In 829 AD, Yuan Zhi passed through Luoyang and met Bai Juyi. At the time of parting, the two were drunk, and Bai Juyi wrote for Yuan Zhen:
Fengtou Gorge mouth Qian Tang Bank, three farewells after 20 years.
And the muscles and bones are all alive, don't be afraid of the sideburns. However, no one thought that Yuan Zhen, who had white hair and healthy muscles and bones, would die of a violent illness.
When the bad news reached Bai Juyi, he was instantly struck by lightning, and tears rained down. Soon, Yuan Zhen's corpse was transported back to Xianyang, and the 59-year-old Bai Juyi endured his grief and personally wrote an epitaph for his close friend.
After Bai Juyi settled in Luoyang, he called himself "Xiangshan Jushi", he wrote in "Xiuxiangshan Temple": "Yu Zao and the late Yuan Xiangguo Wei decided to make friends between life and death, and meditated on the occasion of cause and effect. "It is an agreement between two people to find Yuan Zhen in the afterlife. One said, "In the next life, you should not be drunk."One said, the promise of a gentleman, the horse is difficult to chase.
Although the white-haired Bai Juyi still writes poems and drinks, watches flowers and admires the scenery, but now there is no Yuan Zhen, and he is desolate and lonely everywhere.
Jun buried the mud under the spring, and I sent the world full of snow. "A poem "Dream of Micro" writes the helplessness in Bai Juyi's heart: You are stable underground, but you leave me alone, spending time in the world, who knows the pain in my heart, and who I confide in my pain.
Yuan Zhen said goodbye, the mountains and rivers flowed, and there was no acquaintance. In the "Historical Records", it is said: "One death and one life is friendship." One poor and one rich, it is to know the attitude, one is expensive and one is cheap, and friendship is to see. "Although life comes and goes, and lovers go to tea and cool, but Yuanbai's love begins with like-mindedness, experiences life and death, and finally does not forget the sincerity of love.
Knowing each other and borrowing from each other is not negative, only this life keeps the flow of years. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, in the way of poets, left us a story through the ages. You were born in Luoyang, and I was buried in Xiangshan, and there is nothing more than this.