Also (know) as Tu Fu, Du Fu is considered with Li Bai to be one of China's greatest poets of the Tang dynasty. Du Fu was born to a minor scholar-official in Henan Province. he studied for the civil service exam to become a civil servant like his father, Du Fu failed to pass and spent many years (travel). His early poems threaded together incidents from his travels and first-hand (account) of the hardships he endured; he also wrote poems to or about Li Bai.
The An Lushan Rebellion of 755, which lasted for nearly eight years, enormously (destroy) Chinese society. In these troubled years, Du Fu led miserable life, writing poetry about the events he witnessed and endured—famine, political unrest, and (person) tragedy. He eventually moved to Sichuan, he lived in a cottage and wrote many poems describing his (relative) happy life. During his last years, he moved from place to place again, including a two-year period at Kuizhou, where he won the support of the governor of the region and wrote many poems his productive, late style. Du Fu and his family began their travel again in 768. He died in Hunan Province and was survived by his wife and two remaining sons.
