Egrets written by Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty
I'm still in my forties, and my hair is drooping in a hurry.
Why are there two egrets by the water, carefree and with silk hanging on their heads?
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.
1988, the Society of Chinese Culture Expo in Japan donated a stone tablet to Bai Juyi, and the inscription was written in Chinese and Japanese. 1995, four Japanese wrote "Sakura Dedication" here.
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