Bai Juyi [Tang Dynasty]
There is no reason to look at beauty, and it is cold and unfriendly.
What is the longest night? Everyone sleeps alone.
At the beginning of the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, Bai Juyi was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 29 and lived outside for nearly 10 months. She earnestly asked her mother to marry Xiangling, but her feudal mother refused. Bai Juyi was helpless and reluctantly left home. In the autumn of the twentieth year of Zhenyuan (AD 804), Bai Juyi went to school in Chang 'an and needed to move his family to Chang 'an. After returning home, he begged his mother to allow him to marry Xiangling again, but his mother, who had more doors than anything, not only refused his request again, but also refused to meet them when the whole family moved away. Their marriage was hopeless, but their deep love didn't end there. Bai Juyi punished his mother's mistake by not marrying others, and wrote three poems to commemorate Xiangling: Missing Xiangling on a Winter Night, Feeling Autumn and Farewell. For eight years, my mother never allowed Bai Juyi to meet Xiangling again, nor did she allow him to mention Xiangling.