1. The characteristics of the Yuanbai School of Poetry: emphasizing realism and favoring popularity, advocating that articles should be written according to the time, and songs and poems should be written according to the situation.
2. The Yuanbai School of Poetry refers to the Han and Meng School of Poetry and the later mid-Tang Dynasty poetry school represented by Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi. They emphasized realism and favored popularity. They launched the New Yuefu Movement, emphasizing the function of poetry in punishing evil and promoting good, and reviewing current affairs. In terms of language, they strived to be popular and easy to understand. This school of poets emphasizes realism and popularization, and takes a creative path completely different from that of the Han and Meng poetry schools. Zhao Yi, a native of the Qing Dynasty, said: "The poems of Han, Meng, Yuan and Bai are the most popular in the mid-Tang Dynasty. Han and Meng are very clever, and they can say what others dare not say; Yuan and Bai are frank and easy, and they can say what people want to say." ( "Oubei Shihua" Volume 4) On the surface, the two seem to be running in opposite directions, but in essence they are both innovations. Although they take different paths, they end up in the same direction.