Du Fu
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Du Fu 🇨🇳

杜甫 (Du Shaoling / Shisheng)
["The Poet-Historian", "Tang Dynasty Master of Regulated Verse", "The Poet-Sage"]
Born Feb 12, 0712 🇨🇳 Gongyi (Henan), Tang Dynasty
Passed Away Nov 01, 0770 Tanzhou (Changsha, Hunan), Tang Dynasty
Lifespan 58 years old
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"The country is broken, but mountains and rivers remain; in the city, spring grass grows deep."

Archival Overview

Tang dynasty literary titan (712–770), honored as the 'Poet-Historian' and 'Poet-Sage' (Shisheng), whose profound verse chronicled the devastating An Lushan Rebellion and gave voice to ordinary human suffering.

Biographical Record

Du Fu harbored a lifelong desire to serve the empire through civil administration, but his ambitions were shattered when the catastrophic An Lushan Rebellion erupted in 755. Trapped behind rebel lines in Chang'an and forced into nomadic poverty, he documented the horrors of war with unflinching moral honesty.

Du Fu elevated Chinese regulated verse (Lushi) to unmatched technical perfection, interweaving personal anguish with civic compassion in masterpieces like 'Spring View' and 'Ballad of the Army Carts'. His work has influenced East Asian literature for over twelve centuries as the standard of poetic conscience.

Key Life Milestones

757

Composition of Spring View

Penned the immortal poem 'Spring View' while held captive in the war-ravaged imperial capital of Chang'an.

760

Construction of Chengdu Thatched Cottage

Settled by the Flower Washing Stream in Chengdu, composing over 240 masterworks of pastoral contemplation.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Du Fu Thatched Cottage (Memorial Tomb)
Chengdu (Sichuan), China
GPS: 30.6606, 104.0289
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