His poems are characterized by ancient style and rhythm, and have various styles. His own style is accurately summed up by the words "depressed and frustrated", but mainly depressed. Du Fu lived in the historical period of Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and his poems mostly involved social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time, recorded the historical changes from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of love and compassion.
Du Fu is good at using many systems of classical poetry and creatively developing them. He is the pioneer of the new Yuefu poetry style. His Yuefu poems contributed to the development of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty. His 1957 novel, which is also a history of poetry, begins to narrate and focuses on the whole story, marking the high achievement of China's poetic art. Du Fu also showed extraordinary creativity in the 1957 law, and accumulated information on temperament, antithesis and poetry.