Hu Shi praised the literary innovation movement led by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, and believed that poetry could create public opinion and help improve politics. Because Chen Duxiu and Hu Shi advocated the New Literature Movement, Bai Juyi's poems were highly praised in the atmosphere of advocating vernacular Chinese and not avoiding common words and sayings. Including Chen Yinque, Sister Liu and Qian Jibo, all spoke highly of Bai Juyi. But Qian Zhongshu's evaluation of Bai Juyi is not high.
Bai Juyi's collected works are well received in Japan. Heian period and Sugawara no michizane's China Poetry Creation. At that time, when Bohai people saw the mantra poems, they all felt very much like Bai Juyi's poems. This comment made Tao really happy, and he recorded it specially, so he was very proud.
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Bai Juyi was born in the first month of the seventh year of Tang Daizong Dali (772) in Xinzheng, Henan Province, a small and medium-sized bureaucratic family. Shortly after Bai Juyi was born, a war broke out in his hometown. Li Fanzhen is divided into more than ten states in Henan, and the people have suffered from war. When Bai Juyi was two years old, Ren Gongxian's grandfather died in Chang 'an, followed by his grandmother.
Bai Juyi's father, Bai, was first taught by Songzhou Division (780), a magistrate in Pengcheng County, Xuzhou. A year later, Bai and Li Yan, the secretariat of Xuzhou, insisted on Xuzhou's meritorious service and were promoted to Xuzhou special driving. In order to avoid the war in Xuzhou, he sent his family to Suzhou for a peaceful life.
Bai Juyi was able to spend his childhood in Suzhou R&F. Bai Juyi, on the other hand, was brilliant and studied so hard that his mouth was sore and his hands were calloused. Young, all white hair.