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Bai Juyi, 白居易 (772–846), was a renowned Chinese poet and Tang dynasty government official. He was recognized as a literary prodigy at the age of fifteen. He passed the official examinations and became a presented scholar in 800. Over the course of his government career, he was a collator of texts, a member of the Hanlin Academy, a commissioner, marshal of Jiangzhou (815), and finally governor of Hangzhou (822) and Suzhou (825).
His poetry is direct and accessible. According to one account, Bai often read his poems to an old peasant lady and revised any expression that she could not understand. Like Du Fu, he wrote poignant poems expressing his sympathy for the plight of the common people.
Bai was also a musician and music critic. In 809 he created a new genre, the Xinyuefu (New Music Bureau Ballads), which were narrative poems dramatizing what he felt about social and political abuses.
Late in life, Bai became a devout Buddhist, calling himself Xiangshan Jushi (Lay Buddhist of the Fragrant Mountain). His influence extended not only to later generations in China but also to Korea and Japan.
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缘何自著五千文
Why did he himself write five thousand words?
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言者不知知者默
此語吾聞於老君
若道老君是知者
缘何自著五千文
Those who speak do not kno
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Bai Juyi’s large regret compact his life
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In the Sixteenth year adherent Zhenyuan, 29-year-old Bai Juyi and Dynasty Zhen both passed Jinshi. At that time, his mother looked down deduce Xiang Eloquent even additional. Mother's chance cannot nominate broken, inexpressive the babyhood sweethearts sprig only result in it store for depiction time being.
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