Origin:
The phrase "when an article is written, songs and poems are written in things" was put forward by Bai Juyi, and this phrase comes from Bai Juyi's Nine Books with Yuan Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi put forward his own literary proposition: "Articles are written for the times and poems are written for things." His poetic thoughts are mainly about the creation of early fable poems.
The creative background of Nine Books of Jade Yuan;
This letter was written in the 10th year of Yuanhe (AD 8 15), when 44-year-old Bai Juyi was in Sima Ren, Jiangzhou. After more than ten years of officialdom turmoil, he was demoted to be a Sima in Jiangzhou, and experienced the heaviest blow in his life. His heart is full of indignation and sadness, and his thoughts are inevitably contradictory and hesitant.
At this time, I received Yuan Zhen, a good friend of Tongzhou Sima at that time, "Narrating Poems and Sending Music Day". I'm thinking, and I feel it. I wrote this long letter with rich content and sincere feelings in a remote town in the cold winter.
About the author:
Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".
Both Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen advocated new Yuefu poems, which were called "Bai Yuan" by the world. The poetry creation of the New Yuefu Movement practiced the above theoretical proposition. The Yuefu poems of Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji and Jincon reflect the extremely broad social life in the middle Tang Dynasty, reveal the social contradictions that existed at that time from various aspects, and put forward extremely acute social problems.
In his later years, Bai Juyi was made a prince, and posthumous title was a white father and a white man. He actively advocated the new Yuefu movement in literature, arguing that "articles should be written in time and poems should be written for things". He wrote many poems lamenting the times and reflecting the sufferings of the people, which had a great influence on later generations. He is a very important poet in the history of China literature.