I like Xia Kun's evaluation of Bai Juyi, the "king of poetry", calling him a "poet walking on the earth".
Compared with the prosperity and heroism of
I like Xia Kun's evaluation of Bai Juyi, the "king of poetry", calling him a "poet walking on the earth".
Compared with the prosperity and heroism of the poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the poems in the middle Tang Dynasty seem to be in a slump. But Bai Juyi in the middle Tang Dynasty was an exception. He was called a prodigy when he was a teenager, but he didn't fly like a meteor like Fang Zhongyong. On the contrary, he studies very hard. "Book class, evening self-study and occasional poems, so he didn't sleep." His hard work and talent laid a solid foundation for the future road of "poetry king"
That's his true colors.
Bai Juyi is a man who dares to tell the truth. He always takes the world as his responsibility. He wrote many articles to discuss current politics, but he offended the powerful ministers Li Jifu and Li Deyu and was excluded for many years. Later, because the Prime Minister Wu was assassinated, he wrote to the court to demand the arrest of the murderer, which made the powerful minister even more dissatisfied. He was accused of "speaking beyond his authority", and later fabricated unfilial lies and demoted him as Jiangzhou Sima.
One autumn night, Bai Juyi saw his friend off by the river. Suddenly, he heard a beautiful pipa sound coming from a nearby boat. It turned out to be a pipa girl who used to be famous for her beauty and art. She was also lazy and linked the poet with the pipa girl, so there was a famous poem "We are all unhappy-at the end of the day, we met." We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? Bai Juyi expressed his feelings for the pipa girl and his miserable life with his sincerity, which caused many people's sadness.
This is really his style.
Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, leading the people to dig lakes and build dams, raising the water level of the West Lake and irrigating thousands of hectares of land, which really benefited the local people. Bai Causeway on the West Lake in Hangzhou was named in memory of Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi has a soft spot for Jiangnan, and also left famous works such as Spring Tour in Qiantang and Memorizing Jiangnan.
Bai Juyi wrote 75 volumes of poems in his life, totaling more than 3,800. He is a veritable "king of poetry". At that time, Bai Juyi's poems were often seen in schools, Buddhist temples, hotels and boats. Scholars, ordinary people and women often recite Bai Juyi's poems. Later, his poems had a great influence abroad. The Korean Prime Minister likes Bai Juyi's poems very much. The Japanese emperor copied Bai Juyi's poems by hand, and the Khitan king also translated Bai Juyi's poems into Khitan characters for ministers to read. Now, in the west, he can be as famous as Beethoven, the "music saint". Bai Juyi is indeed a poet who will remain immortal.
Justice is his pursuit.
Poetry is Bai Juyi's life, and the way he pursues is to use poetry as a weapon to shout for justice and for the weak. He has always stood by the poor and helpless people who have been suffering and wrote many famous allegorical poems. In "Selling Charcoal Weng", "Poor people wear light clothes, but they are worried about charcoal and are cold." And "I don't know the heat when I'm exhausted, but it's a pity that summer is long." They all wrote about the hardships of people's lives and the tangled psychology of contradictions, showing the poet's feelings of "helping the country and caring for the people."
Bai Juyi's sublimity and greatness lie in his ability to torture his soul from the standpoint of the people regardless of his identity and future, and dare to pierce the darkness and sadness in society with the spirit of a poet.
Interest is his feeling.
Bai Juyi is definitely a person with a taste and style of life, which can be seen from his leisurely poems, such as the famous "A suggestion for my friend Liu", "There is a ray of green in the old bottle and a touch of red in the static furnace. It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside? ? "The green new fermented wine is lovely and attractive, which is in harmony with the fiery red fire. What a warm scene it is on a cold winter night! Natural objects and scenery, natural language and people. When the snow comes, invite friends to drink, take poetry as a lesson, and smile, which will be unforgettable for a long time.
Another song, Flowers Are Not Flowers, gives people a particularly hazy aesthetic feeling. "Flowers are not flowers, and fog is not fog. It came in the middle of the night and left at dawn. When did a short and beautiful spring dream come? It seems that there is nowhere to find it. "
Teacher Xia Kun commented, "If flowers are not flowers, they will be more beautiful than flowers; If fog is not fog, it must be more unreal than fog. If a flower is not a flower, it must be as beautiful as a flower. If the fog is not fog, it must be a dream like fog. If a flower is not a flower, it must last longer than a flower. If the fog is not fog, it will be wider than fog. "
Perhaps this is Bai Juyi's personality charm. He can not only care about the world, but also do good deeds in a down-to-earth manner to benefit the people, and he can be enthusiastic and look up at the stars to be a dream catcher!