Short biography of po chu-i poetry
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Bai Juyi
Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty ()
In this Chinese name, the family name is Bai.
Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; Chinese: 白居易; &#;), courtesy nameLetian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces. He achieved fame as a writer of verse in a low-key, near vernacular style that was popular throughout medieval East Asia.[1]
Bai was also influential in the historical development of Japanese literature, where he is better known by the on'yomi reading of his courtesy name, Haku Rakuten (shinjitai: 白楽天).[2] His younger brother Bai Xingjian was a short story writer.
Among his most famous works are the long narrative poems "Chang Hen Ge" ("Song of Everlasting Sorrow"), which tells the story of Yang Guifei, and "Pipa xing" ("Song of the Pipa").
Life
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Po-Chü-i's Poems of Reclusion
Po Chü-i (Bai Juyi, ) is one of China's greatest poets. The importance of his voice lies in his testimony to reclusion and a lifelong attraction to the life of reclusion, as well as a life of poetry.
At the age of forty, after holding a modest government post nära the capital, Po Chü-i retired upon the death of his mother. He returned to court after a few years but was then banished to Hsün-yang, and three years later was banished to Chung-Chou in extreme western China. Two years later he was assigned to the more significant posts of governorship of Hangchow, then governorship of Soochow. After illness, he retired to Chang-an and Lo-yang, capital of the province of Lo-nan. These were his gods appointments, for he retired again due to illness, later suffering a stroke, and died at the age of seventy-four.
The themes and subjects of the poems of Po Chü-i reflect those common among the poets of his own Tang era: court office, reclusion, family, f
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Po Chü-i
Po Chü-i () was a Chinese poet best known for his ballads and satirical poems. He held the view that good poetry should be readily understood by the common people and exemplified it in poems noted for simple diction, natural style, and social content.
On Feb. 28, , Po Chü-i was born in Hsin-cheng, Honan, to a family of poets and minor officials. In his childhood he stayed with his mother and other members of the family while his father went south to take up prefectural positions in the Yangtze region. When military governors of the northern provinces rebelled against the government in , the family moved southward to Fu-li (northern Anhwei) and later to Chü-chou (western Chekiang) to be near Po's father, who held successive official appointments in these districts.
In his early youth Po Chü-i prepared himself for the civil service examination but was delayed in taking it by his father's death in In he went to Ch'ang-an, the capital, where he soon obtained the chinsh