Poems written by Bai Juyi to Liu Yuxi

The poem written by Bai Juyi to Liu Yuxi is "Drunken Gifts to Twenty-eight Ambassadors of Liu".

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Original text:

You drank wine with me for me, drank wine with me, and we played chopsticks and sang songs together.

Although your poetry is first-class and can be called a national champion, it is doomed that you can't get it.

Dou Rong's eyes are decent, but you stay lonely for a long time. Full officials have their own satisfactory positions, but you are empty.

I also know that you should be very tired, but these 23 years have been too much loss.

Translation:

You raise your glass, fill it for me, and we'll drink it together. I will knock on the plate with chopsticks and sing a poem for you.

Even if your poem is the first in the country, it's useless. Life can't be helped, and there's nothing you can do if you can't get out.

Looking at others pays photogenic, only you have been lonely. All the civil servants in the Qing Dynasty were promoted, but you frequently encountered all kinds of misfortunes.

Your talent is too high, it is normal to suffer some setbacks, but 23 years of twists and turns, too many hardships.

Creative background:

In the second year of Tang Jingzong Baoli (826), Liu Yuxi left the state secretariat and returned to Luoyang. At the same time, Bai Juyi returned to Luoyang from Suzhou, and two poets met in Yangzhou. Bai Juyi wrote this song "Drunk with Twenty-eight Ambassadors" and gave it to Liu Yuxi.

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 was born in Dongguo Village, Xinzheng, Zhengzhou (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 himself was born in Xinzheng, Henan. He was buried in Luoyang, Henan Province after his death. The memorial hall of Bai Juyi's former residence is located in the suburb of Luoyang, and the White Garden (Bai Juyi's Tomb) is located in Pipa Peak in Xiangshan, south of Luoyang. 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". Officials of the ministers of punishments.