Are you curious about who the great poet Bai Juyi's first love is? Why did he marry a wife at the age of 37? And why does he like to tease his friend's woman? He also lent Ai Ji to his poet Yuanzhi?
He even kept hundreds of female prostitutes? Reading this article may be able to answer these questions for you and take you to explore Bai Juyi's wonderful life.
Taiyuan Jin Ancestral Hall, the famous spring of the land of the Three Jin Dynasty, contains the charm of thousands of years of history. Bai Juyi (772 846), the word Lotte, the name of Xiangshan layman, also known as Mr. Drunken Yin.
He was a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, and together with Yuan Zhen, he advocated the Xin Yuefu Movement, and was known as "Yuan Bai". Bai Juyi's poems are rich in content, changeable in form, and easy to understand in language, which are deeply loved by people, so he is known as "Poetry Demon" and "Poetry King".
His official positions were Bachelor Da Hanlin and Dr. Zuo Chan Shan, and he devoted his life to poetry.
In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan, and his work "Bai's Changqing Collection" has been handed down to this day, among which "Song of Long Hatred", "Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Xing" and so on are his most famous masterpieces.
Bai Juyi: Born in the chaos of war, outstanding talent Bai Juyi was born in a Confucian family, in the first month of the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty (772 AD). At that time, more than a dozen prefectures in Henan were divided by the feudal town of Li Zhengji, and the war was continuous, and the people were struggling to make a living.
When Bai Juyi was two years old, his grandfather died in Chang'an, and soon his grandmother also died. At the age of eight, his father, Bai Jigeng, was appointed as the county magistrate of Pengcheng County, Xuzhou.
A year later, because Bai Jigeng and Li Wei, the assassin of Xuzhou, had made meritorious contributions to Xuzhou, his father was promoted to Xuzhou Commander.
In order to escape the war, Bai Juyi's father sent his family to Fuli, Suzhou. Bai Juyi is very smart, diligent and studious, reading and reading sores on his tongue, calloused palms, and full of white hair, becoming a well-known "little showman".
In the third year of Zhenyuan (787 AD), sixteen-year-old Bai Juyi wrote his famous work "Farewell to the Ancient Grass": leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered. Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate.
Yuanfang invaded the ancient road, and the clear green connected the deserted city. He sent Wang Sun to go, and he was full of farewell.
Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, the night comes, the dawn goes, come like a spring dream, go to the clouds and nowhere to find. Although he was ecstatic about this relationship, he was also a little stunned, knowing that if his family found out, the consequences would be unimaginable.
However, the paper couldn't contain the fire, and the white mother still found out about it.
A fifteen-year-old girl, more beautiful than a fairy, her name is Xiang Ling. Her relationship with Bai Juyi was strongly opposed by Bai Juyi's mother. Bai Mu believes that Xiang Ling is from the countryside, and his family is a scholarly family, and the marriage that is right is the most suitable.
In order to stop the development of this relationship, Bai Mu let Bai Juyi go out to study and separated from Xiangling. On the day of parting, Bai Juyi wrote "Diving Farewell" for Xiangling: "You can't cry, you can only leave me quietly;
You can't speak, you can only miss me silently;
No one knows our story except you and me......In the following days, Bai Juyi missed Xiangling and wrote many poems, such as "Sending Far Away": "I want to forget you, but I can't;
I want to leave you, but I can't find a reason.
Xiangling became the pain in Bai Juyi's heart, his longing was like a cinnabar mole deeply imprinted in his heart, and like the white moonlight in front of the bed, although it was beautiful, it was out of reach.
The friendship between Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen began in the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, and the two were admitted to the Jinshi together and became lifelong friends. Their friendship was deep, they shared the same ideas, and their correspondence was close and affectionate.
Their poetic talents are outstanding, and together they have written many touching poems. They advocated the restoration of the song collection system, carried forward the tradition of the Book of Poetry and the Han Yuefu satirical current affairs, and promoted the poetic innovation of "Yuan and style" centered on the creation of new Yuefu poems.
