Du Fu, as an outstanding scholar in China, left behind many impassioned and eternal quatrains that worried about the country and the people, and his life was full of ups and downs and twists and turns. Du Fu was born in the Zhaodu clan in Nanjing, Hebei, a large clan in the north, his family background is brilliant, and his ancestors have been officials for generations, but this did not make it easy for him to get an official position. In stark contrast, Li Bai roamed freely among the rivers and lakes, and achieved a good story between a sword and a drink. Du Fu's life is like a desert of time, full of suffering. lost his wealth and children, even in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, he still "can't mix with an official and a half-job". This talented man, in the face of the prosperity of a wealthy family, chose to run for money, and finally ended up dying in a foreign country.
1. Talented but hasty life
Du Fu was born in the Zhaodu clan in Nanjing, Henan, a large clan in the Central Plains that can be traced back to the imperial history of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. His grandfather Du Xianyan was a direct bachelor of the Tang Dynasty Xiuwen Museum, and he was one of the founders of modern poetry in the Tang Dynasty. His father, Du Xian, also served as Sima of Yanzhou and served as the commander of Fengtian County, while his mother was born in the Cui family of Qinghe.
Under such a family background, Du Fu showed an amazing talent for poetry since he was a child, and was called a "prodigy". However, this wealthy family background and precocious talent have developed his indulgent and casual character. He did not like to study honestly, and at the age of 15 he was already a teenager wandering in the mountains, and at the age of 19 he began a five-year journey.
This is in stark contrast to when most young men worked hard for the imperial examination, but Du Fu chose to travel among the mountains, perhaps because success came too easily, making him dislike reading and prefer to pursue freedom and unrestrainedness.
2. Wandering and tossing, the Psalms show the current situation
Du Fu's travel career brought him to Fengxiang, Chengdu, Jiannan and other places. In Fengxiang, he was sheltered by Gao Xianzhi, the envoy of Jiedu, but due to Du Fu's straightforwardness and reluctance to flatter the powerful, he eventually left Fengxiang. In Chengdu, he was sheltered by Yan Wu, but he also angered Yan Wu because of his fierce words.
Eventually, he became a staff member under Cui Guangyuan, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, but he also lost his asylum because of his insistence on integrity. This series of displacements made him experience the ups and downs and bitterness of life, and this ups and downs have made his profound artistic creation.
In Du Fu's poems, he profoundly reflected the chaos of the society at that time and expressed his warm concern for the country and society. His spiritual monologues, such as "The Song of the Thatched House Broken by the Autumn Wind", are full of grief and indignation about the current situation.
3. The career is bumpy, and the poems are immortal
Du Fu has always been eager to gain fame through the imperial examination, but in the Xuanzong era, under the instigation of the powerful minister Li Linfu, he was named the "wild and unsparing sage", which made him miss the officialdom.
After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Du Fu left Chang'an, but missed his career again. Although he had pinned his hopes on Emperor Suzong's promotion, in the end he only got the idle position of Zuo Shiji. Even in the Jixian Academy, the highest institution of learning at that time, his career ended again because of chaos.
When Du Fu was 40 years old, he finally won the appreciation of Xuanzong with his masterpiece "The Three Great Gifts" and was appointed to the Jixian Academy, but the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion once again prevented him from fully displaying his talents.
Du Fu's life was full of ups and downs, but it was these ups and downs that made his poems pass down through the ages. Although he did not develop in the officialdom as he wished, he became a generation of poets with his outstanding poems, leaving an immortal literary heirloom.
Du Fu's life, like his poems, is full of twists and turns. He was displaced in the troubled times, like duckweed, and lost his career again and again. However, it is these twists and turns that have made his profound artistic creation, and his poetry is like a mirror, reflecting the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of that era.
Du Fu's poetry is not only a window to vent his personal encounters, but also his profound concern and reflection of the country and society. His poems are like history books, recording the changes of that era, and each of his poems is like a loud declaration, awakening people's memories of that era.
His poems have become literary treasures that have been passed down through the ages, and he himself has become an immortal star in the history of Chinese literature because of his upright and fearless character. His image, like his poems, is vivid, vivid, and moving, deeply imprinted in people's hearts.