"Bai's Changqing Collection"/"Bai's Collected Works".
Introduction to "Bai's Changqing Collection":
1. Because it was compiled during Mu Zong's Changqing period, it is named after "Bai's Changqing Collection". Originally composed of seventy-five volumes, there are now seventy-one volumes. There are engravings in both the Song and Ming Dynasties. In 1979, Zhonghua Book Company published the proofread version of Gu Xuejie's "Collected Works of Bai Juyi".
Bai Juyi compiled his poems several times during his lifetime. It was first named "Bai's Changqing Collection" (Changqing was the reign name of Mu Zong), and later renamed "Bai's Collected Works".
2. Bai Juyi's "Bai's Changqing Collection" is divided into two parts, which he compiled twice.
The first collection contains nine volumes of "Old Diao Poems" and eight volumes of "Rhythm Poems". The latter collection has four volumes of "Ge Poems" and eleven volumes of "Rhythm Poems". "Gudiao poetry" or "Ge poetry" all refer to ancient style poetry. There is also a volume titled "Bange Poems". The poems collected are generally in ancient style, but often contain couplets or prose sentences that are composed of flat and oblique lines.
3. "Bai's Changqing Collection" is divided into 75 volumes, 5 copies were copied, and they were hidden in the homes of his disciples and later scattered. There are currently 71 volumes in existence, including more than 3,600 poems and essays (mixed with dozens of works by others).
The Ming Dynasty Ma Yuan Diao reprinted version, the 1618 Naha Daoyuan version in Japan, and the Shaoxing version are basically the same. In the early Qing Dynasty, Wang Liming's "Baixiangshan Poetry Collection" only collected poems. Today's Gu Xuejie used the Shaoxing edition as the base, and edited various editions to form "Bai Juyi Collection" and "Waiji Collection", with a biography of Bai, important prefaces and postscripts of Bai Collection, and a brief chronology. Chen Yinke, a recent scholar, has "Yuanbai Poems and Notes", Zhonghua Book Company published in 1962 Chen Youqin's "Compilation of Classical Literature Research Materials: Bai Juyi Volume", Japanese-Japanese Hanabusa Hideki's "Bai Juyi Research", etc., are all important research references. books.
4. The poems collected in "Bai's Changqing Collection" are divided into four categories: allegory, leisure, sentimentality, and miscellaneous rhymes, with more than 2,800 poems in total.
Allegorical poems are the most essential part of Bai's poetry. These include 50 pieces of "New Yuefu", 10 pieces of "Qin Zhongyin" and other representative works.
Famous articles include "Guan Mao Mao", "Charcoal Seller", "Du Lingsou", "Light Fat", "Chong Fu", "Shangyang White-haired Man", etc. Most of these poems directly describe the events, and some use metaphors to describe the events. Leisure poems are mostly used to express leisurely moods, or describe natural scenery and fields. Representative works include two poems "Shi Yi" and three poems "Return to the Field".