Du Fu and Li Bai are called "Du Li". In order to distinguish Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Du Li", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Big Du Li", and Du Fu is usually called "Old Du".
Extended information about Du Fu's artistic achievements in poetry.
First, it embodies a high generalization of life and clearly expresses emotions. Poets are good at choosing people or things with typical significance, summarizing them artistically, reflecting colorful real life, revealing the essence of life and expressing the poet's distinct love and hate. Such as Military Vehicle Shop, Three Officials, Three Farewells, Three Poems of Qiang Village, and Five Hundred Words from Beijing to Fengxian County.
Second, describing things is true and delicate. Describing the objective reality truly and concretely is an important artistic feature of Du Fu's poems, especially narrative poems. For example, in the "Northern Expedition", the description of the situation of seeing children living in poverty after returning home; In farewell to the old, the description of the old couple's infinite sad psychological state.
Third, the subjective tendency is in the objective narrative. Poets are good at integrating subjective thoughts and feelings into the description of objective facts, so that characters can speak with facts themselves.
For example, The Digger is a poem that exposes the brutality of officials and reflects the suffering of the people. The first four sentences write the scene of "officials arresting people at night"; In the middle 16 sentences, write the scene of the county magistrate roaring and the old woman crying; The last four sentences, write the end of the old woman being taken away and the daughter-in-law sobbing and saying goodbye to the old man.
Fourth, highly concise and colorful language. Du Fu's poems are extremely successful in language application, which is the result of the poet's reference to ancient poets and folk languages, as well as the result of genius's creation and hard training. The main features of Du Fu's poems are broad, concise, accurate, gorgeous, popular and natural.
The popularity and naturalness of Du Fu's poems mainly means that Du Fu makes good use of common sayings. In addition, the poet also makes good use of some elegant and beautiful languages to vividly write the modality of things, such as "dancing butterflies are lingering and playing, dancing Yingying is singing charmingly".
Fifth, Du Fu's poems have perfected various poetic styles. Du Fu's poems have many styles, almost every style has famous works. Due to his application and creative efforts, various poetic styles developed in the middle of his creation. For example, Yuefu poems have developed from using ancient themes to writing famous articles (such as "Car Shop" and "Sad Chen Tao").