Pipa Xing is a sentimental poem
We are both fallen people in the world, why should we have known each other before meeting
After the poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty was demoted to Jiangzhou, in the late autumn of the following year Farewell to a friend who came to visit him by the river, they met a pipa girl on the riverside. After listening to the pipa girl's playing and learning about the pipa girl's life experience, Bai Juyi thought about his life experiences and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Thousands of people, so I wrote this song "Pipa Xing".
Bai Juyi, also known as Letian, was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. He divided his poems into four categories: allegorical, leisurely, sentimental, and miscellaneous. In "Yu Yuan Jiu Shu" written to his friend Yuan Zhen, there is a discussion on the creation of poetry: To touch people's hearts, they should never start with feelings, never start with words, never start with sounds, and never start with meaning. The poet has roots in emotion, Miao language, Hua Sheng, and real meaning.
Bai Juyi believed that poetry is the unity of emotion, language, rhyme and thought. "Pipa Xing" is a long narrative and lyrical poem as famous as his "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", and is a representative work of Bai Juyi's "sentimental" poetry. It can be said that "Pipa Xing" is a model work for Bai Juyi to practice his own poetic theory, and it is also a classic work that will be passed down forever.
Classics have vitality that transcends time and space, and the classicity of "Pipa Xing" is unquestionable. This is a sentimental poem. The whole poem is full of the poet's tears, expressing the poet's frustration with himself and the painful mood of the Pipa girl. The artistic conception is sad and touching, and it is moving to read. "Pipa Xing" is a poem that will It is a masterpiece of poetry that integrates scene description, narrative, lyricism, music, literature and other artistic achievements.