As the name implies, are Bai Juyi's poems really so easy to understand?

First of all, Bai Juyi's name has nothing to do with the simplicity of poetry. His name is a sentence that his grandfather found in The Doctrine of the Mean: "So, a gentleman can wait for his life, and a villain can take risks and get lucky." Obviously, he hopes that his grandson can be a modest gentleman, and he also hopes that he will wait for the fate safely and smoothly. Therefore, judging from the origin of this name, his grandfather did not give him a proposition composition, and writing poems and articles must be easy to understand.

But most of Bai Juyi's poems are really easy to understand, which is actually the result of Bai Juyi's deliberate pursuit. He was one of the advocators of the "New Yuefu Movement" in the mid-Tang literary world. The so-called New Yuefu Movement was actually advocated by poets Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji, Li Shen and others in the Tang Dynasty. They advocated restoring the collection system of ancient poems, carrying forward the tradition of satirizing current events in the Book of Songs and Yuefu in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and creating poems.

Their so-called new Yuefu is relative to Han Yuefu. Their creations are mainly self-created themes, mainly aiming at current affairs comments at that time. It is precisely because they strengthen the function of satirizing current events in poetry. In order to spread easily, it is necessary to increase the popularity and conciseness of poetry. Bai Juyi has made great efforts in this respect, and straightforwardness is also the realm that Bai Juyi has been pursuing. He always writes poems, and if rural women don't understand, he will read them to them.

Not only Bai Juyi, but also the poems of several representative poets of the New Yuefu Movement are simple and straightforward, such as Yuan Zhen's "Chrysanthemum is not preferred among flowers, and this flower has no flowers", "Palace maids have long hair, arguing about Xuanzong's grand occasion", "It is difficult for the sea to touch water, and it will always be amber", "This is a sorrow that all mankind must know, but it is not known to those who have shared poverty" and Li Shen's "A drop in the spring" There is no waste of heaven and earth, and the toiling peasants are still starving to death. At noon in summer, the sun is very hot, farmers are still working, and beads are dripping into the soil. Who knows that every Chinese food is hard ","There is no season when flowers bloom and fall, and there is a basis for the arrival of spring "; There is also Zhang Ji's poem "Returning tears to pearls, wishing we could not meet before marriage", and the poems of the new Yuefu poets represented by them are actually relatively simple and straightforward.