Editing Du Mu (section)

{{Short description|Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician (803–852)}}
{{for|the Ming dynasty scholar-official and poet|Du Mu (Ming dynasty)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Du (surname)|Du]]|lang=Chinese}}
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| name        = Du Mu
| image       = Du Mu.jpg
| caption     = Du Mu by Shangguan Zhou (上官周, b. 1665)
| birth_date  = 803
| birth_place =  [[Chang'an]]
| death_date  = 852
| death_place =  [[Chang'an]]
| occupation  = Calligrapher, poet, politician
| nationality = Chinese
| genre       =
| movement    =
| period      = [[Tang dynasty]]
| website     =
}}

'''Du Mu''' ({{lang-zh|c=杜牧|p=Dù Mù|w=Tu<sup>4</sup> Mu<sup>4</sup>}}; 803–852) was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and politician who lived during the late [[Tang dynasty]]. His [[courtesy name]] was '''Muzhi''' ({{lang|zh|牧之}}), and [[art name]] '''Fanchuan''' ({{lang|zh|樊川}}).<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104554/http://203.72.198.245/web/Content.asp?ID=63622&Query=1 |archivedate=29 September 2007 |title=Du Mu |url=http://203.72.198.245/web/Content.asp?ID=63622&Query=1 |author=Zhu, Jincheng  |edition= 1st }} [[Encyclopedia of China]] (Chinese Literature Edition)</ref>  He is best known for his lyrical and romantic [[quatrain]]s.<ref name="indiana">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ0lJDL_1nsC&pg=PA824 |title= The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature|editor=Nienhauser, William H |pages=824–826|publisher= Indiana University Press|year= 1986 |isbn= 0-253-32983-3 }}</ref>

Regarded as a major poet during a golden age of Chinese poetry, his name is often mentioned together with that of another renowned [[Tang poetry#Late Tang|Late Tang poet]], [[Li Shangyin]], as the "Little Li-Du" ({{lang|zh|小李杜}}), in contrast to the "Great Li-Du": [[Li Bai]] and [[Du Fu]]. Among his influences were Du Fu, Li Bai, [[Han Yu]] and [[Liu Zongyuan]].