Du Fu  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from
Tu Fu) Jump to: navigation, search This is a Chinese name; the
family name is Du (Tu). Du Fu Later portrait of Du Fu with a
goatee, a mustache, and black headwear There are no
contemporaneous portraits of Du Fu; this is a later artist's
impression. Born 712 Died 770 (aged 57–58) Occupation Poet  Du
Fu (Wade–Giles: Tu Fu; Chinese: 杜甫; pinyin: Dù Fǔ; 712 – 770)
was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. Along with Li
Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese
poets.[1] His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a
successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the
necessary accommodations. His life, like the whole country, was
devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and his last 15
years were a time of almost constant unrest.  Although initially
he was little-known to other writers, his works came to be
hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese literary
culture. Of his poetic writing, nearly fi