Bai Juyi was born in Xinzheng, Zhengzhou. He has been very clever since he was a child. He studied poetry at the age of five or six, and was familiar with rhyme at the age of nine. 15, 16 years old, determined to learn and study hard, my mouth is sore and my elbow is sore. Twenty-nine years old, Jinshi Ji. At the same time, he was admitted to the "Excellent Book Judgment" with Yuan Zhen. This is where their engagement began. Later, they became famous in the poetry circle and were called "Bai Yuan". In the first year of Yuanhe (806), the proofreader was dismissed. In Yuanhe two years, he was sent to Jixian College of Science. 1 1 month, awarded the bachelor's degree of academician courtyard. The following year, I was awarded the left supplement. In five years, Cao, a resident of Jingzhao Prefecture, joined the army, all of whom remained as Hanlin's bachelor. Drafting imperial edicts and participating in state secrets. In the sixth year of Yuanhe, after serving his mother's funeral, Bai Juyi returned to Beijing as a doctor named Prince Zuo Zanshan. In the tenth year of Yuanhe, the separatist forces in the two rivers jointly rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and sent people to assassinate Wu, the prime minister who advocated the separatist regime in the region. Bai Juyi took the lead in getting rid of the murderer to avenge his country. However, he was attacked by corrupt bureaucratic forces for exceeding his authority, and fabricated the charge of "damaging the name of religion" and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. This is a heavy blow to him. In the thirteenth year of Yuanhe, he served as the secretariat of Zhongzhou. In fifteen years, he was recalled to Beijing, worshipped the minister of history as a foreign minister, moved to the doctor, studied the imperial edict, and entered the Chinese book to give up people. Due to state affairs, the cronies of the DPRK and China have been in conflict with each other and have repeatedly refused to listen. In the second year of Changqing (822), he requested to go abroad and go out to be the secretariat of Hangzhou. After that, I worked as a short-term Suzhou secretariat. When I was in Hangzhou, I built a lake embankment to store water and irrigate more than 1000 hectares of land. And dig six wells in the city to drink. On the day I left Suzhou, people in the county sent each other tears. In the first year of Emperor Wenzong Daiwa (827), he visited our company. The following year, he was transferred to assistant minister of punishments. Bai Juyi began to live in Luoyang at the age of 58. He has served as a distinguished guest such as Prince, Henan Yin, and Prince Shaofu. In the second year of Huichang (842), he became an official with the minister of punishments. In Luoyang, he lived a life of drinking, playing the piano, writing poems, traveling and "telling his family". He often sings with the famous poet Liu Yuxi and calls him "Bai Liu". In his comfortable old age, he still often thinks of the people. At the age of 73, he also invested in digging Longmen Bashi Beach to facilitate navigation. He died two years later. Buried at Pipa Peak in Xiangshan, Longmen. The poet Li Shangyin wrote an epitaph.
Bai Juyi left nearly 3000 poems in his life. He compared poetry to a fruit tree and put forward the famous argument of "root feeling, Miao language, Hua Yin and true meaning" (Yu Yuan Jiu Shu). Bai Juyi compiled several poems before his death, first named Bai Changqing Collection, and later renamed Bai Anthology. * * * Collected more than 3,800 poems into 75 volumes, and copied 5 books. The turmoil at the end of the Tang dynasty, the manuscripts scattered, once written and then written, is not the original appearance. The earliest extant white anthology is Shaoxing block print of Southern Song Dynasty (11~1162), with only 7 1 volume and more than 3,600 poems.