Su Shi studied the history of Confucian classics since childhood and was deeply influenced by Confucian ideals. He "strives to have contemporary ambition" (Su Zhe's Epitaph of Mr. Dongpo). In his life, no matter whether his opinions are correct or not, he always dares to stick to his own opinions. He refuses to be a smooth bureaucrat, does not blindly follow, does not practice favoritism, and always maintains the spirit of black and white, as if this were the case. As a local official, he always cares about the people's sufferings and strives to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages. As a scholar-bureaucrat with social responsibility, he has a firm and persistent personality.
On the other hand, Su Shi, who has experienced many years of officialdom turmoil and life humiliation, also clearly saw the inevitable darkness, meanness and sinister in political struggle and felt the helplessness of life. Therefore, he sought transcendental liberation from the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi and Hyunri of Buddhism and Zen. He viewed the bitterness and happiness of life and the right and wrong of the world from the standpoint of infinite time and space, combined with the attitude of Zen, treated all changes with a "normal heart" and conformed to nature, in order to seek personal inner peace. When all kinds of misfortunes struck, he treated it with broad-minded macro-psychology, and regarded it as a short-lived phenomenon in the cyclical change of everything in the world; He doesn't want to suffer from it, but seeks some beauty and comfort in his "at arm's length" life. For example, he was banished to Lingnan, which was a place far from evil at that time. He said, "Three hundred pears a day, I don't want to grow up to be a Lingnan person."
(Eat Litchi Branch) is the expression of this attitude towards life. There is no doubt that Su Shi's above-mentioned psychology actually contains more profound sadness than the sadness directly revealed in general, including self-anesthesia and pleasure in suffering. This psychology weakens the intensity of passion in his literary creation, but at the same time, we should also see that this is not only the product of the culture of the times, but also shows the great feelings of observing society and life from a higher position and dealing with personal misfortunes.
Shen Liao, a good friend and poet of Su Shi, wrote in Mr. Dongpo's Poems: Eguan stood upright and talked, and the lofty spirit shook the national wind. Instead, I put a towel on the staff and went straight to the child. Su Shi's personality spirit is summarized from two aspects. He is solemn and peaceful, and he not only inherits the personality ideal of scholar-officials who actively join the WTO and are honest and trustworthy, but also maintains the personality ideal of scholar-officials who seek to transcend the secular and artistic life realm and spiritual realm, and integrates them into one, skillfully solving the contradictions that have been intertwined in the hearts of scholar-officials, such as enterprising and retiring, entering the WTO and being born, society and individuals, and fully expressing them in literary works. Su Shi set an example for the literati who later lived in similar social conditions, and thus gained their universal respect.
Bai Juyi is an honest official. Instead, they amuse themselves with prostitutes, music, poetry and wine. He went whoring and drinking until his later years. Tibetan prostitutes began to have fun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and were common in the Tang Dynasty, especially Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi's Biography of Mr. Zuiyin in his later years expressed himself in Baiyun: "Sex is addicted to alcohol, piano and obscene language. All drinkers, piano friends and poetry friends swim with them, and after swimming, they live in their hearts and release their homes. " We can see that he likes to drink in front of the Buddha. He even doubted whether there was a Buddha. At the same time, I learned alchemy. Strictly speaking, Bai Juyi is not a true Buddhist believer. At the same time, his worship of Buddhism is also for fitness reasons. That's why he sometimes sits in the Dojo while fasting, thinking about prostitutes and drinking wine. He dared to criticize Tang Xuanzong's debauchery. There are even such languages as "the emperor of China, eager to shake the beauty of an empire" and "the emperor, from then on, gave up his early hearing". The affectionate description of them is both ironic and full of pity. Judging from Bai Juyi's official career, although he is mostly an official, he is always in a state of anxiety and anger. As a poet, his achievements are remarkable, which can be said to be known to both the government and the public, even to women and children. Probably because of his wandering when he was young, he was demoted several times later, and he became an immortal poet because of his extensive experience and deep understanding of society.
Bai Juyi's poems, as I said before, have been well written since childhood. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, the sentence "wildfire spring breeze" became a famous sentence through the ages. The most famous narrative poem "Song of Eternal Sorrow" is a masterpiece of China's ancient poetry, which was written when he served as the zhouzhi county Order at the age of 35. The poem is based on the story of Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, which is circulated among the people. It is fictional and vividly written. It is vivid and touching, and is regarded by critics as a masterpiece of long poems in the Tang Dynasty, which occupies a prominent position in the history of China's poetry. In this poem, he dared to criticize Tang Xuanzong's debauchery. There are even such languages as "the emperor of China, eager to shake the beauty of an empire" and "the emperor, from then on, gave up his early hearing". The affectionate description of them is both ironic and full of pity. Speaking of the situation in Where Are You Going, the pen is quite emotional. The whole poem rises from the twists and turns of the story, full of emotion and complexity, which gives people great appeal.
Bai Juyi classified his poems into four categories. Besides satirical poems, there are leisure poems, sentimental poems and miscellaneous poems, most of which are well written. Generally speaking, early poetry is more valuable than later poetry. It is a pity that his later poems no longer have the edge of youth because of the cold world.
As a great poet and brilliant poet, Bai Juyi's creative talents are various. His poems are diverse not only in artistic form, but also in ideological content and artistic style. One of the greatest characteristics of white poetry is that the language is easy to understand, but at the same time it has undergone a lot of artistic processing. In the poetry circle, there is a story, and an old woman is also explaining white poetry. In "Tang Yin Tong Qian" written by Hu Zhenheng, a poetic theorist in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Wenqian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once saw the record of Bai Juyi's manuscript, saying that "the original work is not lost, but the first work is lost", which shows that Bai Juyi is diligent in writing and proofreading poems. The artistic level of his poems is the result of the author's efforts.
When Bai Juyi was alive, his poems spread widely and had great influence, which made him very proud. Bai Juyi said in "Nine Books with Yuan": "From Chang 'an to Jiangxi for three or four thousand miles, there are often poets in rural schools, Buddhist temples, anti-tourism and boating; At the mouth of the earth, monks, widows, virgins, there are always servants who recite poems. "Yuan Zhen also said Bai Juyi's poem," In the past twenty years, provinces, temples, posts and walls have been banned without books, and ministers, concubines and horses have no discomfort. As for those who sell Moeller Street in the market, or take it as wine and tea, it is everywhere. "A person's poetry has such a social effect in contemporary times, which is rare in ancient times. Not only that, Bai Juyi's poems gained great international reputation and numerous foreign readers at that time, and were circulated and created in Japan, Silla (now Korea), South Japan (now Vietnam) and other countries. According to historical records, at that time, Emperor Emei of Japan copied many poems of Bai Juyi and secretly recited them in his secret house. King Khitan personally translated the white poems into Khitan characters and ordered the ministers to read them aloud.
It goes without saying that Bai Juyi's poems have a great and far-reaching influence on later poems, and white poems will always be loved by people all over the world and spread through the ages.