Du Fu’s famous sayings for the fourth grade are as follows:

1. What does Piao Piao look like? The sky and the earth are like sand gulls.

2. Two orioles sang in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascended to the blue sky.

3. When you draw a bow, you should use a strong one, and when you use a sword, you should use a long one. To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, capture the king first.

4. It is the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and we meet you again when the flowers are falling.

5. Life is rare in seventy years.

Du Fu (AD 712-AD 770), whose courtesy name was Zimei, also called himself Shaoling Ye Lao. Han nationality, whose ancestral home is Xiangyang, a native of Gong County, Henan Province (now Gongyi, Henan Province). A great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, he and Li Bai were collectively known as "Li Du". In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".

Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Thatched Cottage.

Du Fu created such masterpieces as "Spring Look", "Northern Expedition", "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells". In 759, Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he escaped the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the common people and national affairs.

Although Du Fu is a realist poet, he also has a wild and uninhibited side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroic spirit from his famous work "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking". The core of Du Fu's thoughts is the Confucian thought of benevolent government. He has the grand ambition of "bringing the emperors Yao and Shun to the throne, and then making the customs pure."

Although Du Fu was not well-known during his lifetime, he later became famous and had a profound impact on both Chinese literature and Japanese literature. About 1,500 poems by Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected in "Du Gongbu Collection".