"Poetry"
Du Fu (712-770), also known as Zimei, also known as Shaoling Yelao, was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty. Together with Li Bai, he is known as " Li Du". Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he later moved to Gong County, Henan Province. In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".
The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent government. He has the grand ambition of "bringing the kings to Yao and Shun, and then making the customs pure." Although Du Fu was not well-known during his lifetime, he later became famous and had a profound impact on both Chinese and Japanese literature. About 1,500 poems by Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected in "Du Gongbu Collection".
In the winter of the fifth year of the Dali calendar (770), Du Fu died of illness at the age of fifty-nine. Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Thatched Cottage.
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Du Fu was studious since he was a child and could compose poems at the age of seven. Chun". When he was five or six years old, he saw the dancer Gongsun's sword dance in Yancheng, Henan; later, he heard Li Guinian's dance at the residence of King Qi Li Fan in Shangshanfang, Luoyang, and in front of Cui Ditang, the favorite of Xuanzong in Zunhua. singing.
In the Temple of Emperor Xuanyuan on the top of Beimang Mountain in Luoyang, he admired the five sages and the ranks of thousands of officials painted by the painter Wu Daozi, which was reflected in his subsequent poetry creation. At that time, social celebrities Cui Shang and Wei Qixin saw the poems and poems he had written and praised him for his style of bangu and Yangxiong. Elders such as Li Yong and Wang Han also deigned to visit him.
According to Du Fu's life trajectory, as well as his family and his own conditions, he will definitely have a successful career and gain both fame and fortune.
However, Du Fu's "Phoenix" was still naughty when he was fifteen years old. He recalled his original behavior in "The Collection of Baiyou": "Recalling the fifteenth year of the year, my heart is still a child, and I am as strong as a yellow calf walking back. In August, pears and jujubes are ripe in front of the court, and I can climb a tree a thousand times in one day."
He and his family regarded him as a child, and did not visit celebrities in the capital or visit famous teachers to pave the way for his future career like Wang Wei and others. From the age of nineteen to twenty-three, Du Fu only did one thing - travel.