Bai Juyi's personal profile

Bai Juyi (February 28, 772-September 8, 846), whose real name was Lotte, was later named Mr. Xiangshan Jushi and Mr. Zuiyin, and he was known as a generalized educator in the field of poetry. Xinzheng, Henan, Taiyuan, Shanxi, was a writer in the Tang Dynasty. He is particularly good at writing poems and is one of the most representative poets in the middle Tang Dynasty. The works are approachable, and there is even a saying that "an old woman can understand".

Bai Juyi actively engaged in political reform in his early years, cared about people's livelihood, advocated the new Yuefu movement, and advocated that poetry creation should be based on real events and reflect the situation of the times. The so-called "articles are written in time, songs and poems are written in things" is one of the important leading figures in practical literature after Du Fu.

Bai Juyi is as famous as Yuan Zhen, nicknamed "Bai Yuan". Bai Yuan, two collaborators in the literary innovation movement, wrote "Changqing Collection of Yuan County" and "Bai Changqing Collection" respectively, which are called Changqing Style and Yuanhe Style in history. In his later years, Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi, known as "Bai Liu", sang many songs.

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Different from most other poets, Bai Juyi's works gained a great reputation when he was alive, and were widely circulated all over the country and at all levels. He was the most popular poet in the Tang Dynasty. His works also spread to Japan and Silla. In the early days of Japan, the Bai anthology was the most important basis for the localization of Japanese literature.

Bai Juyi believes that literature is a tool to reflect his philosophy of life. According to their present situation, they can be divided into two categories: "both economic and good". Bai Juyi once divided his poems into four categories: allegory, leisure, sentimentality and miscellaneous methods, and he paid special attention to two types of poems:

One is a satirical poem as a tool of "helping others to abuse", and the other is a leisurely poem reflecting one's mentality of "being alone". And put forward the idea that "articles are written for the time, and poems are written for things". Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen's essays enjoyed a high reputation in the Tang and Five Dynasties, when their literary reputation was still above that of Han Yu.

Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen are good friends, and they have a similar understanding of the function of poetry, so they became comrades-in-arms of the New Yuefu Movement. At the same time, the two can compete in poetry, so they often take singing as a play. Bai Juyi once used Cao Cao to praise Liu Bei's "heroes in the world, only the ears of the monarch and the minister" to describe their friendship. Bai Juyi often lived in Luoyang in his later years and often sang with Liu Yuxi.