Zhengzhou International【走近郑州历史名人】诗王白居易

Located in the middle of heaven and earth, Zhengzhou is nurtured by the Yellow river. Since ancient times, herds of influential statesmen, thinkers, scientists and writers borned here. They either worked for the government or wrote books, highlighting their times with their insights, creations and ideas.

位居天地之中、黄河之滨的郑州，受大河哺育、“天中”滋养，自古以来就涌现出众多影响深远的政治家、思想家、科学家、文学家等各领域杰出人才，他们或为政一方，或著书立说，用自己的见解、创造和思想为所处时代打上了一片片“高光”。

Take copper as a mirror, one can be dressed; take people as a mirror,one can judge gains and losses. Maybe we will have new gains when we get close to these famous people in Zhengzhou's history again.

以铜为鉴，可以正衣冠; 以人为鉴，可以明得失。当我们再次走近郑州历史上的这些名人，或许会有新的收获。

Two years after the death of Du Fu, Bai Juyi, a fellow Villager in Zhengzhou and one of the "three great poets" of the Tang Dynasty, was born in Xinzheng in 772 to a small bureaucratic family.

“诗圣”杜甫去世后两年，郑州老乡、唐代“三大诗人”之一的白居易772年在新郑一个中小官僚家庭出生了。

Unlike Du Fu, who witnessed the transition from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi lived in the turmoil of war for several years in his youth in the mid-Tang Dynasty. It is recorded that Bai Juyi was brilliant and studied so hard that his mouth gave birth to sores and his hands became calluses. When he was young, his hair was completely white.

与杜甫见证唐代由盛而衰的转折不同，白居易所处中唐，少年时代就好几年生活在战乱的动荡之中。有资料记载，白居易聪颖过人，读书十分刻苦，用功到读书口都生出了疮、手都磨出了茧，年纪轻轻就头发全白。

In bai Juyi's "career", he has the highlight moment that been appreciated by the emperor ,also has the lonely time that been degraded, but what closely accompanied by his side is always poetry.

在白居易的“职场”生涯中，他有受到皇帝赏识的高光时刻，也有被贬的落寞低谷，但紧紧陪伴在他身边的，始终有诗。

When he was happy, his poems actively reflected the sufferings of people's livelihood and made up for the current political situation. When he was frustrated, he was away from the central government and companied by wine, and write easy-known poetry to express his heart.

得意时诗歌创作积极反映民生疾苦，补察时政;失意时远离中央朝廷，诗、酒自娱，写起诗来直抒胸臆，平易好懂。

Bai Juyi not only spent a lot of time in writing poetry, but also put more "great" thoughts into the theory of poetry, and put forward the famous argument of "root sentiment, Miao language, Hua Sheng, and real meaning".Emotion is the foundation of poetry, speech and voice is the expression form of poetry, righteousness is the social effect of poetry -- frankly speaking, poetry creation can not be divorced from reality, it must be derived from life, based on various events in real life, reflecting the social appearance of an era.

白居易一生不仅花了很多心思写诗，还把更“大”的心思花在了诗歌理论上，提出了“根情、苗言、华声、实义”的著名论点。情是诗的基础，言和声是诗的表现形式，义是诗的社会效果——直白来说，就是诗歌创作不能脱离现实，必须来源于生活、取材于现实生活中的各种事件，反映着一个时代的社会面貌。

In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, poetry was to a large extent a kind of entertainment like pop music, but by this time, poetry was no longer an optional "pastime", but a necessary "mirror" to reflect the society and face the reality.

盛唐时，诗歌的作用很大程度上是一种流行乐似的娱乐品，而到了此时，诗歌早已不是可有可无的“消遣”，而成为反映社会、正视现实的必要“镜子”。

It is worth mentioning that Compared with other poets, Bai Juyi had a profound influence on China's neighboring countries.

值得一提的是，相对其他诗人，白居易对中国周边国家的影响深远。

Sources show that while Bai was still alive, his poetry was sent to Japan by Tang envoys. In addition, in Korea and Korea, as well as the United States, Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and other places, there have been early dissemination and research of Bai Juyi's works, in the words of critics: "Bai Juyi's poetry world is beyond his own era."

资料显示，白居易在世时，其诗歌作品就被遣唐使带到了日本。此外，在韩国、朝鲜以及美国、英国、德国、苏联等地，很早都有白居易作品的传播和研究，用评论家的话来说：“白居易的诗歌世界超越了他自己所处的时代。”

 

原文来源：郑州发布