In the middle Tang Dynasty, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi were the representative schools of poetry. Their emphasis on realism is still popular today. They launched the New Yuefu Movement, emphasizing punishing evil and promoting good in poetry, making up for the function of current politics, and striving to be easy to understand in language. He took a completely different creative path from Han Meng's poetry school. A Qing poet Zhao Yi said: "Han, Meng, Yuan and Bai are the most important Tang poems in China. Han, Jing Meng, businessmen dare not speak; Yuan, white on Tan Yi, what the speaker wants. " On the surface, the two seem to run counter to each other, but the essence is innovation. Although the paths are different, they are all the same.
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The rise of Bai Yuan Poetry School;
Yuan Zhen clearly stated in Poems on "xianggong": "Zhen and Bai Juyi are friends, classmates love literature, because their elegance is poetry. He is extremely poor in rhyme, or a thousand words, or 500 poems, so as to send them to each other. I can't judge myself by others. I often play with old rhymes and don't invent new words, which are called secondary rhymes as a reward.
Between rivers and lakes, poets imitate each other and lack strength. As for the inversion of language, repetition and rhyme, etc. They are no different from the previous one, and they also call themselves Yuanhe style poems. Therefore, the so-called "Yuanhe Style" refers to Bai Yuan's long sentences, wine poems and romantic poems. In the minds of some poets at that time and later generations, it was these poems that made "Bai Yuan" a school of poetry and had an impact.