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Du Fu (7 12 February 12? ~ 770), with beautiful words, is called Shaoling Yelao, a great realistic poet in Tang Dynasty, and is also called "Du Li" with Li Bai. Born in Gongxian County, Henan Province, his ancestral home is Xiangyang, Hubei Province. In order to distinguish Li Shangyin, Du Mu and Xiao Du Li, Du Fu and Li Bai are also called Da Du Li, and Du Fu is often called Lao Du. ?

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.

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.

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". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Caotang.