1. Criticizing corrupt officials: Bai Juyi, as a scholar who was an official in the Tang Dynasty, often criticized those extravagant, vain and cruel bureaucrats in his poems. He believes that officials should be honest and loyal to the country and the people.
The core of Bai Juyi's poetry proposition is to require poetry to serve politics.
"Nine Books with the Same Yuan" said: "Servants often suffer from the collapse of poetry and Taoism, suddenly angry, or eat and eat, and sleep at night; If you don't measure your strength, you want to help it. " The so-called "poetic way" refers to the Confucian theory and requirements about poetry.
Bai Juyi's poetic thought is in the same strain as the orthodox Confucian poetic theory. Confucian poetics emphasized the political function and social significance of poetry from Confucius. Yang Huo, The Analects of Confucius, said: "Poetry can flourish, examine, group and complain. Your father is far away, and you know the names of birds, animals and plants better. " Its main purpose is to emphasize that poetry serves feudal politics and education. This has become the starting point of Confucian poetics.
2. Respect the beauty of nature: Bai Juyi's poems are full of love and praise for nature, such as the beauty of mountains and rivers and the vividness of flowers, birds, insects and fish. Bai Juyi not only described the magnificence and mystery of these natural beauty, but also expressed his understanding of natural beauty and advocated people to cherish natural resources and protect the ecological environment.
Bai Juyi's leisurely poems are not without masterpieces. For example, look at crops, from Shujiang to Dongting Lake mouth, You Wu Zhen Temple and so on. , or eating effortlessly, or caring about people's lives, or describing natural landscapes, are quite valuable. But there are a lot of mediocre works in leisure poems. Bai Juyi thinks that this kind of leisurely poem shows the meaning of "being alone in goodness" and equates it with satirical poetry. This is exactly where his realistic poetry is not fully advocated.
3. Philosophy of life: Bai Juyi, as an experienced and knowledgeable cultural person, has repeatedly expressed his views on life and philosophical thinking. He cares about human destiny, pursues human happiness and criticizes authority. He not only knows how to enjoy material life, but also cares about the development and improvement in the emotional and spiritual fields.