Why does everyone love to mention "Li Bai Du Fu" but forget Bai Juyi?

Topic: Why does everyone love to mention "Li Bai Du Fu" but forget Bai Juyi?

Author: literati grass

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For a long time, whenever people talked about poetry and prose, they always talked about Li Bai and Du Fu, and even spoofed expression packs, and they were willing to look for them. The most famous ones are "Du Fu is very busy" and "Li Bai is very cool".

du fu is very busy

However, as we all know, there were many excellent poets and poets in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty alone, there were dozens of poets, such as Wang Bo, Meng Haoran, Wang Changling, Wang Wei, Meng Jiao, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi, Liu Zongyuan, Li He, Du Mu, Li Shangyin, Li Qingzhao, Su Shi, Li Shangyin, etc.

Moreover, there is a handsome guy who was once as famous as Li Bai and Du Fu, and was also called "the three great poets of the Tang Dynasty" with the above two, but he has always been ignored by everyone. Yes, he is Bai Juyi.

Just like the mention of "Eighteen Arhats", everyone is familiar with it. If you really want to call Mako, you can only say "Dragon Falling" and "Khufu". For Bai Juyi, one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty, he was also gifted and brilliant. His literary position is not inferior to that of Li and Du Fu, but most people always ignore Lao Bai when talking about poetry.

Portrait of Bai Juyi

Now, let me give you an analysis to see if this is true.

Bai Juyi, whose real name is Lotte and Mr. Zuiyin, is also called "Poet Magic" and "Poet King". A famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, as well as Du Li, is also known as the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty.

First of all, it is the age factor. Li Bai and Du Fu are people of the same era and are called Du Li. Du Fu is younger than Li Bai 1 1 years old, and they have met each other, so they are not very good personal friends. But it was also very popular at that time. So they all spoke highly of each other's poems, and they also gave each other poems, such as A Play for Du Fu and Dune for Du Fu presented by Li Bai. Du Fu gave Li Bai many gifts, such as gifts for Li Bai, memories of Li Bai in spring, Li Bai's dreams, and Li Bai in the horizon. In that era when there was no Weibo and QQ, it was the best way to make friends and cultivate feelings.

On the other hand, Bai Juyi is much younger than Du Li above. When Bai Juyi was born, Li had died 10 years ago, but Du Fu and Bai Juyi had some overlap in time-when Bai Juyi was two years old, Lao Du died in his shabby hut. Therefore, when Bai Juyi became famous decades later, the above two people had passed away for many years. Bai Juyi has always claimed to be the younger generation of Du Li's two great immortals, and never dared to compare with the two ancient people, so that later people gradually accepted the * * * of Li Bai and Du Fu, and Bai Juyi, who was behind, consciously stood behind the two great men to show his respect.

Another factor is the different writing styles. As we all know, Li Bai and Du Fu are both models of romanticism and representatives of realism. Their artistic achievements are equal. Both of them became famous in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The poetic style at that time mostly described the humanistic feelings in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, while Bai Juyi was born in the middle Tang Dynasty. His poetic style inherited Du Fu's realistic writing technique, and during this period, the political, economic and even cultural crisis before the late Tang Dynasty gradually emerged. Bai Juyi's most famous poems "Song of Eternal Sorrow" and "Pipa Travel" all describe this point.

Based on the above two factors, the image of Li Bai and Du Fu among the people will be fuller.

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