Du Fu - the greatest of the Chinese poets

09/25/2004

Du Fu - the greatest of the Chinese poets

Post @ 05:37 in Chinese Culture

Wikipedia today's feature article introduced my favorite Chinese poet: Du Fu.

Du Fu was a Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Po, he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. His own greatest ambition was to help his country by becoming a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. His life, like the country, was devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and the last 15 years of his life were a time of almost constant unrest. Initially unpopular, his works came to be hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese poetry.

7 Comments

1 | Comment from bcnhegiy xodke on October 30, 2006 02:30 AM

jfznr jgswhk xzkad xqhb vynt bpin lbjxwsd

2 | Comment from equity loans on December 11, 2006 01:48 AM

equity loans - equity loans
Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then
turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a
bender this time -- he left a party in Cleveland, Ohio, at 11:30 last
night, and they found his car this morning in the smokestack of a British
aircraft carrier in the Formosa Straits.'
-- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton
bad fiction contest.

3 | Comment from equity loans on December 11, 2006 01:48 AM

equity loans - equity loans
The notes blatted skyward as they rose over the Canada geese, feathered
rumps mooning the day, webbed appendages frantically pedaling unseen
bicycles in their search for sustenance, driven by cruel Nature's maxim,
'Ya wanna eat, ya gotta work,' and at last I knew Pittsburgh.
-- Winning sentence, 1987 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

4 | Comment from equity loans on December 12, 2006 05:25 AM

equity loans - equity loans
Expect the worst, it's the least you can do.

5 | Comment from free ringtones on December 15, 2006 11:20 AM

free ringtones - free ringtones
Bridge ahead. Pay troll.

6 | Comment from free ringtones on December 15, 2006 11:47 AM

free ringtones - free ringtones
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway

7 | Comment from title loans on December 16, 2006 08:22 AM

title loans - title loans
You too can wear a nose mitten.

This Info:	Remember Forget after I post
Name:
Email:
URL:
Comment:

Comment guidelines

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.wen-xin.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/59

09/25/2004