Brief introduction of the author who sings chrysanthemums.
Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province (now xinzheng city, Zhengzhou, Henan Province), 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, which was called "Bai Yuan" by the world and "Bai Liu" by Liu Yuxi. Bai Juyi was born in Dongguo Village, Xinzheng, Henan Province (now Dongguo Temple Village, xinzheng city) in the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772). Bai Zu was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and Bai Juyi's great-grandfather moved to Xia 'ao (now Weinan, Shaanxi). Bai Juyi's grandfather, Huang Bai, was the county magistrate of Gongxian County (now gongyi city, Henan Province) and was friends with his neighbor Xinzheng County magistrate at that time. Seeing the beautiful scenery of Xinzheng Mountain, he moved. Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse 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. 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. Bai Juyi died in Luoyang in 846 AD and was buried in Xiangshan.