Their friendship is as strong as a stone, and they will never leave each other, which is a model of growing old together.
The story of Bai Juyi and Guan Panpan's relationship took place in the twentieth year of Zhenyuan (804 AD), when Bai Juyi had already become famous in the literary world, and Zhang Su, the assassin of Xuzhou, set up a banquet for him in the "Swallow Tower" on the shore of Yunlong Lake.
At the banquet, Guan Panpan sang Bai Juyi's masterpiece "Farewell to the Ancient Grass", and danced her best "Neon Dress and Feather Dance".
Bai Juyi was deeply attracted by Guan Panpan's beauty and talent, so he wrote a poem for her, using "The phoenix dials the golden feathers, and the sandalwood groove is draped."
Drunk and delicate, the wind is full of peony flowers" to describe her style and beauty, and praise her as the peony of the king of flowers. This made Guan Panpan leave a deep impression in Bai Juyi's heart.
Later, Zhang Su died, and Guan Panpan chose to live alone in Yanzilou and decided to observe the festival for her husband.
This spring, a guest returned to Luoyang, and he went to the tomb of Shangshu; Seeing that the poplar can be used as a pillar, the red powder of the religion is not ashes. In this poem, Bai Juyi accused Guan Panpan of being inferior to even a basic chaste martyr, and would rather starve to death than be buried.
After Guan Panpan heard this poem, she felt greatly insulted and hurt, so she decided to go on a hunger strike, and finally starved to death. Bai Juyi's poems became the catalyst for Guan Panpan's death.
Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhi were promoted at the same time and were awarded different official positions by the imperial court. Bai Juyi once wanted to return to his hometown to marry Xiangling, but was resolutely opposed by his mother. In the same year, Bai Juyi created "Song of Long Hatred", using historical figures and legends to create a moving love story and metaphor for his own love tragedy.
Soon after, Bai Juyi was forced to marry Yang Yuqing's sister.
Bai Juyi's poems reflected the hardships of the people's livelihood and the shortcomings of social reality, exposing the maladministration and the ugliness of the powerful, which made the powerful deeply hate.
Although his words and deeds were accepted, his outspoken attitude also made Tang Xianzong feel displeased. However, Bai Juyi's loyalty was finally understood and supported by Prime Minister Li Jiang.
In March of the fourth year of Yuanhe (809), the 31-year-old Yuan Shu was promoted to supervise the imperial history and sent an envoy to Dongchuan. He had long heard the name of Xue Tao, the first beautiful poet in Shu, and as soon as he arrived in Shu, he couldn't wait to ask her to meet in Zizhou.
Xue Tao is a musician, extremely smart, outstanding in poetry, and both talented and beautiful. The two fell in love at first sight, "on the amphibious green pond, flying back together at dusk". Yuan Zhi once drank with Xue Tao and Bai Juyi's poems, enjoying a fairy-like time.
Xue Tao's alluring mature style made Bai Juyi salivate. After Yuan Zhi left Xue Tao to take up his post in Luoyang, Bai Juyi actually wrote a poem "With Xue Tao": "Mount Emei is connected to the clouds, and I want to chase Liu Lang from this road; If it seems to be easy to reach in the middle of the river, the spring breeze is still separated by Wuling Creek."
Bai Juyi's poem actually implies that he has an disrespectful desire for his friend's woman, and the meaning of asking for pleasure from him is really incredible.
Mount Emei is high and connected to the sky, and the clouds and mist make people get lost. In the fifth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi joined the army as the Hucao of Jingzhao Mansion, and continued to serve as a bachelor of Hanlin, responsible for drafting edicts and participating in state politics.
In the sixth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi's mother died tragically in Chang'an, and he returned to his hometown to guard filial piety for three years. After the mourning, he returned to the capital at the edict and was appointed as the crown prince Zuo Zanshan's doctor.
The social atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, and many ** families were accompanied by courtesans. Bai Juyi is no exception, after serving as a bachelor of Hanlin, he also raised courtesans at home.
