Bai Juyi's poem Birds

Bird is a seven-character quatrain written by Bai Juyi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, which is selected from the whole Tang poetry. This article will share an ancient poem "Birds" by Bai Juyi. Welcome to read!

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Year: Tang Dynasty

Author: Bai Juyi

Who knows that the life of a group is small, and it is generally flesh and blood.

I advise you not to pat a bird. My son will be in the nest waiting for his mother to come back.

Poetic:

Who says these birds have tiny lives and are as flesh and blood as all life? I advise you not to hit the bird on the branch. The bird is waiting in the nest for the mother bird to come back.

Main idea:

In his poems, the poet made an exhortation to persuade people to love birds, which showed the poet's kindness and kindness.

About the author:

Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan Province (now Xinzheng, Zhengzhou) in his later years. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty in China, a poet and writer with outstanding reputation and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature. His 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's former residence memorial hall is located in the suburb of Luoyang. Bai Yuan (the tomb of Bai Juyi) is located at Pipa Peak in Xiangshan, south of Luoyang.

The life of the character

be born in troubled times

Bai Juyi was born in the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772) in Xinzheng, Henan Province, a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, a war broke out in his hometown. Li Fanzhen is divided into more than ten states in Henan, and the people have suffered from 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, was first taught by Songzhou Division (780), a magistrate in Pengcheng County, Xuzhou. A year later, Bai and Li Yan, the secretariat of Xuzhou, insisted on Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to Xuzhou special driving. In order to avoid the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to Suzhou for a peaceful life. Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Suzhou R&F. Bai Juyi, on the other hand, was brilliant and studied so hard that his mouth was sore and his hands were calloused. Young, all white hair.

Official life

In 806, Bai Juyi went to school as a bookseller. In April of the same year, he was awarded the commandant of Guo County (now zhouzhi county). In 807, he served as an examiner of Jinshi and a captain of Jixian County, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in Hanlin. In 808, he was left to tidy up the body and welcomed Yang Yuqing's sister as his wife. In 8 10, he was transferred to the household department of Jingzhao House and joined the army. In 8 1 10, his mother Chen died, leaving Ding You behind and returning to her post. In 8 14, he returned to Chang' an and awarded Prince Zuo Zanshan as a doctor.

Bai Juyi thought that he had been appreciated and promoted by the emperor who liked literature, so he hoped to repay him by doing his duty as an official. So he wrote frequently and wrote many poems reflecting social reality, hoping to make up for the current situation and even point out the emperor's mistakes in person. Bai Juyi's words were accepted, but the directness of his words made Tang Xianzong feel unhappy and complained to Li Jiang: "Bai Juyi's boy praised me to the sky, but he was rude to me. I really can't stand it. " Li Jiang thought this was Bai Juyi's loyalty, and advised Xian Zong to be open and honest.

Be demoted to Jiangzhou

In 8 15, Prime Minister Wu was assassinated. Bai Juyi advocated severely punishing the murderer, which was considered to be ultra vires. Later, Bai Juyi was slandered: his mother fell into a well to see flowers and died, but Bai Juyi wrote poems about "appreciating flowers" and "new wells", which was detrimental to the famous religion. Therefore, on this basis, it was downgraded to

Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) Sima. In 8 18, Bai Juyi's younger brother Bai Xingjian went to Jiangzhou to see Bai Juyi. When Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Zhongzhou, Bai Xingjian also went upstream with his brother. On the way, I met Yuan Zhen in Huangniuxia. The place where the three of them swam together was called Sanyou Cave. During his tenure in Zhongzhou, Bai Juyi planted flowers on the hillside east of Zhongzhou, and named this place "Dongpo". [10] In the same winter, he was appointed as the secretariat of Zhongzhou (now Zhongxian County, Chongqing) and took office in August19. In the summer of 820, he was recalled to Chang 'an and served as a foreign minister of Shangshu Division.

Although Bai Juyi's mother died looking at flowers, Bai Juyi had many poems about flowers, and according to the records of the Song Dynasty, Xinjing poems were written around the first year of Yuanhe (Xinjing poems have been lost today), which shows that this matter cannot constitute a charge. The main reason for his demotion is probably related to his writing satires and offending those in power. Jiangzhou is a turning point in Bai Juyi's life: before that, he aimed at "helping the poor" and hoped to make useful contributions to the people of the whole country; Since then, his actions have gradually turned to "solitude". Although he still cares about the people, his actions have no spark of the past. However, although Bai Juyi was frustrated in Jiangzhou, he was able to live a peaceful life on the whole. He once built a thatched cottage in the north of Lushan incense burner peak and made friends with local monks.