Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen were famous poets in the Tang Dynasty. Their poetic views are similar, and * * * advocates new Yuefu and forms close friends, and the world calls them "Bai Yuan".
There are often poems between them. Even if they live in a different place, they often write to each other. They invented the "poem delivery mailbox". Among them, Bai Juyi's Nine Letters to Yuan Zhen became an important work in the Tang Dynasty.
Yuan Zhen, a subtle and brilliant character, is a descendant of Xianbei Tuoba, the imperial clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Together with Bai Juyi, he launched the New Yuefu Movement, creating "Yuanhe Style". His representative works include Chrysanthemum, Five Poems from Thinking and Three Sorrow.
Yuan Zhen's contribution and influence
Yuan Zhen's poetic circle of harmony is an important turning point in the history of China's poetry development, and it is a transitional period in which the tune of Tang Dynasty gradually changed to that of Song Dynasty, and "poetry changed into harmony and style". As one of the important poets with irreplaceable significance in this new change, Yuan Zhen occupies an important position in the history of China's poetry.
Yuan Zhen's poetic thoughts and theoretical criticism are mainly reflected in his works, such as Preface to Ancient Yuefu Poems, Preface to Twelve Poems of Yuefu Poems with New Topics in Li He's Collating Books, Narrating Poems as Gifts, Shang Ling's Poems Exposed to the Public, Epitaph of Du Jun, Preface to Collection of Bai Changqing, etc.
Yuan Zhen was the initiator and leader of the "ancient prose movement" in the middle Tang Dynasty, and he also made some achievements in prose. In Yuan Zhen's prose handed down from generation to generation, the number of letters patent is the largest, accounting for more than half, and the achievement is also the highest.
The general style of Yuan Zhen's writing of letters patent is: accurate argument, illustrations, clear theme and elegant writing. It has changed the old-fashioned face with piled allusions, four or six sets of words, and the same head, shoulders, abdomen, waist and tail, just like the spring breeze blowing across the earth.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuan Zhen