Du Fu (712-770 AD), Han nationality, was born in Gong County, Henan Province (now Gongyi City). Zi Zimei, who calls himself Shaoling Yelao, Du Shaoling, Du Gongbu, etc., is a great poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, known as the "Sage of Poetry" in the world, a realist poet, known as Du Gongbu and Du Shiyi in the world, and his representative work is "Three Officials" ("Xin'an"). Officials", "Shihao Officials", "Tongguan Officials") and "Three Farewells" ("Newlywed Farewell", "Elderly Farewell" and "Homeless Farewell"). Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei, born in Gong County, Henan. The grandson of Du Shenyi, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, official Zuo collected the artifacts. After he entered Shu, his friend Yan Wu recommended him to be a staff officer of Jiannan Jiedu Mansion and a member of the school's Ministry of Industry. Therefore, later generations also called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu. He was concerned about the country and the people, and had a noble personality. He wrote more than 1,500 poems in his life, and his poetic skills were exquisite. He was honored as the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations.
Du Fu and Li Bai are collectively known as "Li Du"[1]. In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, who are "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du". Du Fu Also often called "Lao Du". 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 20th grandson of Du Yu). Although Du Fu was not known to the world at that time, after later research, his works eventually had a profound impact on Chinese literature and Japanese literature [2]. About 1,500 of his poems have been preserved, and the collection of his works is "Du Gongbu Collection". His influence in Chinese classical poetry is very profound, and he is called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems are also called the "History of Poetry" [3]. The core of Du Fu's thought is Confucianism. He had the grand ambition to "serve the emperors Yao and Shun, and then make customs pure". He loves life, loves the people, and loves the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. He hates evil and criticizes and exposes corruption in the court and dark phenomena in social life. Read and travel before the age of thirty-five. When he arrived in Chang'an during the Tianbao period, he had no way to enter the officialdom. After ten years of hardship, he got a small position as a right guard and led the governor of the government to join the army. When the Anshi Rebellion began, he went into exile and was captured by the rebels. After escaping from danger, he was appointed as Zuo Shiyi. In the second year of Qianyuan (759), he abandoned his official position and traveled westward, finally arriving in Sichuan and settling in Chengdu. For a time, he served as Yan Wumu, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedushi, as a member of the School Inspection and Engineering Department, Wailang, so he was also known as the Du Gongbu. In his later years, his family moved eastward, staying in Kuizhou for two years before leaving the Xiaxia. He wandered around Hubei and Hunan and died of poverty and illness. Du Fu is a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty of my country and a world cultural celebrity. Du Fu once served as a member of Zuo Shiyi and the Ministry of Inspection and Engineering, so later generations called him Du Gongbu. He is good at ancient style and rhythmic poetry, and has various styles. The four words "depressed and frustrated" accurately summarize his own work style, and he is mainly depressed. Du Fu lived during the historical period when the Tang Dynasty was transitioning from prosperity to decline. His poems mostly dealt with social unrest, political darkness, and people's suffering. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's suffering at that time, so they were known as the "history of poetry." Du Fu was concerned about the country and the people, with noble personality and exquisite poetic skills. Du Fu wrote more than 1,500 poems in his life, many of which are famous poems that have been passed down through the ages, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", and "Du Gongbu Collection" has been handed down to the world; among them, "Three Officials" is "Shi Hao" Officials", "Xin'an Officials" and "Tongguan Officials", the "three farewells" are "Newlywed Farewell", "Homeless Farewell" and "Elderly Farewell". Du Fu's poems have the largest and most widespread circulation among Tang poems. He is one of the most outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty and has a profound 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 20th grandson of Du Yu). Du Fu's distant ancestor is Du Yu, who was famous in the Jin Dynasty. Great-grandfather Du Yiyi once served as Gong Ling. His grandfather was Du Shenyan, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, and he had his own autobiography. His father, Du Xian, held the position of Fengtian. In his youth, Du Fu traveled to today's Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, and Shandong areas, and met Li Bai twice. The two formed a profound friendship.
Du Fu is good at using many systems of classical poetry and developing them creatively. He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu style of poetry. His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the New Yuefu Movement in the mid-Tang Dynasty. His May 7 ancient novel is both poetry and history. It unfolds the narrative, but also focuses on the convolution of the entire article, marking a high achievement in the art of poetry in my country. Du Fu also showed significant creativity in the Five and Seven Rhythms, and accumulated complete artistic experience in rhythm, antithesis, word and sentence refining, etc., bringing this genre to a fully mature stage. There is "Du Gongbu Collection" handed down from generation to generation.