"Articles should be written for the times and poems should be written for things", which means that articles should be written for current events and poems should be written for reality. H: I think so. Bai Juyi believes that literary creation should not only reflect social life, but also be associated with the current political struggle and actively participate in life. "Time" and "things" actually refer to the country and the people, emphasizing the close relationship between literature and real life. This letter was written in the 10th year of Yuanhe (AD 8 15), when 44-year-old Bai Juyi was in Sima Ren, Jiangzhou. After more than ten years of officialdom turmoil, he was demoted to be a Sima in Jiangzhou. He experienced the heaviest blow in his life, mixed with grief and indignation, and his thoughts were inevitably contradictory and hesitant. At this time, he received Yuan Zhen, a good friend of Tongzhou Sima, and wrote this letter in a remote town in the cold winter.
Bai Juyi (772-846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, was born in Taiyuan, Lotte, Xiangshan, and drunk. 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, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.