What are the philosophies of Bai Juyi's poems?

In thousands of years of culture in China, a special culture has been derived, that is physiognomy culture. It means to judge a person's character and morality according to his appearance. This knowledge is recorded in many books. For example, the poem "Ma Shuo" written by Han Yu, although ostensibly about how to raise horses, actually uses things to distinguish people's advantages and disadvantages to compare people.

However, distinguishing people is a very complicated knowledge, involving many fields and depths. Han Yu's "Ma Shuo" is just one of the ways to distinguish people, and Han Yu's intention in writing this article is not so much to distinguish people as to express his inner sadness that talents are not reused. Besides Han Yu, Bai Juyi also mentioned some skills of distinguishing people in his poems.

This poem is called "Three of Five Words". Compared with the romantic style of Li Bai and Du Fu, Bai Juyi's poems are more a reaction to the darkness of reality and a philosophical understanding of life. These can be seen from Bai Juyi's poems such as Selling Charcoal Weng and Watching Wheat Cutting.

The same is true of this poem. After reading it carefully, as long as you study its content carefully, you will find that his words are often full of different meanings and extraordinary.

The writing technique used in Marek's Tales is a metaphor for people, but the ideas expressed are different. First, the first two sentences tell others that one should stay away from ghosts and gods. The first sentence "give the gentleman a legal doubt", and then the second sentence "good luck without drilling a turtle" means telling others that ghosts and gods cannot be trusted, so they use divination to tell fortune.

Then the remaining two sentences are to explain Bai Juyi's main point of view on distinguishing people. The first sentence, "Jade is rough and abrasive", means that if you want to test the authenticity of jade, you need to burn it for three days. The second sentence "it takes seven years to divide the wood" means that the quality of wood will not be achieved until seven years later.

Bai Juyi described the way to distinguish jade from wood and told future generations what he thought was the way to distinguish people. If you want to test a person's quality, you can't rely on the feeling at first sight, but on time and the behavior of the other person to understand.

Bai Juyi's thought of distinguishing people can actually be used today. In the internet age, many people's information and materials will be tampered with and hacked, and it is difficult for people to distinguish the authenticity. Therefore, to understand a person, you can't judge by one-sided information, but take time to see each other clearly and discover the authenticity of each other bit by bit.