Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen were both famous poets in Tang Dynasty. Two people have very similar experiences, so they have a lot of the same language. At that time, both of them were born in a declining aristocratic family, but fortunately, they did not develop a lazy temper in the family. When they were young, they were very diligent. They took the imperial examinations together and worked together in imperial academy. It can be said that two people have been friends since childhood and later became colleagues.
However, due to special reasons at that time, Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen were exiled one after another. One was demoted to the wild land of Jingzhou, and the other was demoted to Jiangzhou for decades. Even if two people live apart, they will never forget their friendship. When the traffic conditions were inconvenient at that time, two people could keep writing letters for more than ten years, which showed that their friendship was very deep.
At that time, faced with the situation that they were down and out, they did not lose heart and chose letters to encourage each other. They once jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, which can be said to have contributed to the development of historical literature and the whole Tang Dynasty. At that time, Yuan Zhen was seriously ill, and he could still think of Bai Juyi before he died. I miss the past and wrote a poem for Bai Juyi. Eight years after Bai Juyi's death, he still thought about Yuan Zhen and his friendship. Thus, the affection between Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi is absolutely very deep. They not only make friends more like relatives.