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. 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. Bai Juyi died in Luoyang in 846 AD and was buried in Xiangshan.
Bai Juyi was born in Xiayi (now Weinan, Shaanxi). In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, he was a scholar, and successively served as Zuo Shiyi, Doctor Zanshan in the East Palace, Sima in Jiangzhou, Secretariat of Suzhou in Hangzhou and Taifu. Bai Juyi is a great realistic poet. His poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language. His "Qin Zhongyin and New Yuefu" dares to face the abuses of those in power, reflects people's sufferings and profoundly exposes social contradictions. He was also the main advocate of the new Yuefu movement in the middle Tang Dynasty.
Bai Juyi's narrative poems such as Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Journey are exquisite, vivid and touching, with unique artistic style and extremely wide influence. In the theory of poetry creation, he put forward the views that "articles should be written in time" and "poems should be written for things". There are more than 3,000 existing poems, which are composed of Bai Changqing Collection.