Du Fu does not belong to any poetic genre, because genre is not equal to style, so it cannot be simply classified as "realism", which is incorrect in itself. Now Du Fu's position is more "the representative poet of realistic poetry". In addition, Du Fu is the "one ancestor" of the later Jiangxi Poetry School, but the Jiangxi Poetry School only takes Du Fu as the Sect, and Du Fu is not among this school.
Du Fu (7 12 February 12? [1] ~ 770), with beautiful words, is a great realistic poet in Tang Dynasty, and is also called "Du Li" with Li Bai. Born in Gongxian County, Henan Province, his ancestral home is Xiangyang, Hubei Province. In order to distinguish Li Shangyin, Du Mu and Xiao Du Li, Du Fu and Li Bai are also called Da Du Li, and Du Fu is often called Lao Du.
Du Fu's main achievements:
1, poetic achievements:
Du Fu's poems are called "the history of poetry" because of his gloomy poetic style and his concern for the country and the people in his middle age. His poems are good at antique and rhythmic poems, and have various styles. He accurately summed up his work style with the words "depressed and frustrated", mainly focusing 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. His poems recorded the historical changes from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they were called "the history of poetry". Du Fu's poems received extensive attention after the Song Dynasty. Wang Yucheng, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Lu You and others highly praised Du Fu. Textual research data for nearly a thousand years, the wind of governing Du Fu has been endless.
There are many works about the chronology, classification and annotation of Du Fu's poems in Song Dynasty, such as Wang Zhu's Du Gongbu Collection, Guo Zhida's Nine Du Fu Collections, Lu He and Cai Mengbi's Poems in Du Gongbu Caotang, etc. Among them, the two banks of the Yellow River were recovered by the imperial army, Wang Chun and Wang Yue are the works.
2, calligraphy achievements:
Du Fu's view of calligraphy creation is very mature and profound. According to records, his calligraphy style is a combination of cursive script and cursive script, taking heart as a whole, advocating simple and magnificent style, and paying attention to speed, rhythm, brushwork and ink method when writing. He was also a very profound calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, his praise of the official calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty and his evaluation of Cao Ba and Zhang Xu were enough to make him famous in the history of calligraphy. His theory of "calligraphy is expensive but thin and hard" laid an important position for Du Fu in the history of calligraphy theory.