Abstract: Du Fu's poetry has been widely regarded as the poetry of history, in which narrative has played a central role. Thus in the early Qing dynasty, Qiu Zhaoao, Pu Qilong and Wu Zhantai all emphasized the issue of narrative in their annotation of Du Fu's poetry. Qiu and Pu often revealed historical facts through analyses of expressions in Du Fu's poetry, whose view of narrative can be called "narrative dominated by story." Wu was mainly interested in narration of Du Fu' poetry, and considered that Du Fu "wrote poems with the brush of a historian." Their narrative analyses of Du Fu's poetry were critical practice guided by the poetry of history theory. Therefore, a study of those annotations will contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between narrative and the poetry of history. It also elaborates on the coexistence and interaction of the two traditions, lyrical tradition and narrative tradition.

Key words: narrative, poetry of history, the early Qing dynasty, annotation of Du Fu's poetry