Bai Juyi's experience of being demoted: In the tenth year of Yuanhe (815), Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was assassinated. Bai Juyi advocated the strict arrest of the murderer, which was considered to be overstepping his duties. Later, Bai Juyi was slandered again: his mother fell into a well and died while looking at flowers, but Bai Juyi wrote poems about "flower appreciation" and "new well", which was harmful to famous religion. So he used this as an excuse to be demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi).
Bai Juyi, also known as Xiangshan Jushi, also known as Mr. Zuiyin, was originally from Taiyuan. He moved to Xiagui at the time of his great-grandfather and was born in Xinzheng, Henan. He was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, known as "Yuan Bai" in the world, and "Liu Bai" together with Liu Yuxi. Extended information
Bai Juyi was a great poet who had great influence in the mid-Tang Dynasty. His poetic ideas and poetry creation, with his outstanding emphasis and full expression of popularity and realism, occupied an important place in the history of Chinese poetry. status.
Bai Juyi's leisurely poetry has a great influence on future generations. His simple and plain language style and indifferent and leisurely mood have been repeatedly praised. However, in comparison, the expressions expressed in these poems His "leisurely" thoughts of retreating from politics, being content and maintaining peace, and his life attitude of following the Buddha and the Elders, and imitating Tao Yuanming, are more consistent with the psychology of later generations of literati, so their influence is even more profound.
"Pipa Song" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" are Bai Juyi's most successful works. The outstanding feature of their artistic expression is the strengthening of lyrical factors.
Compared with previous narrative poems, although these two works also use narration and description to express events, they simplify the events to the extreme, using only one central event and two or three main characters. The entire structure of the novel, such as the dramatic Mawei Incident, is covered by the author in just a few strokes. However, in terms of the most lyrical description of the character's psychology and the rendering of the environment and atmosphere, he splashes ink like rain in order to enjoy it.
Even a work like "Pipa Play", which focuses more on the imitation of music sounds and the narration of character encounters, uses emotion to closely connect sounds and events. The sounds follow the emotions, and the emotions follow the events. The process of poetry is always accompanied by moving emotional power. In addition, the lyricism of these two works is also reflected in the use of selected images to create the appropriate atmosphere and enhance the artistic conception of the poems.
For example, in "Song of Everlasting Regret", "I feel sad when I see the moon in the palace, and I hear the sound of broken bells in the night rain", and in "Pipa Tour", "Maple leaves and flowers rustle in autumn", "The vast river is soaked in the moon when we say goodbye" and other poems , or combine the cold moonlight, pattering night rain, and heartbreaking ringtones into an ecstatic scene.
Or the rustling maple leaves, dill flowers and the vast river moon form a sad and lonely picture. The desolate, sentimental and melancholy mood revealed in it colors all the characters and events in the poem, and also makes readers Facing such artistic conception and atmosphere, my heart is shaken and I can't help myself.
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