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Du Fu
Born 712
Died 770
Dan Tu
Occupation Poet
Nationality Chinese
Period Tang dynasty
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Du (Tu).

Du Fu (Chinese: 杜甫; pinyin: Dù Fǔ; 712-770 AD) was a Chinese realistic poet. He was also called Zi Mei. Du Fu is often regarded, along with Li Bai and Wang Wei, as one of the three greatest poets in China's literary history. He has been called Poet-Historian and the Poet-Sage by Chinese critics. Today we know about 1,400 of his poems. His poetry describes human suffering that he had witnessed throughout his life. It also reflected on the troubled times during the Tang Dynasty. In 755 he was forced to flee his home and was separated from his family for a year.

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Images for kids

  • Sparse room with a wooden bench and writing desk

    Study area in the reconstructed thatched cottage of Du Fu

  • Map of eastern interior Chinese cities of Luoyang, Chang'an, Qinzhou, Chengdu, Kuizhou, and Tanzhou

    Du Fu's China

  • DuFuStatue2

    The statue in his Thatched Cottage, Chengdu, China

  • Manuscript with three vertical lines of Chinese characters and the calligrapher's seal

    Part of Du Fu's poem "On Visiting the Temple of Laozi", as written by a 16th-century calligrapher

  • Dusieonhae

    A Korean translated book of Du Fu's poems, 1481


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