This sentence comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's Farewell to Yuan Jiu, which was written in Yuan He 9, when Bai Juyi lived in Wei Village to mourn his mother.
Bai Juyi lived in Wei village for more than three years. He was poor, poor and sick, and his life was very difficult. At that time, Bai Juyi's good friend Yuan Zhen was also demoted to Jiangling. Both of them are in a bad situation, but even so, Yuan Zhen often takes out his salary to help Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi was deeply moved and wrote this poem to express his confession to Yuan Zhen.
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Bai Juyi was a talented and ambitious poet in ancient China. His name is Lotte and his ancestral home is Taiyuan. When his great-grandfather was born in Xinzheng, Henan, he moved to Xiaguan. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty.
Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu". Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets".
When Bai Juyi was an official, he was a bachelor of Hanlin and Zuo Zanshan was a doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan.
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