarkable creativity in the Five-Seven Rhythm, and accumulated complete artistic experience in temperament, antithesis, and refining words and sentences, which made this genre reach a fully mature stage.