He once wrote a poem called "There is a Moon in the Small Garden", in which he described his happy time with courtesans at home, and the women in the poem such as water chestnut, Gu'er, purple silk, and red silk were all his concubines or prostitutes, all of whom were young and beautiful beauties, and some of them were even underage girls.
In June of the tenth year of Yuanhe (815), when Bai Juyi was forty-four years old, the prime minister Wu Yuanheng and Cheng Pei Du in the imperial history were assassinated by assassins, Wu Yuanheng was killed on the spot, and Pei Du was seriously injured.
Bai Juyi wrote to the imperial court and strongly demanded that the ** be severely cracked down on in order to clear the law and order. This made those powerful people seize the handle, they said that Bai Juyi, as an official of the East Palace, expressed his opinion on the government before the official, which was an act of ultra vires.
As a result, he was demoted to the title of Assassin of Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). Some people who hated him even made up lies, saying that Bai Juyi's mother fell into the well and died while enjoying the flowers, but Bai Juyi wrote two poems, "Enjoying Flowers" and "New Well", which is detrimental to filial piety and fame, so he can't govern the county.
The imperial court accepted these reasons and again demoted him to the rank of Jiangzhou Sima. This decision to demote the official caused a heavy blow to Bai Juyi's career and became a turning point in his life.
Since then, he has claimed that "his face has eliminated sorrow and joy, and his chest has eliminated his heart of right and wrong", his thinking has shifted from helping the world to being good to himself, and his behavior has changed from being loyal to the monarch and serving the country to being happy in time.
Bailudong Academy is located in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Jiangzhou Sima Bai Juyi built a thatched hall at the northern foot of Lushan Mountain, and traveled with monks, and Buddhism and Taoism began to grow in the early years. He completely indulged himself, was obsessed with flowers, loved women, and became a veteran of the love scene.
In 816, he and his first love Xiang Ling, who had been separated for nearly 20 years, met by chance at the head of the Xunyang River. After Bai Juyi went home, he wrote two poems "The Old" (one of them), the white hair added new hatred, and the king swept the moth to reduce the old appearance.
was blamed by the people, and the young man parted and met each other. (2) After a long absence, they meet occasionally, and they are suspected to be in a dream. Joy is like a lamp, and it will eventually be empty. From green silk to white hair, Bai Juyi's infatuation and love ended with the word "hate".
The following year, Bai Juyi wrote "Pipa Xing": Dreaming of juvenile things in the middle of the night, dreaming of makeup and tears. Hearing the pipa has sighed, and hearing this heavy chirping. is the same person who has fallen to the end of the world, why should we have known each other when we meet.
Pipa line"It is a poem that depicts the scene of the poet Bai Juyi and his first love Xiang Ling reuniting by chance at the head of the Xunyang River. The poet affectionately expressed his long-forgotten first love with his affectionate brushstrokes.
This chance encounter is also the last farewell on the life path of 44-year-old Bai Juyi and 40-year-old Xiangling. In the thirteenth year of Yuanhe (818), Bai Juyi's younger brother Bai Xingjian came to Jiangzhou to meet him.
The following year, Bai Juyi, with the help of Cui Qun, a friend of the prime minister at the time, was appointed as the assassin of Zhongzhou (present-day Chongqing). Bai Xingjian and his brother went up the Yangtze River together. Shi Yuanzhi went to Governor Shi Ren, met in the stone cave at the mouth of the Yellow Cow Gorge on March 11, stopped the boat to Yiling, put wine and poems, and said goodbye for three days.
The place where the three of them met in Chungju is called Samyudong. During his tenure in Chungju, Baek Juyi planted flowers on the slopes of the eastern part of the city and named the place "Dongpo". In the summer of the fifteenth year of Yuanhe (820), Bai Juyi was recalled to Chang'an and served as a doorman of Shangshusi.
In the winter of the same year, he was transferred to the host and guest Lang Zhongzhi system.