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As a teenager, Du Fu traveled to wuyue and Zhao Qi successively, during which he also visited Luoyang. After thirty-five, I came first and last in Chang 'an. Later, he presented gifts to the emperor and presented them to the nobles. The frustration of officialdom witnessed the extravagance and social crisis of the upper class in the Tang Dynasty.
In the 14th year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tongguan fell, and Du Fu moved to many places. In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he fled the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the whole life and the affairs of the country. Du Fu wrote such famous works as Climbing to the Top and Looking at Spring, Northern Expedition, Three Officials and Three Farewells.
Although Du Fu is a realistic poet, he also has a wild and unruly side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroism and dry clouds from his masterpiece Song of Drinking Eight Immortals. He died in the winter of the fifth year of Dali (770) at the age of 59.
Du Fu's influence on China's classical poetry is far-reaching, and he is called "Poetic Sage" by later immortals, and his poems are called "Poetic History". The core of Du Fu's thought is benevolent government, and he has the great ambition of "making the monarch Yao and Shun superior and then making the customs pure". Although Du Fu was not famous during his lifetime, his fame spread far and wide, which had a far-reaching impact on China literature and Japanese literature. About 65,438+0,500 poems of Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected by Du Gongbu.
Du Fu's distant ancestors were Du Zhou, a famous cruel official in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and his grandfather Du. Du Fu and Du Mu, another great poet in the Tang Dynasty, were both great scholars and celebrities in the Jin Dynasty, but the two tribes were far apart. His ancestral home was Xiangyang (now Hubei), and his great-grandfather Du was ordered by Gongxian, whose former residence was Gongxian (now Henan).
Du Fu comes from Du Yu's second son Du Dan, and Du Mu comes from Du Yu's youngest son Du Yin. Du Fu was born in Gong County, Tang Ruizong, on the first day of the first lunar month (7 12 February 12). Mother Cui Shi died when Du Fu was young. The Cui family is also a prestigious aristocratic family. He has met his uncle and cousin many times in his life.