Original-from forbidden to forbidden, go out at dusk. Needless to say, the east of the city is a stranger and Jiangnan Road. Spur the horses and chariots and wave goodbye to relatives and friends. I was born without a hometown, and my peace of mind is where I belong.
Return from the Forbidden City in the morning and leave from Chang 'an East in the evening. Don't say that the path in the east of the city is tortuous. The place to go on this trip is Jiangnan Road. The horses and chariots are ready to raise their whips on the road and wave goodbye to their relatives and hometown. I was born without a fixed place, as long as it is a calm place, it is my home.
Bai Juyi (772-846), whose real name was Lotte, was named a Buddhist in Xiangshan in his later years. Zhenyuan sixteen years, Jinshi, Yuanhe, as Zuo Zanshan doctor. Later, he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima, because the above-mentioned demand for the arrest of the murderer of Prime Minister Wu offended powerful people.
From the post-official to the criminal minister, in literature, he advocated that "articles should be written in time and poems should be written for things", and he was an advocate of the New Yuefu Movement. His poems are easy to understand. It is said that his poems should be understood by old women. Also known as "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen, Liu Yuxi created the style of relying on sound to write lyrics in the middle Tang Dynasty. There is Bai Changqing Collection.
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Creation background
In 8 15 AD, Prime Minister Wu was assassinated, and Bai Juyi advocated that it was considered ultra vires to crack down on the murderer. Later, Bai Juyi was slandered: his mother fell into a well to see flowers and died, but Bai Juyi wrote poems about "appreciating flowers" and "new wells", which was detrimental to the famous religion. Therefore, he was demoted to Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) Sima.
"There is no hometown in my heart, but peace of mind is my home" is a manifestation of Bai Juyi's disappointment with the imperial court at that time.
Bai Juyi believes that "emotion" is the fundamental condition of poetry. "Those who touch people's hearts should not care about emotion first." The emergence of emotion is helpful and tied to current politics. Therefore, Bai Juyi's poetry creation is not divorced from reality, but based on various events in real life, reflecting the social and political situation of an era.
He inherited the tradition of "beauty and beauty" since the Book of Songs and attached importance to the realistic content and social function of poetry. Emphasize the role of poetry in exposing and criticizing political abuses. He put forward a series of principles in the method of poetry expression.
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