A brief introduction to the poet Du Fu, a brief introduction to the ancient poet Du Fu

Du Fu: (712 770) Du Fu's character is too beautiful, Han nationality, a native of Hegong County in the Tang Dynasty, self-named Shaoling Ye Lao, Du Fu's influence in Chinese classical poetry is very far-reaching, and he is called "poet saint" by later generations.

Du Fu

A.D. 712--770), Han nationality, the word Zimei, ancestral home Xiangyang (now Xiangfan City, Hubei), and later moved to Gong County (now Gong County, Henan), known as Du Gongbu, Du Shizhi, Shaoling Ye Lao, is a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, a poet, a world cultural celebrity, and Li Bai is called "Li Du". Du Fu's distant ancestor was the famous Du Yu of the Jin Dynasty, and the ancestor was the poet Du Xianyan of the early Tang Dynasty, and Du Fu himself was born in Gongxian County, Henan Province (now Gongyi, Zhengzhou). Du Fu once served as a member of the Zuo Shizhi and the Inspection and School Engineering Department, so later generations called him Du Shizhi and Du Gong.

Du Fu lived in the historical period of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and his poems mostly involve social turmoil, political darkness, and people's suffering, and are known as the "history of poetry". Du Fu worries about the country and the people, has a noble personality and exquisite poetry, and is respected as a "poet saint" by later generations. Du Fu wrote more than 1,400 poems in his lifetime, many of which are famous poems that have been praised through the ages, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", and there is "Du Gongbu Collection" handed down; Among them, the "three officials" are "Stone Trench Officials", "Xin'an Officials" and "Tongguan Officials", and the "Three Farewells" are "Newlywed Farewell", "Homeless Farewell" and "Farewell to the Elderly".

Du Fu's poems had a profound impact on later generations.

Du Fu (712 770), whose name is Zimei, called himself Shaoling Yelao, Han nationality, was a native of Gongxian County (now Gongyi, Henan). Du Fu's great-grandfather (Du Xunyan's father) moved from Xiangyang (now Hubei) to Gongxian County. A great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty.

He worries about the country and the people, his personality is noble, his poems about 1,500 have been preserved, the poetry is exquisite, the influence in Chinese classical poetry is very far-reaching, highly respected, later poets have "the most Shang Du Gong Department of the heart of the people" ("Zai Jing Tang Collection"). Du Fu is revered as a "poet saint" by the world, and his poems are called "poetry history". Du Fu and Li Bai are collectively called "Li Du", in order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Big Li Du".

During the Kaiyuan Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, all aspects of society developed to its heyday, and this period was called the "Prosperous Tang Dynasty". In this thriving historical period, the literature of the Tang Dynasty, especially the poetry of the Tang Dynasty, developed to the highest peak in history, and a large number of outstanding poets and excellent works appeared on the poetry scene. In 712 A.D., a round of bright red rose on the poetry altar'The sun, this round of the sun's surname is Du, the name is Fu, and the word is beautiful.

Claiming to be Shaoling Ye Lao, he once served as a member of the inspection and engineering department, known as the Du Gong Department, and has the "Du Gong Department Collection". Du Fu was a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, and his poems not only pushed the creation of realist poetry to a new peak, but also represented the highest level of realist poetry in the history of ancient Chinese literature. His works extensively and profoundly reflected the social reality of the time, so they were called "poetry history", and it was precisely because Du Fu wrote poetry history that people called him "poetry saint".

There are more than 100 of his representative works, the most representative of which are the ancient style poems "Three Officials" ("Stone Trench Officials", "Tongguan Officials", "Xin'an Officials"), "Three Farewells" ("Farewell to the Newlyweds", "Farewell to the Elderly", "Farewell to the Homeless"), etc., he is also particularly good at the writing of poems and quatrains, and many of his works are famous through the ages.