Together with Li Bai, they are called "Du Li". In order to distinguish it from the other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, namely "Little Du Li", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Big Du Li".
A total of about 65,438+0,500 poems of Du Fu have been preserved, and their poetic skills are superb. They are highly respected in China's classical poems and have far-reaching influence.
In 759, Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. He lived in Chengdu from 759 to 766 and was commemorated by Du Fu's Caotang. Although he fled the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the whole life and the affairs of the country. The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent governance, and he has the great ambition of "obeying for the gentleman and then purifying the customs".
In the winter of the fifth year of Dali (770), Du Fu died on a boat from Tanzhou to Yueyang at the age of 59.
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Literary achievements
1, literary works
Du Fu's poem "There are Sixty Volumes" has long been lost. In the second year of Baoyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty (1039), Wang Zhu collected 1405 volumes and compiled them into 18 volumes, which was named "Du Gongbu Collection". Qian edited The Collection of Du Gongbu.
2. The status of poetry
Du Fu's middle-aged poems are called "the history of poetry" because of his gloomy poetic style and feelings of worrying about the country and the people. Many of them are well-known works, such as "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", among which "Three Officials" are Shi Haoguan, Xin 'an Official and Tongguan Official, and "Three Farewells" are newly married, homeless and resigned.
Du Fu's poems handed down from generation to generation are the most extensive in the Tang Dynasty, and he is one of the most outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations. Du Fu's works are known as the scars of the world and the sages in poetry. People's Suffering and Waves at the Bottom of the Pen are representative works of realistic poetry.
3. Poetry system
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 "May 7th" ancient novel, which is also a history of poetry, began to narrate and focus on the whole story, marking the high achievement of China's poetic art. ..
Du Fu also showed extraordinary creativity in the Five-Seven Laws, and accumulated complete artistic experience in melody, antithesis, and refining words and sentences, which made this genre reach a fully mature stage. Du Gongbu Collection has been handed down from generation to generation, and its works include Imperial Army Recovering the Banks of the Yellow River, Wang Chun, Jueju, Wang Yue and so on.
Calligraphy achievement
According to the records, his calligraphy style is both cursive and cursive, with his heart as a whole, appreciating the magnificence of Gu Zhuo, and paying attention to speed, rhythm, brushwork and ink method in his writing. At the same time, his praise of the official calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty and his evaluation of Cao Ba and Zhang Xu were enough to make him famous in the history of calligraphy. His theory of "calligraphy is expensive but thin and hard" laid an important position for Du Fu in the history of calligraphy theory.
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