DU Fu,the Style of Poetry in the Flourishing Tang and the Law of Literary History

In recent years,there has,in the circles of researchers on the Tang Poetics,been a claim that DU Fus poetry is a variety of the flourishing Tang poetry,and therefore,should be differentiated and classified into the category of the middle Tang.Those who stick to this view have in most cases made a mention of the law of development of literary history in order to illustrate their points.The article holds that DU Fu is a great poet who gathered all that is good in creating his own poetry,and whose tremendous achievements consist in inheriting the past and ushering in the future in the history of poetry.His poetry is an important mark of the flouring Tang,accounting for why that period of the Tang is so called.The style of DU Fus poetry,profound in inside information and full of power and grandeur,forms an important integral part of that of the flourshing Tang.Although DU Fus poetry opens up a new path for writing poems and songs from the middle Tang on,his style of poetry is quite different from those of the middle Tang and the Song.It is against to the general rule to force DU Fu into classification into the middle Tang.