The writing background of "Yin on the Dusk River":
This landscape poem was written around the second year of Changqing in the Tang Dynasty (822). In July of this year, Bai Juyi was appointed as the governor of Hangzhou from Zhongshushe. He passed through Xiangyang and Hankou and arrived on October 1. This poem is considered to be on his way to Hangzhou. At that time, the government was dim and the party struggle between Niu and Li was fierce. The poet was familiar with the taste of officialdom and asked for a foreign post.
This poem reflects the poet's relaxed and happy mood after leaving the court. What I saw on the road, I chanted it casually, the style is fresh, natural and gratifying, and it gives people a beautiful enjoyment after reading it.
"Ode to the Dusk River" is a poem composed by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. This is a masterpiece of scenery. The poet chose two groups of scenery to describe from the time when the red sun sets in the west to the new moon rises in the east. He used novel and ingenious metaphors to create a harmonious and peaceful artistic conception. He expressed his inner feelings and love for nature through chanting. of love.
The language of the whole poem is clear and fluent, the style is fresh, the shadows and colors are vivid and detailed, and the subtlety of the scenery has always been praised. "Ode to the Dusk River" is one of Bai Juyi's "Miscellaneous Poems". The characteristic of these poems is that they can express their innermost feelings honestly and naturally through the chanting of one moment and one thing, with a smile and a chant.
Bai Juyi, whose courtesy name was Letian and later nicknamed Xiangshan Jushi and Mr. Zuiyin, was known as a great educator in the poetry world. His ancestral home is Taiyuan, Shanxi, and he was born in Xinzheng, Henan. He was a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty. He had precise articles and was especially good at writing poems. He was one of the most representative poets in the mid-Tang Dynasty. The work is so approachable that it is said that "an old woman can understand it".
Bai Juyi was actively engaged in political reform in his early years, cared about people's livelihood, advocated the New Yuefu Movement, and advocated that poetry creation cannot be divorced from reality, and must be based on real events and reflect the conditions of the times. He is one of the important leaders of practical literature after Du Fu.
Although he still cared about people's livelihood in his later years, due to political frustration, he often indulged in poetry and drinking, and wrote "The Biography of Mr. Zuiyin" to describe himself. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen are as famous as "Yuan Bai". The two are partners in the literary reform movement. In his later years, Bai Juyi sang many songs with Liu Yuxi and was known as "Liu Bai". He is known as the "Emperor of Poetry".
Bai Juyi's works have been widely circulated in all walks of life during the author's lifetime, and even in foreign countries, such as Silla, Japan and other places, and have had a great influence. Important poems include "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Preface to the Pipa Line", "Qin Zhongyin", "New Yuefu", etc., and important articles include "Nine Books of the Yuan Dynasty" and so on.