Du Fu

Metropolis Fu, which was listed in the Selected Readings as the style of Fu originally, has occupied a critical role in the development history of Fu, including a great number of first-class woirks. Metropolis Fu offers an important angle of view from which we study ancient Chinese culture. Particularly, with respect to Chinese urban culture, Metropolis Fu embodies urban civilization from an all-around, multi-level perspective for the first time in the history of Chinese literature. Metropolis Fu concerns whatever things such as sitting of a city or town, palaces, gardens, tilling and hunting, ceremony and customs, history, transportation , culture and education etc, narrates in detail and forms into systems, which are similar to local chronicles of different cities in different period of time.Most of the writers of Metropolis Fu held a practical attitude, created in a conscientious and careful way. Since the cultural information involved in Fu is rich and reliable, many researchers has recently engaged Fu as a media, been studying different academic subjects in such various fields as organizational systems of a town or city, urban culture, the changing and developing of etiquette, the conversion of phonology. Some experts on geography even focus on the historical transition of climate in China. Metropolis Fu has become an inexhaustible cultural supply.By reading through some anthology of Fu, collected literary works,...