Du Fu

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.

Du Fu
There are no contemporaneous portraits of Du Fu; this is a later artist's impression.
Born	712 Gongyi, Henan, China
Died	770 (aged 57–58) Tanzhou, Hunan, China
Occupation	Poet
Children	Du Zongwen Du Zongwu Du Feng'er
Relatives	Du Shenyan (grandfather) Du Xian (father)
Du Fu "Du Fu" in Chinese characters Chinese 杜甫 Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Dù Fǔ - Wade–Giles Tu4 Fu3 - IPA [tû fù] - Gwoyeu Romatzyh Duh Fuu Min - Hokkien POJ Tō͘ Hú - Taiwanese Romanization Tōo Hú Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping Dou6 Fu2 - IPA [tòu fǔː] - Yale Romanization Douh Fú Middle Chinese - Middle Chinese /duoX pɨoX/ Zimei Chinese 子美 Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zǐmeǐ Shaoling Yelao Chinese 少陵野老 Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Shàolíng Yělǎo

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Du (Tu).

Du Fu Media

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  Dufuschina

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  The statue in his Thatched Cottage, Chengdu, China

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  A calligraphic copy of Du Fu's poem "Zui Ge Xing" by Dong Qichang

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  Part of Du Fu's poem "On Visiting the Temple of Laozi", as written by Dong Qichang

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

References

• Chou, Eva Shan; (1995). Reconsidering Tu Fu: Literary Greatness and Cultural Context. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44039-4.
• Hung, William; (1952). Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-7581-4322-2.