What is the highest value in Bai Juyi's poems?

Bai Juyi wrote many poems in his life, and he was the poet with the most works in the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 3,000 poems that have been handed down to this day. Bai Juyi once divided his poems into four categories: satire, leisure, sentimentality and miscellaneous law. He is the most proud and valuable himself. These satirical poems are consistent with his political ambition of being good at the world, and they are also the practice of his realistic poetry theory. Among them, 50 New Yuefu and 10 Qin Zhongyin are organized and planned masterpieces. They are really "all articles are empty, every sentence must be followed", with high popularity and rich realistic content. His satirical poems mainly include two aspects: first, they widely reflect the sufferings of the people. Among them are works that sympathize with farmers, such as Du Lingcuo; There are also elegies lamenting the fate of women, such as "Shang Yang White-haired Man" and "harem Ci". The second is to deeply expose the sins of the rulers, such as "selling charcoal weng" and "red carpet". Bai Juyi believes that poetry should reflect social reality. He said that "articles are written in time, and songs and poems are written for things" is what he meant. A large number of satirical poems created by Bai Juyi had a great influence at that time and were widely praised by people.

Among sentimental poems, the most famous ones are Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Travel. Song of Eternal Sorrow is one of the most famous narrative poems in the history of China literature. The first half of this poem satirizes Tang's dissoluteness and ruthlessness, and the second half writes Tang's profound lovesickness with sympathetic strokes. In this way, the theme of poetry changed from criticizing to praising the loyal and single-minded love between Tang and Yang Guifei. However, there is still irony in praise and sympathy. This is a long poem with two themes, which has made great artistic achievements, especially in the second half, greatly enhancing the expressive force of the poem. Vivid characters, beautiful language and intonation, lyrical scenery and narration are also the artistic characteristics of Song of Eternal Sorrow.

Pipa Travel is a famous work in China cultural circle. Although this poem has a strong sentimental meaning, it is more realistic than Song of Eternal Sorrow. The poet not only expressed sympathy for the tragic fate of the pipa girl "fewer horses and chariots in front of the door and eventually married a merchant", but also pinned her melancholy and resentment on her relegation. "We are not happy-until the end of the day, we met. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? " Poems passed down through the ages have closely linked the fate of pipa girls with their own life experiences. This poem has distinct narrative levels, detailed and vivid description, novel and exquisite metaphor, which has been praised by scholars in past dynasties, and the poetic language has indeed reached a perfect realm.

An important feature of Bai Juyi's poems is that the language is concise and clear. According to legend, every time he finished writing a poem, he would read it to some illiterate old mothers in person, asking for their opinions and seeing if they could understand it. Only when they all understand, Bai Juyi is satisfied. Because of this, his poems were widely circulated at that time and became household names.