Bai Juyi studied as a child and was admitted to the company twice a month when he grew up.

Besides Li Bai and Du Fu, Bai Juyi was the most influential poet in the Tang Dynasty. White poems are not only popular, but also numerous. Li and Du Jia together have only about 2,000 poems, not as many as he wrote alone, and there are nearly 3,000 poems by Bai Juyi. Moreover, it is said that Lao Du's poems are "the history of poetry". In fact, Du Fu's performance is nothing more than the war scenes in the Anshi Rebellion, not the dribs and drabs in the harmonious society of the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's poems are all-encompassing. They describe in detail the official career, worldly wisdom and daily chores of the literati at that time, and are rare historical materials for studying the customs of the Tang Dynasty.

Reading Bai Juyi's poems has a very cordial feeling. First, his poems are well organized and have no obscure allusions. Secondly, his poems are full of Taoist thoughts of leisure and inaction, which greatly fits my spleen and stomach.

It is said that Bai Juyi admired Li Shangyin and joked that he would be reincarnated as his son. Later, Li Shangyin got a son who was really named "Bai Lao", but the son was stupid and stupid. Lian Wen laughed at "Bai Lao": "Are you really Bai Juyi reincarnated? Aren't you the one who lost "Old White"? 」

Bai Juyi was born in 772, the same age as Liu Yuxi and Shen Li. Like Liu Yuxi's mistake for the ancestor of King Jing of Zhongshan, Bai Juyi's own family description also involves a celebrity named Bai-the celebrity Bai Qi. However, such things are mostly caused by the habit of the Tang people to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, which is not credible. In recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that Bai Juyi is a descendant of Kucha Hu people in the western regions. Well, Liu Yuxi is a Hun, Yuan Zhen is a Xianbei, and now Bai Juyi is the sixth Hu among the ten Hu () (his brother Bai Min is a poet), which is simply a "five flowers" in the poem! ?

Therefore, Bai Juyi's ancestors, such as Bai Qi, should all be fake, and only Grandpa and Dad Bai are real. Bai Yong was a county magistrate in Gongxian County, but Bai Juyi died at the age of one. Bai has served as Zuo Wuwei, Cao Shenjun, Songzhou Shenjun, Pengcheng County Magistrate, Dali, Xiangzhou Biejia and other middle and lower official positions.

Bai Juyi himself recalled that he was very clever when he was young. When he was six or seven months old, the nurse held him and played under a screen with words written on it, pointing to the words "know" and "nothing" and telling him that Bai Juyi remembered it. Later, someone asked Xiao Bai Juyi, and he could recognize it. However, Bai Juyi, a young man, is not only clever, but also diligent. He "attends classes during the day, reads books at night and occasionally recites poems, so he doesn't sleep." As a result, your mouth becomes sore and your elbow becomes shriveled (Nine Books with the Same Yuan). When I read it, my mouth gets sour, and when I write it, my elbow gets calluses.

The hard learning process has done great harm to Bai Juyi's health. At a young age, I degenerated into this: "I am strong but my skin is not full, my teeth are white before I get old, my eyes are like flying ropes, and I have moved tens of thousands of times, all because of hard study and hard practice." "("Nine Books with Yuan ")

At the age of eighteen, Bai Juyi came to Chang 'an to take the imperial examination and met his predecessor, Gu Kuang. When Gu Kuang saw his name, he joked, "Everything in Chang 'an is expensive, so it is not easy to live in a big place. Later, after reading the couplet written by Bai Juyi ("Farewell to Ancient Grass"), he changed his mind: "There is a saying that it is not difficult to live in the world. The old lady's preface is the ear of the play. " (Yuan Xinwen's Biography of Tang Talents) What happened later proved Gu Kuang's vision.

But as I said before, Bai Juyi is much older than Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi, and he was only the fourth in high school at the age of 29. At this time, his father Bai had died for two years. For Bai Fu, it is a pity that his son is promising but he can't see it himself.

Bai Juyi later declaimed that "China and North Korea have no relatives, and a senior official is not half old" ("Nine Books with the Same Yuan"), which means that he entered the Jinshi by himself and did not enter through the back door at all. This also reflects from another side that the imperial examination in the middle Tang Dynasty was true and not completely corrupt.

Bai Juyi was unstoppable, and later took the imperial examination the following year and won the title of "Scholar". After that, he should be an official, so the court gave him the position of Zhengjiupin secretary and provincial proofreader. Bai Juyi wrote a poem at that time, "Changle lives in a secluded place, with an occasional rhyme of sixteen, addressed to,, Lv Erhuan, Lv Siqi, Cui, Xuanliang, Yuan Jiuzhen, Liu,, Zhang Shiwu Zhong Yuan, when he was a school scribe":

Vanity Fair, the imperial capital, has nothing to show off. Lazy people don't comb at night. The nature of work is different, and there is a difference between advance and retreat. Fortunately, every Taiping generation, the son of heaven is good at literature and Confucianism. Little talent is hard to use, but learning lies in the secretary. I entered the province at the age of 30 because I had to be stubborn. There are four or five cabins, a horse and two servants. The salary is 6000, and the monthly payment is more than enough. There is no food and clothing, and few people are arrested. Therefore, young people's hearts will be calm every day.

I said Bai Juyi's poems are very valuable, because he has many poems and sings everything. Like this poem, we can not only know his mood and living conditions at that time, but also infer his official treatment as a proofreader. "There are four or five huts, a horse and two servants. It doesn't look so good, but people are quite proud of being assigned four or five houses, served by buses (horses) and servants. Moreover, being a school bookkeeper is quite leisure: "I entered the province at the age of 30", which means I went to the secretary province twice a month. No wonder Bai Juyi sleeps late every day-"Don't comb your hair when your head is high. "This is a good job. I also want to be a school bookkeeper.