What is Bai Juyi like in history?

Bai Juyi was as frivolous as we were when he was young. But he has always taken "a gentleman can settle down and wait for his life" as the central idea. Bai Juyi not only wrote good poems, but also remained loyal to the court affairs. He has been trying to solve problems for the people. Later, Bai Juyi was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima because he bluntly testified against the emperor in court. This is a turning point in his life. In his mind, he has always taken it as his duty to benefit the people. Most of his poems satirize the political affairs at that time with metaphors, regardless of the safety of the people, only eating, drinking and having fun. These made the people dissatisfied, and Bai Juyi was dissatisfied, so most of Bai Juyi's poems satirized the bad king at that time. Another content of Bai Juyi's poems is to describe the customs and culture of the people at that time. This is the introduction of Bai Juyi.

Bai Juyi's murder with poetry is also one of the evidences that his writing style is problematic, that is, he forced himself to die. Guan is a maiko in Zhang Jianfeng. After Zhang Jianfeng's death, Guan has been kept for more than ten years. As soon as Bai Juyi came up, he said, "Once I leave, I won't go with you." Mr. Lu Xun used the word "cannibalism" to describe how harsh feudal ethics were. Bai Juyi is actually just teasing Guan, but the world despises Guan because of it. Finally, Guan couldn't stand everyone's condemnation and committed suicide.

When meeting with Zen master Wu Chao, Bai Juyi asked the Zen master, "What is the general idea of Buddhism?" The Zen master casually replied, "Do all evil and pursue all good." Bai Juyi felt that the Zen master's answer was too perfunctory and said unhappily, "Well, even a three-year-old knows." The Zen master glanced at the unhappy Bai Juyi and said slowly, "Although a three-year-old child can speak, an 80-year-old man may not be able to do it."

"If all kinds of evils are not done, all kinds of good will be pursued." The original text says, "If you don't do all kinds of evil, all kinds of good will pursue it. It's all Buddhism." This is the basic morality of Buddhism, and its meaning is very simple. According to Zen master Wu Chao, this simple truth may be known by three-year-old children, but many people can't do it.

Bai Juyi was fine when he was young. He is an angry young man. He wrote some poems describing people's sufferings. When he was an official, he also knew how to persuade the emperor to be kind to the people, and he also expressed the lofty aspirations of young people from time to time. Bai Juyi's talent goes without saying, what is even more rare is that he can consider making ordinary people understand his poems. Therefore, Bai Juyi's name soon started. As we all know, Bai Juyi, a poet who wrote poems for the people, was soon circled by Xiao Bai himself.

By studying history, we should know that the formulation and implementation of the Law of the Tang Dynasty marks the formation of a relatively complete legal system in the legal system of the Tang Dynasty, and also marks the maturity and completeness of the Chinese legal system. With such a legal system, the Tang Dynasty should move towards an equal and orderly society ruled by law. However, Bai Juyi lived in a chaotic era. In his view, the reason lies in "officials don't obey their laws" and "the court despises laws and judges", that is, the state doesn't attach importance to laws and judges, and officials don't strictly enforce the law and sentence at will. Such a law enforcement method will inevitably lead to official corruption and social chaos. Bai Juyi proposed to "attach importance to his subjects and his officials", that is, to improve the legal status, attach importance to the training and selection of judicial talents, and strengthen the construction of the rule of law from the perspective of official management.