These two sentences are from Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip. By describing the pipa girl's superb playing skills and unfortunate experiences, this poem reveals some unreasonable phenomena in feudal society, such as bureaucratic corruption, the decline of people's livelihood, and the burying of talents. It also expresses the poet's deep sympathy for her and the poet's resentment at her innocent being demoted.
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Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. 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.
Bai Juyi was born in the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772) in Xinzheng, Henan Province, a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, a war broke out in his hometown. Li Fanzhen is divided into more than ten states in Henan, and the people have suffered from war. When Bai Juyi was two years old, Ren Gongxian's grandfather died in Chang 'an, followed by his grandmother.
Bai Juyi's father, Bai, was first taught by Songzhou Division (780), a magistrate in Pengcheng County, Xuzhou. A year later, Bai and Li Yan, the secretariat of Xuzhou, insisted on Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to Xuzhou special driving. In order to avoid the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to Suzhou for a peaceful life. Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Suzhou R&F.
Bai Juyi was a great poet with great influence in the middle Tang Dynasty. His poetic thoughts and creations, which emphasize popularity and realism, occupy an important position in the history of China's poetry. Bai Juyi's above requirements for poetry have only one purpose, that is, to make up for current politics.
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Baidu encyclopedia-pipa star