The relationship between Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen passed the same course, that is, classmates, and became lifelong poetry friends.
1. Introduction to Bai Juyi: a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, known as "Yuan Bai" in the world, and "Liu Bai" together with Liu Yuxi.
Bai Juyi's poetry has a wide range of themes, diverse forms, and simple and popular language. He is known as the "Poetry Demon" and the "Poetry King". He became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a doctor of Zuo Zanshan. There is "Bai's Changqing Collection" handed down from generation to generation, and his representative poems include "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Play" and so on.
2. Introduction to Yuan Zhen: Yuan Zhen, courtesy name Wei Zhi, was born in Henan Province and was a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. The 10th generation grandson of Tuoba Shiyijian, Emperor Zhaocheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, his father Yuan Kuan and his mother Zheng. He was extremely smart and had a reputation for talent at a young age. He left the world with the eternal saying "It used to be difficult to change the sea, but it was not like clouds except Wushan".
His poems are full of sadness, like a lonely phoenix singing in sorrow, which is very touching and touching. Yuan Zhen's greatest achievement was poetry. His creation of Yuefu poems was mostly influenced by Zhang Ji and Wang Jian, while his "new title of Yuefu" was directly attributed to Li Shen. His famous works include the legendary "The Story of Yingying", "Chrysanthemum", "Five Poems on Parting Thoughts", "Three Poems on Sorrows and Feelings", etc.
3. Introduction to Yuanhe style: a special name for the poetic style that became popular during the Yuanhe period of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty. There are two meanings: broad and narrow: the broad meaning refers to various new style poems since Tang Xianzong and Yuanhe. In a narrow sense, it refers to the long and rhythmic arrangements of sub-rhymes in the poems of Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi, and the short and medium-length mixed poems with lingering scenes including erotic style.