Source: Pipa Xing by Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi. This is a famous masterpiece of realism. The full text takes the characters as clues, not only writing the life experience of the pipa girl, but also writing the poet's feelings, and then meeting in the sentence "We are both unhappy-to the end of the day". This poem is touching, narrates events and describes characters, and is full of lyrical colors.
Excerpt from the original text: I am seeing guests off by the Xunyang River, and maple leaves and rushes rustle in autumn. I, the host, have dismounted, my guest has boarded his boat, and we raise our cups, hoping to drink-but, alas, there is no music. Although we drank a lot of wine, we were not happy. When we were leaving each other, the river mysteriously widened in the direction of the full moon.
On autumn night, I went to Xunyang Jiangtou to see off a returning guest, and the autumn wind blew the maple leaves and reeds rustling. My guests and I dismounted from the boat to bid farewell and drank useless music. If you don't drink well, it will be even sadder. You left, and the river reflected the bright moon at night.
Creation background of the expansion piece: In June of the 10th year of Yuanhe (8 15), the forces of the Tang Dynasty sent assassins to stab the Prime Minister Wu and the imperial minister Pei Du at the head of Chang 'an Street. Therefore, the forces of the buffer region further demanded the removal of Pei Du, so as to stabilize the buffer region's "anti-frontier" heart.
Bai Juyi advocates cracking down on the murderer in the above table, which is suspected of "ultra vires"; Moreover, Bai Juyi often wrote allegorical poems, which offended the powerful people in the DPRK, so he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. Sima is the assistant of the secretariat. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, the placement of "criminal" officials was a disguised distribution.
This incident had a great influence on Bai Juyi and was a turning point in his ideological transformation. Since then, his early fighting spirit has gradually worn away and his negative emotions have increased. In the autumn of the 11th year of Yuanhe (AD 8 16), Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for two years. He saw off guests in Jiangtou, Xunyang, and met a singer who was abandoned in his youth because of his artistic skills. She was unhappy, and combined with her own travel experience, she wrote this famous Pipa Line (the original Pipa Line Preface) in the form of singing.
About the author: Bai Juyi (772-846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province, whose real name is Lotte, was named Xiangshan Jushi. Realistic poet in Tang Dynasty. In Zhenyuan, he was a scholar, awarded the secretary of the provincial school book lang, and later moved to be an old man and a doctor who praised Zuo Shan.
In the tenth year of Yuanhe (8 15), Prime Minister Wu was assassinated, and Bai Juyi advocated severely punishing the murderer. He was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for exceeding his authority, and successively served as the secretariat of Hangzhou, the secretariat of Suzhou and the minister of punishments. In the sixth year of Huichang (846), he died and was given the right servant of Shangshu, posthumous title. Bai Juyi is an advocate of the new Yuefu movement. He advocates that "articles should be written in time and poems should be written for things".
His poetic language is well known, and he is called "Bai Yuan" with Yuan Zhen and "Bai Liu" with Liu Yuxi. His representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on. And Bai Changqing's collection has been passed down from generation to generation. Later generations called it "the poet king" and "the poet demon".