Du Shaoling (杜少陵), Du Gongbu (杜工部), Du Pickup (杜拾遗), Du Cao Tang (杜草堂), Lao Du (老 杜) and Poetry Sage (诗圣).

Du Fu (712 - 770), the character Zimei, self-proclaimed Shaoling Ye Lao, the great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, together with Li Bai, known as "Li Du". He was originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, but later moved to Gong County, Henan Province. In order to distinguish himself from the other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, who were known as "Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai were also known as "Li Du", and Du Fu was often referred to as "Lao Du".

Du Fu died in the winter of 770, at the age of fifty-nine. Du Fu's influence in classical Chinese poetry was so far-reaching that he was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". He was also known as Du Shao-ling and Du Cao-tang (杜草堂).

Extended information:

Du Fu traveled to Wu-Yue and Qi-Zhao as a young man, and in the meantime, he was sent to Luoyang, but failed to pass the entrance examination. After the age of thirty-five, he first took the examination in Chang'an, but failed; later he offered gifts to the emperor, and made gifts to the nobles. He was not successful in his official career and witnessed the extravagance and social crisis of the upper class in the Tang Dynasty. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the Tongguan Pass was lost, and Du Fu moved from place to place.

In the second year of Qianyuan (759), Du Fu abandoned his post and went to Sichuan. Although he escaped the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the people and the country. He composed such masterpieces as "Ascending to the Heights," "Spring Hope," "Northern Expedition," "Three Officials," and "Three Farewells. Although Du Fu was a realist poet, he also had a wild and uninhibited side, and it is not difficult to see Du Fu's boldness from his masterpiece "Song of the Eight Immortals in the Drink".

Du Fu's ideology was centered on Confucianism's idea of benevolence and government, and he had a grand ambition to "make the customs simple again". Although Du Fu was not well known when he was alive, his reputation spread far and wide, and he had a profound influence on both Chinese and Japanese literature. Some 1,500 poems by Du Fu*** have been preserved, most of which are collected in the Du Gongfu ji (Collection of Du Gongfu).

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