Abstract: During the war in the 1940s, Feng Zhi (1905-1993) experienced a life of migration. In his spiritual pedigree, the great Tang poet Du Fu (712-770) has a tremendous influence on him in the 1940s: he “denied” his literary works written in the 1920s and the 1930s, then absorbed, transformed and inherited Du Fu’s spirit, thus completing his breakthrough. He abandoned some liberal ideas, tried to intervene in the real society of China on a personal basis, and amplified his “intervening” realistic concern in the “patience” of “work and waiting.” At the same time, he made a “heterogeneous” breakthrough from his own times on the basis of Du Fu. He showed his thoughts in the form of essays by virtue of modern media and the unique cultural field of the wartime Kunming.

Key words: Feng Zhi, 1940s, influence of Du Fu, migration experience, intervention and breakthrough