1. Du Fu, whose courtesy name is Zimei and who calls himself Shaoling Yelao, is a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty. Together with Li Bai, he is known as "Li Du". In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".
2. Du Fu has the ambition to help the world and become famous, and is eager to make contributions. Du Fu's ideals and ambitions are based on a strong sense of social responsibility and a sense of urgency.
3. Du Fu was born in a bureaucratic family with a long tradition of "serving Confucianism and guarding officials" for generations. The family gave Du Fu an orthodox Confucian cultural upbringing and the ambition to make a difference in his official career. Therefore, Du Fu said that being an official was his family's "professional career" - a profession inherited from generation to generation. His various cultural upbringings and subsequent behaviors were all related to the pursuit of official career and the conduct of officials.
4. Du Fu is not only famous in China, but also famous overseas. In 1481, South Korea translated Du's poems into Korean and called it "Explanation of Du's Poems and Proverbs". His influence on Japanese literature was relatively late, and until the seventeenth century he was as famous in Japan as he was in China. Du Fu had a particularly profound influence on Matsuo Basho. Du Fu is also the favorite author of American writer Rex Ross.
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In July 759, Du Fu abandoned his official position and arrived in Chengdu at the end of the year. He built a thatched cottage in the western suburbs of Chengdu and began his last period of "wandering in the southwest." " life. During the eleven years of wandering, he often lived a life like "everyone else".
He loved to interact with the working people, but hated the bureaucrats, so he said: "I don't like to go to the state capital, because I am afraid that people will think I am honest. Even when I returned to Maoyu, I was never angry when I left." Du Fu's life It was still very difficult. In the year of his death, he suffered from hunger for five days because he was avoiding Zangjie's rebellion. What is valuable is that no matter how hard his life is or where he wanders, he is always concerned about the safety of the country and the suffering of the people.
At the same time, he never forgot or relaxed his creation. During the eleven years of wandering, he wrote more than a thousand poems. "Song of Thatched Cottage Broken by the Autumn Wind", "Wearing that the Government Army Takes Henan and Hebei", "Showing Wu Lang Again", "Drinking with Mud by Tian's Father", "Generals", "Autumn Rising", "Suiyan Xing" and so on. It is the best work of this period. Different from the previous period, it has a more lyrical nature and the forms are more diverse.
What is particularly noteworthy is the creative endowment of the seven-character rhyme poem with significant political and social content. Du Fu wandered in Sichuan for eight or nine years, and in Hubei and Hunan for two or three years. In the winter of 770, he died on a broken ship from Changsha to Yueyang. "The blood of the war still flows, and the sound of the military continues to this day." This was his last memory for the country and the people.
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