What is the whole article of Bai Juyi's "A hundred schools of thought are like a chess game, and Twelve Streets are like vegetable fields"?

Dengguanyintai Wangcheng

Tang Bai Juyi

Hundreds of families are like a game of Go, and twelve streets are like vegetable fields.

In the distant firelight, a star with five doors points to the west.

Interpretation of the poem: It tells the story that the distribution of hundreds of families in Chang 'an City is like a chessboard, and twelve streets divide the city into neat vegetable fields. From a distance, you can see the torches played by court officials, like a string of stars near the gate of Daming Palace.

Extended data:

Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, various forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan.

Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.

The early period is the period of helping the world, and the later period is the period of being independent. Bai Juyi was a scholar at the age of 29 in the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan (800), and served as secretary of the provincial school, secretary of the provincial school and academician.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he stayed as a scavenger and wrote a large number of satirical poems, including "Ten Poems from the Qin Dynasty" and "Fifty Poems from New Yuefu", which made the dignitaries gnash their teeth and grieve.

In the sixth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi's mother died in Chang 'an because of mental disorder. According to the rules at that time, Bai Juyi returned to his hometown for three years and returned to Chang 'an after the funeral. The emperor arranged for him to be a doctor.

References:

Bai Juyi-Baidu Encyclopedia