Is Bai Juyi a poet?

Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.

Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty.

Extended information Bai Juyi's story

In the fifteenth year of Yuanhe, Tang Xianzong died suddenly in Chang 'an, and Tang Muzong succeeded to the throne. Mu Zong loves talents, recalled Chang 'an, and became a foreign minister, doctor, doctor and sinologist. However, at that time, North Korea was in chaos, with ministers fighting for power and profit and infighting. Mu Zong is politically lazy and doesn't listen to advice. So he asked for his release.

In 822, Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou. During his tenure in Hangzhou, he saw that the farmland around Hangzhou was often threatened by drought, but officials refused to use the water from the West Lake to irrigate the farmland. So he eliminated many obstacles and criticisms, mobilized migrant workers to heighten the lake embankment, built dams and sluices, increased the capacity of the lake, and solved the irrigation problem of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland between Qiantang (now Hangzhou) and Yan Guan (now Haining).

Bai Juyi also stipulated that when the farmland is not irrigated, the large and small sluices and Doumen of the West Lake should be closed in time; If there is water leakage, it should be repaired in time. Bai Juyi also organized the masses to repair six wells dug by Li Bi, the secretariat of Hangzhou, in Qiantangmen and Yongjinmen in the Tang Dynasty, which improved the water use conditions of residents.

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