Poems in Tang and Song Dynasties edited by Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty gave a high evaluation of Bai Juyi's poems and works for everyone, and thought that Bai Juyi was "a real scholar of the world" and that officials should take Bai Juyi's poems as their motto.
Hu Shi praised the literary innovation movement led by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, and thought that poetry could create public opinion and help improve politics. Because Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi advocated the New Literature Movement, Bai Juyi's poems were highly respected under the atmosphere of advocating vernacular and not avoiding common words and sayings. Including Chen Yinque, Liu Dajie and Qian Jibo, all gave Bai Juyi a very high evaluation. However, Qian Zhongshu's evaluation of Bai Juyi is not high.
Bai Juyi's collected works are highly praised in Japan. Heian period and Sugawara no michizane wrote Chinese poems. At that time, when people in Bohai saw the true poems, they thought they were very similar to Bai Juyi's poems. This comment made Daozhen very happy and was specially recorded and proud.
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In the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772), Bai Juyi was born in Xinzheng, Henan Province, into a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, a war broke out in his hometown. Li Zhengji, a buffer region, divided more than ten states in Henan, and the people were devastated by the war. When Bai Juyi was two years old, Ren Gongxian's grandfather died in Chang 'an, followed by his grandmother.
Bai Juyi's father, Bai Jigeng, was first awarded the county magistrate of Pengcheng County, Xuzhou (78) by the Songzhou secretary. One year later, Bai Jigeng and Xuzhou secretariat Li Yan insisted on Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to a different driving position in Xuzhou. In order to avoid the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to live in Fu Li, Suzhou.
Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Fuli, Suzhou. Bai Juyi, on the other hand, was brilliant and studied very hard, so that his mouth was sore and his hands were calloused. At a young age, his hair was all white.