Bai Juyi (772-846), Han nationality, named Letian, late name Xiangshan Jushi, was from Xiagui (now Weinan, Shaanxi). He was a famous and far-reaching poet and writer in the Tang Dynasty in the history of Chinese literature. He was known as the "Poetry Demon" and Known as the "King of Poetry", his poems have wide influence in China, Japan, Korea and other countries. Together with Yuan Zhen, he launched the "New Yuefu Movement", known as "Yuan Bai" in the world. Bai Juyi's ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. His great-grandfather moved to Xiagu (sounding guī) (now north of Weinan, Shaanxi), and his grandfather Bai Huang moved to Sincheng, Henan. Bai Juyi was born in Dongguozhai Village (today's Dongguo Temple) in the west of Xinzheng City on the twentieth day of the first month of the seventh year of the Dali calendar of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty (February 28, 772 AD). Bai Juyi lived in Xiangshan, Luoyang for a long time in his later years, and was known as "Xiangshan Jushi". In August of the sixth year of Wuzong Huichang (AD 846), Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan, Luoyang at the age of 75. After his death, Li Chen, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem to commemorate him and said: "For sixty years, who taught me how to become a poetry immortal in the underworld? The floating clouds are not named Juyi, and the inaction of nature is named Lotte. A boy interprets the song "Eternal Sorrow" , Hu'er can sing "Pipa". The article has been widely read, and I once missed Qing and felt sad." He is the author of seventy-one volumes of "Bai Shi Changqing Collection".
In his later years, Bai Juyi became the Crown Prince Shaofu. He was given the posthumous title "Wen" and was known as Bai Fu and Bai Wengong in the world. In literature, he actively advocated the New Yuefu Movement, advocating that "articles should be written according to the time, and songs and poems should be written according to the situation." He wrote many poems that lamented the times and reflected the people's sufferings, which had a great influence on later generations. They are the representative of Chinese literature. A very important poet in history. During the Yuanhe period, he served as a Hanlin scholar and Zuo Zanshan doctor. Because he offended the powerful, he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. He became a Buddhist in his later years. He wrote many poems throughout his life, among which allegorical poems are the most famous. His language is easy to understand and he is known as "the old woman can understand it". Among the narrative poems, "Pipa Play" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" are very famous.
Deng Xiaoda once said: "It is precisely because the old woman can understand Bai Letian's poems that the status of his poems in the hearts of the people has been established."
Bai Juyi's poems were widely circulated at that time, from the court to the people, and his reputation spread as far as Xinjiang, North Korea, and Japan. Bai Juyi's poems had a huge influence on later literature. Pi Rixiu in the late Tang Dynasty, Lu You in the Song Dynasty, Wu Weiye and Huang Zunxian in the Qing Dynasty, etc. were all inspired by Bai Juyi's poems. Bai Juyi's poetry has the greatest influence in Japan. He is Japan's favorite poet of the Tang Dynasty. His poems can often be quoted in Japanese classical novels. It can be said that in the hearts of Japanese people, Bai Juyi is the poet of the Tang Dynasty in China. Man of the hour.
In his later years, he became friendly with Liu Yuxi and called him Liu Bai. He advocated that songs and poems should play an allegorical role. His poems are very distinctive and known for their bright style, which is highly praised by later generations of poets.
Bai Juyi's main works include: "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Pipa Play", "Farewell to the Ancient Grassland", "Spring Journey to Qiantang Lake", "Ode to the Dusk River", "Recalling the South of the Yangtze River", "Peach Blossoms in Dalin Temple", "Drunken Reminiscing with Li Shiyi in Yuanjiu" "Zhizhong Shusheng", "Saurus of Love", "Inscribed on Yueyang Tower", "Viewing the Cutting of Wheat", "Gong Ci", "Asking Liu Shijiu", "Buying Flowers" "Since the war in Henan, the brothers were separated due to hunger in the pass, each in one place."
In his early years, Bai Juyi was enthusiastic about helping the world, emphasizing the political function of poetry, and striving to be popular. He wrote "New Yuefu" and "Qin Zhongyin", a total of sixty poems. "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells" are both famous historical poems. The long narrative poems "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and "Pipa Play" represent his highest artistic achievements. In his middle age, he suffered setbacks in the officialdom. "Since then, I have been separated from my official career, and I have never said anything about worldly affairs." However, he still wrote many good poems and did many good deeds for the people. There is still a Baidi in Hangzhou's West Lake to commemorate him. . In his later years, he paid great attention to landscapes and wrote some short poems. A poem presented to Liu Yuxi goes: "Don't listen to the old songs and old songs, but listen to the new words "Willow Branches"", which shows that he has composed some new words by himself. One of them, "Flowers Are Not Flowers", has a hazy beauty.
