Going out late to look for someone but not meeting them
[Author] Bai Juyi ? [Dynasty] Tang Dynasty
If you don’t take advantage of the cool night, it doesn’t matter if you look for someone but don’t meet them.
Under the shade of the locust tree, I am wearing light clothes and my horse is stable. I want to take a leisurely walk for a lane or two. A brief introduction to Bai Juyi, the author of "Going out late to find someone but not meeting him"
Bai Juyi (772-846), also known as Letian, also known as Xiangshan Jushi, also known as Mr. Zuiyin, was born in Xinzheng, Henan (now Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou, Henan). A great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi was born in Dongguozhai, Xinzheng, Zhengzhou (now Dongguosi Village, Xinzheng City) in the first month of the seventh year of Dali (772) of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty. Bai's ancestral home is Taiyuan, Shanxi. Bai Juyi's grandfather Bai Kun moved to Xiagui (now north of Weinan City, Shaanxi). Bai Quan later served as the county magistrate of Gong County (now Gongyi City, Zhengzhou, Henan Province), and was a good friend of the magistrate of Xinzheng County, his neighbor at that time. Seeing the beautiful mountains and clear waters of Xinzheng, he moved to Xinzheng. Bai Juyi himself was born in Xinzheng, Henan Province. After his death, he was buried in Luoyang, Henan. The memorial hall of Bai Juyi's former residence is located in the suburbs of Luoyang, and Baiyuan (Bai Juyi's Tomb) is located in Pipa Peak in Xiangshan Mountain in the south of Luoyang City. 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", "The Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Play" and so on.
Bai Juyi's other works
○ Song of Everlasting Regret
○ Spring trip to Qiantang Lake
○ Cao/Farewell with ancient grass
○ Watching the Cutting of Wheat
○ Recalling Jiangnan·Jiangnan is Good
○ More works by Bai Juyi