Bai Juyi's life can be divided into two periods. In the early stage, the official career was smooth, the poems were full of positive spirit of joining the WTO, and in the later stage, because the poems exposed the darkness of reality, they were convicted of violating the powerful and were degraded, and the poems were full of sadness and showed their birth side. Throughout his life, Zheng Ru himself said: "He got his name because of his writing, and he was also convicted because of his writing."
Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846), a Han nationality, was also known as a Buddhist in Xiangshan in his later years. He was born in Xinzheng, Henan Province (now Xinzheng, Zhengzhou), a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty in China, and a poet and writer with a great reputation and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature. His poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and popular language, and are known as "Poet Magic" and "Poet King". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. There is a collection of Bai's Changqing handed down from generation to generation, and the representative poems are Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Trip and so on.
Song of Eternal Sorrow is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The whole poem vividly describes the love tragedy between Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. With the help of historical figures and legends, the poet created a moving story, and through the artistic image he created, he reappeared the truth of real life, infecting readers for thousands of years. The theme of the poem was "long hatred". This poem had a far-reaching influence on many literary works in later generations.