The core of his thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent government. He has a great ambition of "making the monarch Yao and Shun superior first, and then making the customs pure". He hates evil and sympathizes with the people. He is a great realistic poet, who wrote more than 1400 poems in his life. He came from the tail of the prosperous Tang Dynasty with an unspeakable mission. Although, he is not the savior, nor is he the one to quell the war. However, he added great glory to the troubled times that he could not bear to look directly at.
2020 is the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet Du Fu (7 12-770) 1250. This year, when the global COVID-19 epidemic broke out and people were worried, the British National Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) released the documentary Du Fu: China's greatest poet on April 6th. It is as famous as Dante and Shakespeare, and it was introduced to the western world in the form of documentary for the first time.
Michael Wood, a senior BBC host, writer and historian, told the audience the story of Du Fu, the greatest poet in China. Ian McKellen, a British national treasure actor in the documentary, recited many English versions of Du Fu's poems, which left a deep impression on people.
Following the craze of 20 12 "Du Fu is Busy", our poet became famous in a foreign country for a period of time and touched the whole world, but this time it was no longer a spontaneous "spoof" by the people, but a professional documentary, which can be described as a slight recovery.
To this end, Xinhua News Agency launched a commentary on April 19, which was highly affirmed:
The broadcast of it (documentary) made people who were isolated from the epidemic and suffered from epidemic anxiety produce a * * * sound. The beauty of Du Fu's poems is full of comforting power. Du Fu was poor and wandering for half his life, but all he saw were sentient beings. Du Fu was born in the pluralistic and tolerant Tang Dynasty, and his compassion and care permeated into the region, culture and nation. He knows the joys and sorrows of the world, and he sympathizes with the fate of the people. Now, his poems and his heart have spread in the wider world and won many foreign bosom friends: "To heal our broken world and unite as one, please read Du Fu's poems, which is good for the world.
Subsequently, nine CCTV recording channels also broadcast BBC documentaries on June 1 1. At this point, Du Fu's "theory of human nature" was pushed to the peak again.
Looking back on 20 12, it coincides with the 300th anniversary of Du Fu's birth. The theme of "Du Fu is very busy" was once popular in an unexpected way. Professor Chen, president of the Tang Dynasty Literature Society and Fudan University, was interviewed by Oriental Morning Post, which is still enlightening today.
In Professor Chen's view, Du Fu is "a colorful poet in the history of China's poetry", and his poems contain his own country. Du Fu witnessed that the Tang Empire was destroyed by the Anshi Rebellion, and the country was in chaos, from prosperity to decline, and he himself was displaced and eventually died in a foreign land. His poems are on-the-spot records of current social events and national changes, records of people's sufferings, and personal temporary joys and sorrows. Professor Chen especially pointed out that Du Fu's image as a poet transcends "people's nature".
His poems are concerned about the country and the people, and describe the miserable life of the working people at the bottom, which makes people feel the same, and is known as "an artifact that makes people cry." Du Fu's poems have a great influence not only on China, but also on Japanese literature. However, Du Fu's life was also full of disasters. He is ambitious and hard to surpass. He has been wandering for almost half his life, living without a fixed place and eating without a fixed place. It can be said that the past of Du Fu's life is more sad than his poems.
Du Fu's life is not too long, only youth is not bad. In other periods, Du Fu's official career was not smooth, and he lived in poverty all his life, and spent almost most of his life wandering from place to place. Du Fu's poems are more painful because of the influence of circumstances. Du Fu lived in the declining period of the Tang Dynasty, and many poems described the social unrest at that time, the incompetence and corruption of the imperial court and the sufferings of the people at the bottom. His poems reflect the social phenomena at that time in many ways, and also vividly record the historical changes of the Tang Dynasty. They have a strong sense of hardship and are known as "the history of poetry".
Du Fu was not as famous as Li Bai when he was alive, but his influence on later generations was greater than Li Bai's.
Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin, the four most important poets in the second half of the Tang Dynasty, all studied Du Fu. In the Song Dynasty, Yu Wang, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Lu You and others admired Du Fu, and Jiangxi Poetry School with Du Fu as its ancestor appeared. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Gu and others also had an obvious tendency to learn from Du Fu. For nearly a thousand years, there has been a trend of exclusive respect for Du Fu. Some people commented that Du Fu was "the only poet with increasing influence in China".
Throughout the ages, many great literary and artistic works have been related to suffering. It is difficult for people with smooth life to have a comprehensive grasp of human nature, and it is also difficult to have a broad and compassionate mind. It can be said that the poet Du Fu is a vivid example. Although he lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he felt the bitterness brought by the huge gap between the rich and the poor. It also experienced the suffering of being displaced after the outbreak of the An Shi Rebellion. He combined his personal misfortune with his concern for the world and finally sublimated it into a touching poem.
When we open a book of Du Fu's poems, we can read the hardships of life, so as to cherish every inch of time and live with our hearts. When we open a book of Du Fu's poems, we can better understand the tenacity of life, and then face suffering calmly and open a flower in the narrowest gap. Nietzsche said: I love to write all literature with blood. Du Fu is like this, writing poems with his life. He was weather-beaten and hungry all his life, but he left the warmest inspiration to future generations.
A sensible friend told me that "Send Eight Guards to Chu Shi" is Du Fu's best poem in his mind.
Since childhood, how many people and things have passed by in a hurry, childhood playmates, classmates and friends, affectionate friends, or once: "You, my lover, were riding a bamboo horse, trotting around and throwing your childhood", or once: "Classmates * * * were reading, and Deng Qing Bookstore was full of love", but now "good friends are all in the distance, each in one place" Occasionally meet, but always "pain is always longer than joy."
Time, don't rush, I won't push what should come; Time, don't worry, you have to chase after you go far.
I think that an important sign of a person's old age may be that he didn't care when he first read it in his teens. Now, if he reads a poem by Du Like Fu, "To Eight Guards", he will feel the same, with tears in his eyes.
Spring flowers and autumn moon, winter snow and summer grass, a continuous autumn rain brought another autumn. More and more, I feel that those ancient poems that I memorized when I was a teenager bear the deep affection of the poet at the moment of creation. In our later life, the still water flows deeply, the grass snake grey line, the pulse is thousands of miles, until a certain moment later, it hits my heart directly, and time and space fold, which makes my soul pull away and makes me cry. ?