Bai Juyi is a great realistic poet and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Prince Shaofu, minister of punishments, Hou of Fengyi County. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died of illness in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan, Longmen.
Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.
The early period is the period of helping the world, and the later period is the period of being independent. Bai Juyi was a scholar at the age of 29 in the 16th year of Zhenyuan (800). He has served as provincial school secretary, school assistant and Hanlin bachelor. During the Yuanhe period, he was left as a gleaning, and wrote a lot of satirical poems, including ten masterpieces of Qin Zhongyin and fifty poems of New Yuefu, which made the dignitaries gnash their teeth and grieve.
In the sixth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi's mother died in Chang 'an because of mental disorder. According to the rules at that time, Bai Juyi returned to his hometown for three years and returned to Chang 'an after the funeral. The emperor arranged for him to be a doctor.
In the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, Tang Xianzong died suddenly in Chang 'an, and Tang Muzong succeeded to the throne. Mu Zong loves talents, recalled Chang 'an, and became a foreign minister, doctor, doctor and sinologist. However, at that time, North Korea was in chaos, with ministers fighting for power and profit and infighting. Mu Zong is politically lazy and doesn't listen to advice. So he asked for his release.
In 822, Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou. During his tenure in Hangzhou, he saw that the farmland around Hangzhou was often threatened by drought, but officials refused to use the water from the West Lake to irrigate the fields.
Therefore, despite many obstacles and criticisms, migrant workers were mobilized to raise the lake embankment and build dam sluices, which increased the water capacity and solved the irrigation problem of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland between Qiantang (now Hangzhou) and Yan Guan (now Haining).
Bai Juyi also stipulated that when the farmland is not irrigated, the large and small sluices and Doumen of the West Lake should be closed in time; If there is water leakage, it should be repaired in time. Bai Juyi also organized the masses to repair six wells dug by Li Bi, the secretariat of Hangzhou, in Qiantangmen and Yongjinmen in the Tang Dynasty, which improved the water use conditions of residents.