The background of "Pipa Xing" is:
In June of the 10th year of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty (815), assassins sent by the Tang Dynasty feudal towns stabbed Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng to death on the streets of Chang'an, stabbing There was an uproar between the government and the public when Pei Du, the censor's chief minister, made further demands for the removal of Pei Du from the forces of the vassal town in order to pacify the vassal town's "rebellious" intentions.
Bai Juyi advocated the strict arrest of the murderer, and was suspected of "exceeding his duties". He also wrote many satirical poems, which offended the powerful officials in the court, so he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. Sima was the assistant to the governor. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, most "criminal" officials were specially placed, which was a disguised form of distribution.
This incident had a great impact on Bai Juyi and was a turning point in his ideological changes. From then on, his early fighting spirit gradually faded away and his negative emotions increased day by day. In the autumn of the 11th year of Yuanhe (816), Bai Juyi was bidding farewell to his guests at the head of the Xunyang River. He happened to meet a Chang'an advocate who played the pipa, and used this as the theme to create this long narrative poem "Pipa Xing".
Appreciation of the whole poem:
This is a popular realist masterpiece. The full text uses characters as clues to describe both the life experience of the Pipa girl and the poet's feelings. The two sentences "We are both fallen people at the end of the world" converge. The tragic experience of the singer is written very concretely, which can be regarded as an overt line; the poet's emotions permeate between the lines, and ripple with the music played by the pipa girl and the constant changes in her life experience, which can be regarded as a hidden line.
This light and dark, one reality and one imaginary, makes the plot ups and downs. The story it narrates is tortuous and touching, the emotions it expresses can arouse people's emotions, the language is beautiful but not flashy, precise but not obscure, the content is close to life but has broad social nature, and it is both elegant and popular.