Du fu's evaluation

With a heavy sense of responsibility for the fate of the country and the nation, Du Fu faithfully portrayed the face of the times and inner sorrow, and made his poems penetrate into real life and people. 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 object of expression of poetry to artistic methods, from genre to rhetoric, it has carried on the comprehensive inheritance and development of predecessors' heritage, and is a master of the past and the future 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.