The New Yuefu Movement is a poetic innovation movement advocated by Tang poets Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen.
1, Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi.
He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu". ?
Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse 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.
2. Yuan Zhen
Yuan Zhen (779-83 1) was a minister, poet and writer in the Tang Dynasty. One word is small, and the other is Ming, from Luoyang, Henan. Descendants of the Northern Wei imperial clan Xianbei Tuoba, the 19th grandson of Tuoba, Zhao Chengdi of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the son of Yuan Kuan, a tournament doctor, and the mother of Zheng of Xingyang. Book closure and dispersion
Smart, rare talent. In the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), after he became the ancestor of Ming Dynasty, he was granted the left hand to collect the remains, entered the river shogunate, was promoted to the school secretary, and was transferred to the censor.
At one time, under the planning of Li, he became the minister of the same state and the right minister. In the fourth year of Taihe, I was appointed as the ambassador of Wuchang. In the fifth year of Taihe (83 1), he died at the age of 53 and was posthumously awarded the right servant of Shangshu.
Yuan Zhen's realm circle shared the same topic with Bai Juyi, became lifelong poetry friends, and * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, which was called "Bai Yuan" by the world and formed "Yuanhe Style". Poetry has made great achievements, and the words are simple, which means sadness, gripping and touching.
The creation of Yuefu poems was influenced by Wang Jian of Zhang Jihe, and the "New Poem Yuefu" came directly from Li Shen. His representative works include Biography of Yingying, Chrysanthemum, Five Poems of Leaving Thoughts and Three Poems of Mourning for the Past.
There are more than 830 existing poems, including poems, imperial edicts, admonitions, etc. 100 volumes, and the collection of Changqing in Yuanshi County is retained.
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The name "New Yuefu" was put forward by Bai Juyi relative to the Han Yuefu, and its meaning is to write current affairs with the theme of new Yuefu created by himself, so it is also called "New Yuefu Movement".
The characteristics of this kind of poems are: self-innovation, chanting current affairs, and embodying the realistic spirit of Han Yuefu. Besides Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Li Shen and Zhang Jihe Wang Jian are also important writers in this movement.
The poetry creation of the New Yuefu Movement practiced the above theoretical proposition. The Yuefu poems of Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji and Jincon reflect the extremely broad social life in the middle Tang Dynasty, reveal the social contradictions that existed at that time from various aspects, and put forward extremely acute social problems.
It left a glorious page in the history of China's poetry and had a far-reaching influence on the development of later poetry. In the late Tang Dynasty, Pi Rixiu wrote 10 Zheng Yuefu, and Nie also wrote more realistic Yuefu poems, which directly inherited the tradition of the new Yuefu movement.