Even late at night, I often dream of having fun and carnivaling as a teenager; in the dream, I wake up crying and my tears stain my pink face.
These two sentences come from Bai Juyi's "Pipa Play". This poem describes the pipa girl's superb playing skills and her unfortunate experiences, exposing the unreasonable bureaucratic corruption, poor people's livelihood, and buried talents in feudal society. The phenomenon expresses the poet's deep sympathy for her, and also expresses the poet's resentment at being demoted innocently.
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Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms, and simple and popular language. He is known as the "Poetry Demon" and the "Poetry King". He became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a doctor of Zuo Zanshan. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. There is "Bai's Changqing Collection" handed down from generation to generation, and his representative poems include "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Play" and so on.
In the first month of the seventh year of Dali (772), Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was born into a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family in Xinzheng, Henan Province. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, war broke out in his hometown. In the feudal town, Li Zhengji separatized more than ten states in Henan, and the war was so intense that the people were in dire straits. When Bai Juyi was two years old, his grandfather, who was the magistrate of Gong County, died in Chang'an, and his grandmother died of illness shortly after.
Bai Juyi's father Bai Jigeng first joined the army from Songzhou Sihu and was awarded the county magistrate of Pengcheng County in Xuzhou (780). A year later, Bai Jigeng and Xuzhou governor Li Wei performed meritoriously in defending Xuzhou and were promoted to Xuzhou Biejia. In order to avoid During the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to Fuli, Suzhou to live in peace. Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Fuli, Suzhou.
Bai Juyi was a great poet who had great influence in the mid-Tang Dynasty. His poetic ideas and poetry creation, with his outstanding emphasis on popularity and realism and his full expression, occupied an important position in the history of Chinese poetry. . Bai Juyi's above-mentioned requirements for poetry have only one purpose, which is to make up for current affairs.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pipa Xing