One of the guardians of the Demon Hero, the Demon - Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (772-846), the word Lotte, the late name Xiangshan monk, Mr. Drunken Yin, and the title of the master of the vast number of education. His ancestral home is Taiyuan, Shanxi, and he is a descendant of the Qiuzi royal family.

Born in Xinzheng, Henan, he was a literary scholar of the Tang Dynasty, who was particularly good at writing poetry, and was one of the most representative poets in the Tang Dynasty.

The work is approachable, and even has the saying that "the old woman can understand".

In his early years, Bai Juyi was actively engaged in political reform, cared for the people's livelihood, advocated the New Yuefu Movement, and advocated that poetry creation should not be separated from reality, but must be based on real events and reflect the conditions of the times.

Although he still did not change his heart of caring for the people's livelihood in his later years, due to his political discouragement, he often indulged in poetry and wine, and wrote "The Biography of Mr. Drunken Yin" to improve his own situation.

Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhi are equally famous, called "Yuan Bai", and the two are partners in the literary innovation movement. In his later years, Bai Juyi sang a lot of harmony with Liu Yuxi, and was known as "Bai Liu".

Bai Juyi's works have been widely circulated in all parts of society and all walks of life during the author's lifetime, and even in foreign countries, such as Silla and Japan, and have had a great influence. Important poems include "Song of Long Hatred", "Pipa Xing and Preface", "Qin Zhongyin", "Xin Yuefu", etc., and important articles include "Nine Books with Yuan".

Bai Juyi, the main advocate of the New Yuefu Movement in the Middle and Tang Dynasty, one of the three great poets of the Tang Dynasty, is the inheritor of the realist tradition. If you advocate that you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone.

Bai Juyi (the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and later migrated to Yuezhong, Quzhou, Fuli, Xiangyang, Luoyang, Chang'an and other places due to war and other factors.

When he was young, his family was poor, and he had more contact and understanding of social life and the sufferings of the people. In 787, Bai Juyi went to Chang'an to visit the celebrities at that time.

When he saw Bai Juyi's name, he once jokingly said, "The price of rice is expensive, and it is easy to live." It wasn't until he saw his psalms that he exclaimed, "The Word is a word." It's easy to live in. 」

Year 799. Bai Juyi began to devote himself to scientific research. In 800, he entered the rank of scholar and then returned to his hometown to visit relatives. In 802, he tried to pull out the Cui Ke and the first, and betrothed with the Yuan Zhi who was at the same time and the first, and became a lifelong friend. In 803, he was awarded the secretary of the provincial school. Settled in Chang'an.

Works: "Farewell to the Ancient Grass" and "Hundred Judgments"

Year 806. Bai Juyi strikes the school scholar. In April of the same year, he tried to learn and learn from the Department of Physical Use. and first, awarded the lieutenant of Xuyu County (now Zhouzhi County).

In 807, he was appointed as an examiner of Jinshi and a school manager of Jixian. Conferred a bachelor's degree. In 808, he was appointed to pick up the relics of the left and welcomed Yang Yuqing from his sister as his wife. In 810, he was reappointed to the household department of Jingzhao Prefecture to join the army, and in 811, his mother Chen died, leaving Ding Wei and returning to Xiatai. In 814, he returned to Chang'an and awarded the crown prince Zuo Zanshan as a doctor.

When Ren Zuo picked up the relics, Bai Juyi thought that he was appreciated and promoted by the emperor who liked literature, so he hoped to repay the kindness of his acquaintance with the duty of a speaker, so he frequently wrote books and wrote a large number of poems that reflected social reality, hoping to make up for the current affairs and even point out the emperor's mistakes in person.

Bai Juyi's words and deeds were mostly accepted, but his direct words made Tang Xianzong feel unhappy and complained to Li Xun: "Bai Juyi's boy, I was promoted to a famous position, and I was rude to me, and I really can't help it. Li Xun thought that this was Bai Juyi's loyalty, and persuaded Xianzong to speak widely.

Works: "Celin", "Song of Long Hatred", "Qin Zhongyin", "Xin Yuefu", "Self-chanting and Clumsy Shiyin"

In 815, Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was assassinated, and Bai Juyi advocated 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 "Flower Appreciation" and "New Well", which are harmful to famous teaching.

On this ground, he was demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). In the winter of 818, he was appointed as the assassin of Zhongzhou (now Zhongxian County, Chongqing), and arrived in 819. In the summer of 820, he was recalled to Chang'an and served as a doorman of the Shangshu Division.

Although Bai Juyi's mother died because she fell into a well while watching flowers, Bai Juyi had already written many works of singing flowers, and according to the records of the Song Dynasty, Arai poems were written around the first year of Yuan He (Arai poems are now lost), which shows that this matter cannot constitute a crime.

