There are countless poems written by Du Fu in his life, but about 1,5 poems have been preserved, most of which are collected in Du Gongbu Collection.
Introduction to Du Fu
Du Fu (712-77), with beautiful words, was born in Gongxian County, Henan Province (now gongyi city, Zhengzhou, Henan Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and was called "Li Du" together with Li Bai. In order to distinguish Li Shangyin and Du Mu from "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Great Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du". Du Fu's influence on China's classical poetry is far-reaching, and he is called "the sage of poetry" by later generations, and his poems are called "the history of poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Caotang. The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent governance, and he has the grand ambition of "to make the monarch Yao and Shun superior, and then to make the customs pure". Although Du Fu's fame was not prominent when he was alive, his fame spread far and wide, which had a far-reaching impact on China literature and Japanese literature. About 15 poems of Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected in Du Gongbu Collection.
Du Fu's poetic achievements
Rhyme plays an extremely important role in Du Fu's poems. The achievement of Du Fu's metrical poems lies in expanding the scope of expression of metrical poems. He not only writes about entertainment, nostalgia, travel, banquets and landscapes with regular poems, but also writes about current events with regular poems. It is more difficult to write current affairs with metrical poems, but Du Fu can use them freely. Du Fu wrote the metrical poems freely and freely, doing everything he could to change, conforming to the law without seeing the shackles of the vocal law, and neatly opposing without seeing the traces of the antithesis. For example, Ascending the High, which Yang Lun called "Du Ji's Seven-character Law First", is such a poem: "in a sharp gale from the wide sky apes are whimpering, birds are flying homeward over the clear lake and white sand. The endless trees rustle the fallen leaves, the Yangtze river is not expected to roll in the Pentium. Sad to Li autumn scenery, the perennial wanderer, life in the disease ridden today alone on the high platform. Ill fortune has laid a bitter frost on my temples, heart-ache and weariness are a thick dust in my wine. " The whole poem is also very precise and elegant in tonal sentence patterns. All eight sentences are right, and so is the first sentence. The strict antithesis is covered up by the fluidity of the image, and the strictness becomes sparse.
The highest achievement of Du Fu's metrical poems can be said to be that this style is written in a muddy and fluent way, and there is no trace to be found. If it is written carelessly, people will forget that it is a metrical poem. Such as "Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night": "Good rain knows the season, when spring happens. Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently. The wild trails and clouds are all black, and the rivers and boats are only bright. If you look at the red and wet places, the flowers will be heavy in Jinguan City. " The last four sentences use flowing water pairs to write down the charm of spring rain in one breath, which comes unexpectedly and silently, and at the end, writes a surprise that suddenly looks back, with rigorous and seamless rules.