Bai Juyi, a native of Xinzheng County, Henan Province, was born in Taiyuan. Born in a small bureaucratic family, he is a Confucian scholar in the world, and his parents were born in the Ming Dynasty.
The phrase "writing for the time, poetry for the things" embodies Bai Juyi's creative principle of "writing for the time, writing for the things". That is, poetry must serve politics and undertake the political mission of "sizing up the situation" and "releasing human feelings" in order to achieve the political purpose of "relieving people's illness and making up for the lack of time"
The basic purpose of Bai Juyi's satirical poems on current affairs is to write for the monarch, ministers, people, things and things, which is the core of Bai Juyi's poetic theory.
We know that literature is rooted in real life and is a reflection of real life. "Celine" back to the sixty-ninth said:
If ordinary people feel useless, they will move with emotion, and then sigh with songs and poems.
Therefore, Bai Juyi pointed out that if you want to write poems that serve politics, you must care about politics and actively draw creative sources from real life. Such as widely reflecting people's sufferings, expressing great sympathy, such as Watching Wheat Cutting, People Picking Rehmannia, and Shang Yang's White-haired Man; For example, exposing the "barren joy" of the ruling class and all kinds of disadvantages closely related to it, selling charcoal Weng and red carpet, etc. There are even people who oppose militarism and express patriotic thoughts, such as Xi Liang, Bin Rong and others, and Xinfeng brokeback Weng.
Bai Juyi's thought of poetry creation increases the educational function of poetry, expounds the characteristics of poetry, and emphasizes the educational function and social function of poetry in combination with this characteristic. Such as "Nine Books with the Same Yuan":
Touching people, don't care about feelings first, then don't care about words, then don't care about sounds, and then don't care about righteousness. Poet: root feeling, Miao language, Hua Sheng, true meaning. From saints to fools, ... those who have no voice but no feeling.
The four elements of poetry: emotion, meaning and form. "Righteousness" is the "six meanings" in the Book of Songs, which mainly refers to the spirit of "beauty thorn". "True meaning" means taking righteousness as the fruit, that is, "taking its six meanings", which makes the poem have beautiful content.
Generally speaking, Bai Juyi's poetry creation idea is "articles should be combined with the times, and poems should be combined with the phases", which shows a poet's sense of social responsibility and keen insight and is an indispensable recorder of each era.