Reading the inscription "Motto" written by Cui Yu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I suddenly felt that the sentence "In Nirvana is not zi, ambiguous contains light", which is very suitable to describe Bai Juyi. The quality of whiteness does not change color even when encountering black dyeing; the color on the surface is dull, and what is inside contains light. Just like Bai Juyi's poems, there are not too many flowery words to embellish, plain and simple language has a fresh and natural beauty; also like Bai Juyi's people, who are arrogant and not proud, and are alone in their own body, they get the best ending.
However, the personality of "inner light" is not something that can be cultivated overnight, at least, in Bai Juyi's youth, he is also a sharp genius teenager. In the "Tang Yan" written by Wang Dingbao of the fifth dynasty of the late Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that when Bai Juyi first went to participate in the imperial examination, he was not yet famous, and he presented his poems to the school secretary Lang Gu. When Gu Quan saw his name, he joked, "Chang'an Migui, it is not easy to live in a big place", until he read the famous poem "Endowed with Ancient Grass Farewell" written by Bai Juyi when he was fifteen years old, "Wildfires burn endlessly, and the spring wind blows and grows again", and he couldn't help but sigh that he could write such a sentence, don't say ju and Chang'an, even if it is difficult to live in the world, what the old man said before was just a joke!
After entering the army, Bai Juyi believed that he was appreciated and promoted by the emperor, so he dutifully fulfilled his duties, frequently wrote letters and wrote a large number of poems that reflected social reality, hoping to make up for the current politics and repay the emperor's kindness. Most of his remarks were adopted, but he thought that the expression was more direct, and sometimes even pointed out the emperor's mistakes in front of the emperor, which made Tang Xianzong a little dissatisfied.
The assassination of Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was a crucial turning point in Bai Juyi's life. The tangtang chancellor was assassinated by the assassins in the street, and the officials and people of the capital were all panicked, and Bai Juyi wrote a letter asking the imperial court to severely punish the murderer. However, political enemies attacked Bai Juyi on the charge of ultra vires, and slandered Bai Juyi for writing poems "Flower Appreciation" and "New Well" after his mother fell into a well because of flower appreciation, which was harmful to the name of religion. Under all kinds of ridiculous charges, Bai Juyi was demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou.
This time he was degraded, so that Bai Juyi's ideal of life changed from "helping the world at the same time" to "being alone".
After Tang Muzong ascended the throne, Bai Juyi's official road became extremely smooth. He was appointed as the Lord's Guest Lang Zhong, Zhi Zhi Zhen, Jia Chao San Dafu, transferred to the Pillar Kingdom, and then transferred to the Zhongshu Ren. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Zhongshu Sheren was in charge of drafting edicts, attendants, proclamations, labor questions, and acceptance of the Shangwen Table, and also managed the affairs of Zhongshu Province, which can be said to be a real and powerful figure. However, only two years later, Bai Juyi wrote to the emperor, requested to be released, and voluntarily left the center of power.
Later, Bai Juyi successively served as the crown prince Zuo Shuzi, the secretary supervisor, the Henan Yin, and the prince Shaofu. The imperial court granted him real power and official positions four times, but Bai Juyi either resigned or took a long period of sick leave after taking office. In his later years, Bai Juyi often sang harmony with Liu Yuxi, traveled around Longmen, and often gathered with scribes.
Rapids and courage are also a kind of responsibility, choosing to live for their own life, sightseeing in the mountains, writing poetry, Bai Juyi's solitude, is a deeply hidden wisdom.