Bai Juyi wrote at least three more "New Year's Eve" poems. This poem was written on New Year's Eve, 830. This article will share an ancient poem "New Year's Eve" by Bai Juyi. Everyone is welcome to read it!
"New Year's Eve"
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
Sick eyes have less sleep than keeping up with the year, and the old heart is full of emotions and spring is approaching.
After the fires were sold out and the lights were gone, there were sixty people with flat heads.
About the author:
Bai Juyi (772-846), whose courtesy name was Letian, also known as Xiangshan Jushi, and Mr. Zuiyin, was originally from Taiyuan. He moved to Xiagui when his great-grandfather was here. Born in Xinzheng, Henan. He was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, known as "Yuan Bai" in the world, and "Liu Bai" together with Liu Yuxi. Bai Juyi's poetry has a wide range of themes, diverse 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.
Personal works
Theme
The concentration of themes is one of the artistic features of Bai Juyi's allegorical poems. He usually only chooses the most typical thing, highlighting a theme, "One sad thing, one chant", the theme is very clear. In order to convey the theme to the readers more clearly, a small preface may be added under the title of the poem to highlight the theme, or the theme may be highlighted by "the final chapter showing the ambition". Secondly, the artistic characteristics of white poetry are also reflected in the depiction of characters. He can grasp the characteristics of the characters and use the white drawing method to outline vivid and vivid characters. But the poetic meaning of Bai's poems is not simple. He often uses simple sentences to express allegorical meanings, and achieves shocking artistic effects. The poem "Light Fatty" describes the spirit of the ministers, officials and generals attending the meeting and the sumptuous food and wine at the table. However, it concludes with: "There is a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou are cannibals." What a tragic picture this is. .scene.
Leisure poetry and allegorical poetry are two types of poetry that Bai Juyi particularly valued. Both have the characteristics of being realistic, vulgar and fulfilling, but they are very different in content and mood. The allegorical poems aim at "general benefit", are closely related to social politics, and are often written with pride and enthusiasm; the leisure poems aim at "being alone", "contentment and peace, and playing with one's temperament" ("Yu Yuan Jiu Shu"), This shows an indifferent, peaceful and leisurely mood.
Bai Juyi's leisurely poetry has a great influence on later generations. His simple and plain language style and indifferent and leisurely mood have been repeatedly praised. However, in comparison, the poems in these poems are The "leisure" thoughts of avoiding politics, being content and maintaining peace, and the life attitude of turning to Buddhism and emulating Tao Yuanming are more consistent with the psychology of later generations of literati, so their influence is more far-reaching. For example, Bai Juyi said: "Fighting two snail horns, you get an ox hair" ("Seven Poems on Drinking Wine", Part 7), "What are you fighting over the horns of snails? This is reflected in the light of the stone fire" ("Five Poems on Drinking", Part 2) The poem, and "Later, I will make a detailed review of everything that happened in Wojiao" (Volume 8 of Wu Zeng's "Neng Gai Zhai Man Lu"). That is to say, based on the names given by people in the Song Dynasty, "the names of Drunken Old Man, Wandering Old Man, and Dongpo all come from Bai Letian's poems" (Gong Yizheng's "Jie Yin Notes"). Zhou Bida of the Song Dynasty pointed out: "In this dynasty, Su Wenzhonggong did not take permission lightly. He only respected and loved Lotte, and wrote many poems. All his articles were mainly about eloquence, loyalty and charity, uprightness, affection for people, and no attachment to things. They were roughly similar. . He was relegated to Huangzhou, and his first name was Dongpo, which must have originated from Lotte Zhongzhou." ("Erlaotang Poetry") All these show the influence of Bai Juyi and his poetry.
Poetry Theory
Bai Juyi’s thought combines Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, with Confucianism as the leading thought. Mencius said, "If you are prosperous, you can help the world; if you are poor, you can help yourself." This is the creed he followed throughout his life. Its ambition to "contribute to economic development" is based on Confucian benevolence, and also includes the theories of Huang and Lao, the art of managing Xiao, and the method of Shen Han; its "independent kindness" heart absorbs the concepts of contentment, equality of things, and freedom from Lao and Zhuang. Buddhist thought of "liberation". The two are roughly bounded by the fact that Bai was demoted to Sima Jiangzhou. Bai Juyi not only left nearly 3,000 poems, but also put forward a whole set of poetry theories. He compared poetry to a fruit tree and put forward the viewpoint of "root feelings, seedling words, beautiful sounds, and real meanings" ("Yu Yuan Jiu Shu"). He believed that "emotion" is the fundamental condition of poetry, and "nothing that touches people's hearts precedes emotion." " ("Yu Yuan Jiu Shu"), and the generation of emotions is based on feelings and is tied to current affairs. Therefore, poetry creation cannot be divorced from reality and must be based on various events in real life and reflect the social and political conditions of an era. He inherited the tradition of poetry and poetry since the Book of Songs, and paid attention to the realistic content and social role of poetry. Emphasize the function of poetry in exposing and criticizing political shortcomings. He put forward a series of principles on the expression method of poetry. In "Yu Yuan Jiu Shu", he put forward the famous realist creative principle of "articles are written according to the time, and songs and poems are written according to the situation".
His poetry theory is of progressive significance in urging poets to face reality and care about people's livelihood and suffering. It also has a critical effect on the poetic style that has gradually emphasized form since the Dali (766-779). However, over-emphasis on the subordination of poetry creation to the needs of real politics will inevitably constrain the artistic creation and style diversity of poetry.
Creative ideas
Articles are written according to the time, and songs and poems are written according to the situation.
Style of work
The language is beautiful, popular, harmonious in tone, vivid in image and political allegory.