Doodles shoot ancient poet to web stardom
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E-mail Shanghai Daily, March 26, 2012
A Chinese poet dubbed the "Poet Sage" of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) has become an Internet superstar 1,300 years after his birth.
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Du Fu's image in textbook. |
Doodle of Du. |
However, this fame is not based on the literary achievements of Du Fu, but on a craze for doodling on his portrait in a school textbook.
Thousands of web users have uploaded images of their take on Du, turning the poet into different characters ranging from a marksman to a young woman holding a doll.
But the doodle frenzy, that has the caption "It is said that Du Fu is a little bit busy these days," has divided opinion online, and a museum devoted to Du in Chengdu City in Sichuan Province has called on doodlers to show respect.
To illustrate how busy Du is, netizens "masterpieces" depict Du riding a scooter, lugging a water barrel, in silhouette listening to an iPod, holding a young woman in his arms, transformed into Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean," basketball star Jeremy Lin and even monsters in online games.
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