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There are many thoughts at the end of the year, and the end of the world has not returned.
Old people are new, but illness reduces old glory.
Hometown is still a souvenir, and fame and fortune have been lost.
In the forty-nine years of the Ming dynasty, it is necessary to turn over the past.
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Except at night, it describes the wandering situation at the end of the year and expresses the author's deep homesickness in a foreign land.
In addition to the night, the first couplet pointed out the situation of wandering outside at the end of the year and the difficulty of home, which paved the way for the lyric behind. It expresses the author's deep sadness that he is in a foreign land and homesick.
Brief introduction of Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (772-846), Han nationality, was born in Xinzheng, Henan (now Xinzheng, Zhengzhou). He was called "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen and "Bai Liu" with Liu Yuxi. He is a famous poet and writer with far-reaching influence in the history of China literature. He is as famous as Li Bai and Du Fu and is a "poet demon". Bai Juyi's ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi, and his great-grandfather moved to the summer suburbs (now Weinan North, Shaanxi). His grandfather Huang Bai moved to Xinzheng, Henan. Bai Juyi was born in Dongguozhai Village (now Dongguo Temple) in the west of Xinzheng City on the 20th day of the first month in Dali, Tang Daizong (February 28th, 772 AD). Bai Juyi lived in Xiangshan, Luoyang for a long time in his later years, and was called "Xiangshan laity". In August (846), five cases of Huichang, Bai Juyi died of illness in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan, Luoyang, at the age of 75. After his death, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem to mourn him, saying, "Who taught Ming Lu to write poems for sixty years and make jade beads?" Floating clouds are naturally happy if they are not famous and easy to live in. Boys perform "Song of Eternal Sorrow", and Hu Er can sing "Pipa". I am very sad that the article filled people's ears for a while. "He is the author of seventy-one volumes of Bai Changqing Collection.
In his later years, Bai Juyi was made a prince, and posthumous title was a white father and a white man. He actively advocated the new Yuefu movement in literature, and advocated that "articles should be written in time and poems should be written for things". He wrote many poems lamenting the times and reflecting the sufferings of the people, which had a great influence on later generations. He is a very important poet in the history of China literature. Yuanhe was a bachelor of Hanlin and a doctor of Zuo Zanshan. Because of offending powerful people, he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima, and he was a good Buddha in his later years, so he was called Shi Fo, and he became a free and unfettered layman himself. He wrote many poems in his life, among which allegorical poems are the most famous, and the language is easy to understand, so he is called "the eloquent old woman". Narrative poems such as Pipa Xing and Song of Eternal Sorrow are all famous.
Bai Juyi's poems spread widely in ancient times, from the court to the folk, and their fame spread far and wide in Xinjiang, Korea and Japan. Bai poetry has a great influence on later literature. Pi Rixiu, Lu Guimeng, Nie, Luo Yin and Du Xunhe in the late Tang Dynasty and Wang Yucheng, Mei, Su Shi, Lu You, Wu and Huang Zunxian in the Qing Dynasty were all inspired by Bai Juyi's poems. Bai Juyi's poems have the greatest influence in Japan. He is Japan's favorite poet of the Tang Dynasty. His poems are often quoted by Japanese classical novels. It can be said that Bai Juyi was the man of the hour in China's Tang poetry.
Bai Juyi's main works are: Song of Eternal Sorrow, Pipa, Farewell to Ancient Grass, Spring Tour in Qiantang River, Mujiang Song, Memory of Jiangnan, Peach Blossom in Dalin Temple, Drunk with Li Eleven, Memory of Yuanjiu, Knowing the Book Province in China, Sauvignon Blanc, The Theme of Yueyang Tower, The View of Cutting Wheat and Palace.
Bai Juyi was enthusiastic about helping the world in his early years and emphasized the political function of poetry. Moreover, it is popular. The 60 * * written by Xin Yuefu and Qin Zhongyin are really "only disgusting" and "every sentence must be tuned", and Du Fu's "Three Officials" and "Three Partings" are both famous poems. The long narrative poems "Song of Eternal Sorrow" and "Pipa Journey" represent his highest artistic achievements. Middle-aged people encounter setbacks in officialdom. "Since then, the career has been long-term, and the world has never been opened." But he still wrote many good poems and did many good things for the people. Hangzhou West Lake and Bai Causeway commemorate him. In his later years, he sent his feelings to the mountains and rivers, and also wrote some small characters. There is a poem for Liu Yuxi: "Don't listen to the old songs, but listen to the new word Yang Liuzhi. It can be seen that he has read some new words. Among them, Flowers Are Not Flowers is quite good.