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The author of "Selected Poems of Du Fu" is Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty with a courtesy name Zimei. His ancestral home is Xiangyang (now part of Hubei), and he was born in Gong County, Henan. Because he once lived in Shaoling in the south of Chang'an City, he was recommended by Yan Wu as Jiedu staff officer in Chengdu and a member of the Ministry of Inspection and Engineering; later generations called him Du Shaoling, Du Gongbu. Du Fu was born in a family with a "Confucianism and officialdom" and a literary tradition. He was the grandson of the famous poet Du Shenyan. He studied poetry at the age of 7 and became famous at the age of 15. After the age of 20, it can be divided into 4 periods. From Xuanzong's Kaiyuan 19th year (731) to Tianbao's fourth year (745), Du Fu lived a romantic life of "Qiu Ma Qing Kuang". He once roamed around Wuyue and Qi Zhao areas. During this period, he went to Luoyang to take the imperial examination and failed. In the third year of Tianbao's reign, he became close friends with Li Bai in Luoyang. They broke up the following autumn and never met again. There are more than 20 poems written by Du Fu in this period, most of which are Wulu and Wugu, represented by "Wang Yue".