Bai Juyi once divided his poems into four categories, and his Songs of Everlasting Sorrow were classified into sentimental poems.
Bai Juyi once divided his poems into four categories: allegorical poems, leisure poems, sentimental poems, and miscellaneous poems. Bai Juyi once divided his poems into four categories: allegory, leisure, sentimentality and miscellany. Generally speaking, the first three categories are archaic and the latter are modern. The first three categories are roughly distinguished by content, but they overlap. Among the four categories of poems, Bai himself paid more attention to the first two categories.
According to his account, the allegorical poems were collected by him on his own. Whatever he found suitable and felt about beauty, stimulation and comparison, he also created the title of Xin Yuefu from the time of Wude to Yuanhe. "Leisure poems are those who either retreat from work and live alone, or move away from illness and live in leisure, contented and peaceful, and sing about playful nature"; sentimental poems are "things are drawn from the outside, emotions and reasons are moved inside, and are shaped by sighs as they meet." ; Miscellaneous verse poems are "five-character, seven-character, long sentences, quatrains, from one hundred rhymes to two rhymes"
In general, the first three categories are ancient style poems, and the last category are modern style poems; The categories are roughly divided by content, but there are also overlaps among these four categories of poems. Bai Juyi himself paid more attention to allegorical poems and leisure poems.
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow is composed of seven-character poems.
"Song of Everlasting Regret" is a long narrative poem written by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The twelve sentences are the first paragraph, describing the love life and consequences of love between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang, as well as the resulting chaos of the country and the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion.
From "The smoke and dust in the Jiuchong City Tower" to. The last 42 sentences of "The soul never comes to dream" are the second paragraph, describing the Maweiyi mutiny, the murder of Concubine Yang, and the fact that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty longed for Concubine Yang day and night, and had unwavering affection from "Linqiong Taoist Hongdu." From "Guest" to "This hatred lasts forever", the last forty-six sentences are the third paragraph, describing the situation when Tang Xuanzong sent people to heaven and earth to search for Yang Guifei and Yang Guifei met Tang Xuanzong's envoy in Penglai Palace.