Realistic Features of Du Fu's Poems and Its Influence

Du Fu, a great realistic poet, was a superstar in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This poet, who cares about the country and the people all his life and abides by the Confucian tradition, turns his personal personality into a broad social life with his most conscious and deepest social consciousness, and combines self-pity and self-pity for his own destiny with great sorrow and pain for social life with his cry from the extreme nature. With dignified poems and the singing of blood and tears, it depicts the difficult social picture in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It truly and profoundly reflects all kinds of sharp and complicated social contradictions and the disastrous life of the broad masses of people, as well as their broad feelings of compassion for others and patriotism. It has created a "poetic history" with numerous social contents, distinctive characteristics of the times, strong political inclination, charity and depression. The realistic spirit of his poems has far-reaching value.

The realistic spirit of Du Fu's poems comes from his highly mature realistic creation method, which is mainly reflected in the narrative poems with a large number and high quality.

First, Du Fu is good at selecting people and things with typical significance, making artistic generalizations, shaping numerous characters and painting a broad picture of social life. The old man who fled over the wall, the old woman and Yang who served in the emergency river, the man who was recruited in Xin 'an, the bride who got married in the morning, the homeless single man, the old maid who paid money in Kuizhou, Zhuge Liang who tried his best, Tian Fu who advised drinking diligently, and the incompetent minister … formed a portrait gallery. Vivid and vivid images with so many typical meanings are outstanding contributions of Du Fu's poems.

Secondly, Du Fu is good at integrating subjective thoughts and feelings into the description of objective facts, so that the characters can speak with facts themselves, which is naturally touching. The author finds problems from reality.