Chapter 10 Yuan Bai School of Poetry

The "New Yuefu Movement" initiated by Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi in the mid-Tang Dynasty was a major event in the history of poetry. It had a great influence at that time and many people participated in it. group". Proposed by Chen Ziang, the poetic innovation movement completed by the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty was not carried on well in the early Middle Tang Dynasty.Gu Kuang, Liu Changqing, Li Yi, Wei Yingwu and the "Ten Talented Scholars of Dali" have become more proficient in their poetry skills, but their reflections on real life have gradually become farther away. The short-lived joy brought to people by the pacification of the "Anshi Rebellion" was soon shattered by the harsh reality.The separatist rule of feudal vassals and towns, eunuchs' unauthorized power, land annexation, and heavy taxes and servitude made the imperial court perilous and the people's lives miserable.But the rulers are still immersed in the halo of "ZTE", while the exploitation of the people has intensified.Therefore, Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen launched a poetry innovation movement to create a new title Yuefu to reflect reality and expose social ills.Followers at that time included Li Shen, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Tang Qu, Liu Meng, Deng Bream, Li Yu and others, forming a massive New Yuefu Movement.

Li Bai and Du Fu are two representative figures of Yuefu poetry in the Tang Dynasty. They both inherited the realistic tradition of "feeling sorrow and joy, and acting out of events" in Yuefu poetry, but the roads taken by the two are different. Li Bai is the successor and summarizer of Han and Wei Yuefu.He wrote about current affairs with Yuefu ancient inscriptions, following the same path as Cao Cao, Cao Zhi and others.His famous Yuefu poems "War City South", "Difficult Way to Travel", "Moshang Sang" and "Midnight Wuge" are all ancient Yuefu poems.

Du Fu was the founder of Yuefu poetry after the Tang Dynasty.His Yuefu poems completely broke the shackles of the ancient titles, and drew up new titles according to the needs, which is the so-called "immediate famous poems, no more to rely on", which greatly broadened the realm of Yuefu poems, such as "Soldiers and Chariots" and "Beautiful People". and "Three Officials" and "Sanbie" are all works of this type.Therefore, Du Fu can be regarded as the pioneer of the New Yuefu Movement in the Tang Dynasty.It's just that this is a great god, and no temple can hold it—he wrote many frontier poems, but he didn't belong to the frontier poetry school; he wrote many pastoral landscape poems, but he didn't belong to the pastoral landscape school.Similarly, he did not belong to the Yuefu school, but he was indeed the pioneer of the new Yuefu movement in the Tang Dynasty.

The New Yuefu Movement of the Yuan and Bai Dynasties aimed at reflecting the public’s ailments and criticizing current maladies, emphasizing the social functions of poetry to “revise current affairs” and “demonstrating human sentiments” and advocating the popularization of poetry. And development.Their poems can indeed hit the ills of the society, so that "the powerful and powerful will change their colors when they look at each other", "those in power will hold back their wrists", "th )Effect.