The Japanese people's worship of Bai Juyi has reached the point of madness, and even later, the culture contained in Bai Juyi's poetry collection has changed Japanese living habits and culture.
The Tang Dynasty had poets, poets, and poets, and their poems influenced groups of people. However, compared with the poor official fortunes of Li Du and Li Du, the official luck of the poet Bai Juyi can be described as smooth, and he was a jinshi at the age of 27, and he also left poems on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
The poems of Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi also show different styles, compared with Li Bai's heroic elegance and Du Fu's worries and hardships of the country, Bai Juyi's poems are relatively dim.
But his poems are sought after in Various Places in Japan, in China it is a poetry demon, and in Japan, Bai Juyi is "enshrined in the gods". Even today, there are still crazy fans who run to China to sacrifice.
Luoyang Baijuyi Cemetery has many stone tablets inscribed in Japanese, one of which reads:
The great poet Mr. Bai Juyi, you are the benefactor of Japanese culture, you are a literary artist respected by the whole country in Japan, and your contribution to Japan is as heavy as a mountain, and the fragrance of eternity will never be forgotten by my generation.
This is the greatest respect of the Japanese for Bai Juyi, and in Japan, Bai Juyi is used in honorific titles, and no one dares to call him by his name, otherwise it is disrespect for Bai Juyi and will be attacked by the literati. Even Bai Juyi's poetry collection can only write the "Bai's Anthology" or "Bai Le Astronomical Collection", and never dare to write "Bai Juyi's Poetry Collection" directly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > so why are the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu far less popular in Japan than Bai Juyi? What kind of charm does he have? </h1>
Ancient Japan admired the Han culture of the Tang Dynasty, so it sent people to China to study. However, the Tang Dynasty was the peak of world civilization at that time, and its cultural content was extensive, such as Chinese characters, calendars, medicine, architecture, science and technology, etc. These things must be learned back, time naturally takes a long time, and the content that contributes to the development of the country is naturally more important than poetry.
As a result, Li Du's poems were ranked behind the content of the study, but by this time, the poetry demon Bai Juyi came. He encountered the last glorious moment of the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty, when Bai Juyi was in the limelight and dominated the printing world.
Bai Juyi's poetry collection naturally became a "bestseller", and Li Du's poems became "past tense", so Bai Juyi's poems were brought to Japan by Kukai and other Tang envoys.
Living idols are naturally more attractive than the deceased Li Du and others. Moreover, Li Bai's ethereal desire for immortality and Du Fu's feelings of home and country are not felt by the Japanese, and the relative simplicity of white poetry is easy to understand, making it easier for foreigners to learn.
At this time, Japan was in the era of wind and snow, similar to the Wei and Jin dynasties in China. The Wei and Jin literati like to chant the wind and the moon, and the Japanese at this moment also like to chant poems and play the piano in the wind and snow moon, and this background has become a hotbed for learning Bai Juyi's poetry.
What is good on the top will be effective on the bottom. The Japanese aristocracy became popular for learning Bai Juyi's poetry, and the people below naturally imitated it, so every household in Japan at that time regarded Bai Juyi as an idol. If anyone doesn't have one or two poems by Bai Juyi, it's a shame.
From the emperor and the literary magnates to the nobles and the common people are all fans of Bai Juyi. Emperor Saga regarded the "Bai Family Anthology" as his most beloved treasure, because it was not easy for Bai Juyi's anthology to be transmitted to Japan, and what he had in his hand was not printed by the Japanese, but passed on from the Tang Dynasty.
Emperor Saga recited several poems every day, recalling the contents every day, but he was always worried that his treasure would be snatched away, so he hid the poetry collection under his pillow, and even if the next person cleaned the room, he would never let them touch the pillow.
Emperor Daigo even publicly stated: "The seventy volumes of the Paku Collected Writings that I loved in my life are also."
As for the other two super female fans, Zi Shibu and Kiyosho Nayan, after reading Bai Juyi's poems, they created "The Tale of Genji" and "Pillow Grass" respectively, which are known as the treasures of Japanese culture.
Japanese people like Bai Juyi's poetry, mainly compared to the single style of other poets, Bai Juyi has an extremely colorful life.
He once described himself: "The one who stabs the beauty is called irony; the one who chants temperament is called leisure; the one who touches things is called sentimental; and the other is miscellaneous." ”
Rich represents a lot of styles, the Japanese do not fully accept all the styles of Bai Juyi, they prefer leisurely, sad white poetry, and satire, it is not interested.
This is mainly related to the frequent eruptions of volcanoes and earthquakes in Japan, a natural phenomenon that has caused the Japanese soul to have a persistent, silent "mourning", which is now called "mourning" culture. Therefore, Bai Juyi's leisure is touching the nerves of the Japanese people.
Japan's "mourning" culture is still preserved to this day, and they like to design the room to be monotonous in color, with a single space decoration and only a white flower. In the eyes of the Japanese, this is a kind of quiet, low-key, suitable for relaxing and understanding life.
"Farewell to the Ancient Grass"
"Away from the grass on the plains, one year old and one withered away."
Wildfires burn endlessly, and spring winds blow again.
Yuanfang invaded the ancient road, and Qingcui took over the deserted city.
He sent Wang Sun to go again, and he was full of affection. ”
The poem is simple and easy to understand, full of parting emotions, but the poetry is full of philosophical thoughts, which is extremely in line with the Japanese "mourning" state of mind.
Another example is the evaluation of "night, moon, water, and sound" in "Pipa Xing", which fully reflects the ideological realm of "material mourning", so that the Japanese who have been intoxicated in the realm of "material mourning" since ancient times cannot extricate themselves.
The elegance, elegance, and philosophical thinking in Bai Juyi's poems made the Japanese crazy, and in order to get the genuine Bai's anthology printed in the Tang Dynasty, they did not hesitate even if they spent thousands of dollars, just to be able to read an idol poem. Even the artistic conception in Bai Juyi's poems has greatly changed the living habits and thinking about things in The Japanese people.
Even now, the Japanese people's thinking on the style of house decoration and the value of life has everywhere embodied the philosophical idea of "mourning".
Therefore, Bai Juyi is not only a great poet in ancient China, but also a teacher of the development of Japanese culture. The Japanese drew nourishment from Bai Juyi's poems and bred them into big trees, giving birth to a unique Japanese culture. This is the Japanese people's admiration for Bai Juyi, and it is also the pride of our people.