Did Bai Juyi catch up with or surpass Li Bai and Du Fu in poetry achievement? what do you think?

The Tang Dynasty was a very prosperous era for the development of China's poetry, and a large number of outstanding poets emerged in this era. In fact, we are most familiar with the poet Li Bai and the poet Du Fu. But there is another poet that we can't ignore, and that is the poet Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi's word is Lotte, and the number is Xiangshan layman. His achievements in poetry not only surpassed Li Bai and Du Fu, but also could catch up with them. He was one of the great realistic poets in the Tang Dynasty and advocated the New Yuefu Movement at that time.

When we talk about poetry, Li Bai or Du Fu is often the first person who is quite tall, but Bai Juyi is also one of the three great poets tied with them. His poems have a wide range of themes and forms. Compared with Li Bai and Du Fu, the language in his poems is more popular, but it is precisely because of this that his poems can be appreciated by more people. At the same time, he and Yuan Zhen at that time promoted the new Yuefu movement, a poetic innovation movement, advocated the development of the Book of Songs and the creation tradition of Yuefu in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and promoted the development of poetry in the Tang Dynasty.

Bai Juyi had a great influence in the middle Tang Dynasty. His poems advocated popular realism and had far-reaching significance in the history of poetry development. He was also the first poet to use poetry as an allegory. Bai Juyi's most familiar poems are Pipa Xing and Song of Eternal Sorrow. These two poems are Bai Juyi's most successful works. While narrating, they strengthened the expressive force of lyricism, which has high artistic value and showed their feelings incisively and vividly.

Therefore, Bai Juyi was one of the greatest poets in the Tang Dynasty except Li Bai and Du Fu. His achievements in poetry creation are no less than Du Li's, and the new Yuefu movement advocated by him greatly promoted the development of poetry in the Tang Dynasty and had a far-reaching impact on later generations.