Biography of the Saint Du Fu in Poems

Du Fu (February 12, 712 - 770), also known as Zimei and nicknamed Shaoling Yelao, was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home was Xiangyang (now part of Hubei Province) and he moved to Gong County (now southwest of Gongyi, Henan Province) during the time of his great-grandfather. Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was honored as the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". The core of Du Fu's thoughts is the thought of benevolent government. He has the grand ambition of "bringing the emperors Yao and Shun to the throne, and then making the customs pure." Although Du Fu was not well-known during his lifetime, he later became famous and had a profound impact on both Chinese and Japanese literature. This album tells the poet's unusual life in the order of Du Fu's life.