China News Service Client, Beijing, February 28 (Reporter Wang Shiyao) February 28 is the 1250th birthday of the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi.
In the public impression, Bai Juyi once wrote poems such as "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and "Pipa Xing", and is a talented "poem demon" and "poetry king".
But do you know his little-known "B-side"?
Portrait of Bai Juyi.
Image source: Visual China
01 Narcissism?
——The selfie "copywriting master" in the circle of friends
Today, thanks to the rapid development of smartphones and social media, people are keen to take selfies to record their lives.
A well-retouched selfie, coupled with a few emotional portraits, a standard template of Moments is born.
Do you think this is our way of life?
Otherwise, the ancients have already played this set "through".
Before the birth of "photography", there was already "selfie copywriting in the circle of friends" - a poem with a title.
An article quoted the opinion that we can know that the earliest lover of inscription poems is Bai Juyi.
When Bai Juyi was a Hanlin bachelor in Chang'an, he asked the famous painter Li Fang to paint a portrait of himself, and wrote a poem: "I don't recognize my appearance, Li Fang writes my truth. Just look at the gods and bones, and they are people in the mountains."
When he looked at the statue again, he realized that he was much older than ten years ago, so he wrote: "I used to be thirty-six years ago, and my appearance is in Danqing. I am now forty-six years old, and I am lying in Jiangcheng. Old, once with all the misery. The picture is the same as before, without the appearance of the past. The shadows and shadows care for each other, like a brother to a brother."
Ten years later, Bai Juyi sighed again at the painting: "Li Fang wrote about me for 20 years. Don't ask how the truth is, the painting also sold out."
The same self-portrait has been "self-appreciated" for so many years, each time it is accompanied by different copywriting, and the old picture is reposted, it seems that it is indeed "narcissistic".
However, Bai Juyi's poetry is not only for this.
These three poems with title like poems convey the three mentalities of Bai Juyi in the three periods, and the poems also describe his 20 years of ups and downs in his career, which is beyond regret.
Portrait of Bai Juyi.
Image source: Visual China
02 Make friends
——A real "social expert"
Everyone knows that "Song of Everlasting Regret" is Bai Juyi's masterpiece, but few people know the origin of this work.
Wang Zhifu lived in seclusion in the mountains and fields, and he was a reclusive person, but he had a close relationship with Bai Juyi.
Some people have counted that Bai Juyi wrote more than ten poems to each other, showing a deep friendship.
In that year, when Bai Juyi was serving as the county captain of Zhouzhi, there was a famous Xianyou Temple there.
One day, Bai Juyi invited his friend Chen Hong to play with Wang Zhifu.
The three of them visited the monastery together. On the way, they talked about the long-running story of Tang Xuanzong and Concubine Yang Guifei's joys and sorrows. Everyone was a little emotional.
Wang Zhifu then asked Bai Juyi to write a poem for this story, and this idea contributed to the birth of the eternal masterpiece "Song of Everlasting Regret".
Bai Juyi's sincere treatment of his friends is also talked about with relish.
When he was transferred from Jiangzhou to the governor of Zhongzhou, one day Bai Juyi went home to grind noodles and scones to kill time after finishing his official business.
Looking at the freshly baked scones, he remembered an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time. Bai Juyi, who was very motivated, immediately sent a "express" to him, just to share the food with his friends.
In "Sending Hu Cakes and Yang Wanzhou", Bai Juyi said: "The flax cakes are like Kyoto, and the noodles are crispy and oily and fragrant. Sending them to the hungry ambassador Yang, it seems like there is no supplement to taste."
Yang Wanzhou is Yang Guihou, a friend of Bai Juyi's early acquaintance.
At that time, Bai was in Zhongzhou and Yang was in Wanzhou, and the two places were not too far apart.
An article analyzed that at that time, Bai Juyi’s “express” delivery of scones was definitely the first choice for waterways, because the local water system was developed and there were many ships, Li Bai’s light boat could “return thousands of miles to Jiangling in one day” and deliver scones a few hundred miles away. Coming soon.
If you send an "expedited express", maybe you can let your friends eat hot scones.
There may be some jokes in the above, but it also shows that Bai Juyi is full of sincerity towards his friends.
03 CP Master
——"Thousands of Miles of Divine Friendship" have a heart-to-heart
Although Bai Juyi has many friends, Yuan Zhen is the strongest CP.
The two are also called "Yuanbai".
Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen have a 7-year age difference, but their friendship "has a lot to do with each other, and there is no heresy in their hearts."
The two even had a miracle of "a thousand miles of gods".
Once, Yuan Zhen was sent out on a business trip.
Bai Juyi, who was playing in Qujiang and Ci'en Temple, was drinking with the crowd and suddenly put down his glass and said that his brother should go to Liangzhou at this time.
Therefore, Bai Juyi wrote a poem: "When you spend your time, you are drunk to break the sorrow of spring, and when you are drunk, you break the flowers and branches to make wine. Suddenly remembering the old man's sky, the plan is to Liangzhou today."
Unbelievably, after more than ten days, Bai Juyi received a letter from Yuan Zhen.
The letter said that the other party had a dream that night, dreaming that he was swimming with everyone in Qujiang, and they were having a good time. Suddenly the sound of carriages and horses sounded, and he was surprised to find that he was in Liangzhou.
"Mengjun circled the head of the Qujiang River, and also traveled to the Ci'en Courtyard. The pavilion officials called people to line up the horses, and suddenly found themselves in ancient Liangzhou."
The two are thousands of miles apart, and they write poems at the same time to miss each other and accurately tell where the other is.
This kind of heart is in harmony, and it definitely deserves the title of "the strongest CP".
Bai Juyi has his own opinions on the world's nostalgia; between the lines, he is full of free and easy.
Thousands of years have passed, and now we can only understand the outline of this great writer through the gaps in history.
Disturbing the past, someone commented.
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