The main reason for his disparagement is probably related to the fact that he offended the authorities by writing satirical works. The denigration of Jiangzhou was a turning point in Bai Juyi's life: before that, he was determined to "help the people", hoping to make a beneficial contribution to the people of the country, and then his actions gradually turned to "being good to himself", although he still cared for the people, the actions he showed no longer had the spark of the past.

However, although Bai Juyi was unsuccessful in Jiangzhou, he was still able to live comfortably in general, and once built a thatched cottage in the north of Lushan incense burner Peak, and traveled with local monks.

In 818, Bai Juyi's younger brother Bai Xingjian went to Jiangzhou to meet Bai Juyi. When Bai Juyi was appointed as the assassin of Chungju, Bai Xingjian also traveled up the river with his brother.

On the way, he met with Yuan Zhi in the Yellow Cow Gorge, and the place where the three of them traveled together was called the Sanyou Cave. During his tenure in Chungju, Bai Juyi planted flowers on the hillside east of Chungju and named the place "Dongpo".

Works: "After Reading Li Du's Poetry Collection Because of the Title Volume", "The Book of Yuan Jiu", "Visiting the Old Mansion of Tao Gong and Preface", "Compiling a Collection of Clumsy Poems into 15 Volumes of Yuan Jiu and Li 20 Due to the End of the Title Volume", "Pipa Xing", "Preface to the Tour of Dalin Temple", "The Story of the Grass Hall", "The Book of Wei", "The Tomb of Li Bai", "The Preface to the Three Tours of the Cave", "Planting Flowers on the Eastern Slope"

In the winter of 820, he was transferred to the main guest Langzhong and the Zhizhi system. In 821, Dr. Jia Chaosan began to officially wear the five-grade silk court clothes, (緋色 is 硃色, which is the color of clothing used by officials above the fifth grade. Transferred to the Pillar Kingdom, and then to the Middle Scholars.

In 822, Bai Juyi wrote a book on the military affairs of Hebei at that time, which was not adopted, so he asked to serve in other places, and was appointed as the assassin of Hangzhou in July, and arrived in October. During his tenure, he made achievements such as building the West Lake embankment and dredging six wells.

In May 824, he was appointed as the prince's left concubine in the eastern capital, went to Luoyang in the autumn, and bought a house in Luoyang. In 825, he was appointed as the Assassin of Suzhou, and arrived in May. In 826, he left his post due to illness, and later accompanied Liu Yuxi to visit Yangzhou and Chuzhou.

During his tenure in Hangzhou, he saw that there were six ancient wells in Hangzhou that were in disrepair for a long time, so he presided over the dredging of six wells to solve the drinking water problem of Hangzhou people. Seeing that the West Lake was silted up and the farmland was dry, so the embankment was built to store the lake water, so as to facilitate irrigation and alleviate the harm caused by the drought, and made the "Qiantang Lake Stone Record", which carved the policies, methods and precautions for the control of the lake water and placed the stone on the edge of the lake for future generations to know, which had a great impact on the later management of the lake in Hangzhou.

Before leaving office, Bai Juyi left a sum of official money in the state treasury as a fund for the official turnover of officials who later governed Hangzhou, and later made up the original amount. When this fund operated until the Huangchao Rebellion, when Huangchao arrived in Hangzhou, many documents were burned and scattered, and the fund disappeared.

Now there is a white embankment in the West Lake, and there are willows planted on both banks, and later generations mistakenly say that this is the embankment built by Bai Juyi, and it is called the white embankment. In fact, this "white causeway" existed before Bai Juyi came to Hangzhou, and it was called "white sand embankment" at that time, and it can be seen in Bai Juyi's poems.

When Bai Juyi was in Hangzhou, Yuan Zhi was also transferred from the prime minister to the observer of eastern Zhejiang, and eastern Zhejiang and Hangzhou were not too far apart, so there were many return poems between the two.

When Bai Juyi left Hangzhou at the end of his term, Yuan Zhen asked Bai Juyi to hand over all his works and compile them into fifty volumes of "Bai's Changqing Collection".

During his tenure in Suzhou, Bai Juyi dug a mountain pond river seven miles long from Tiger Hill in the west to Kaimen in the east in order to facilitate Suzhou's water and land transportation, and built a road in the north of the Shantang River, called "Qili Shantang", referred to as "Shantang Street".

Works: "Jianglou Sunset Greeting Guests", "The Story of the Cold Spring Pavilion", "The Story of the Stone of Qiantang Lake", "Since I arrived in the county, only after ten days, the party is dedicated to official business, and has not yet had a banquet and tour. Sneaking away the twenty-four rhymes of the pen inscription, and sending it to Changzhou Jiashe people, Huzhou Cui Langzhong, still presenting Wuzhong guests", "to the wine". (To be continued......)