Bai Pusheng was at the time when the Jin Dynasty was on the verge of collapse and the Mongol Empire was rising. When the Jin capital, Nanjing (汴梁, in modern Kaifeng, Henan), was captured, Bai Pu was only seven years old.
The poet Yuan Haoqing and his father are classmates and close friends. Bai Pu has been following Yuan Haoqing since he fled. The subtle influence of the great writer Yuan Haowen also played an important role in Bai Pu's future growth and his becoming a famous writer.
Bai Pu spent his life in a wandering skeleton, refusing to leave the army, and his main energy was devoted to literary creation. His outstanding achievements are in the field of miscellaneous dramas and scattered songs. Bai Pu has written a total of 15 kinds of miscellaneous dramas, and there are 3 kinds of "Wutong Rain", "Wall Head Horse" and "East Wall Chronicle" in existence. Among them, it is most famous for "Sycamore Rain".
"Wutong Rain" is a last book, and the end plays the Tang Ming Emperor. The script writes that Emperor Tang Ming favored Yang Guifei and sang and drank every day. After an an-Lushan rebellion, Emperor Ming of Tang hurriedly took refuge with Guifei to Sichuan and went to Ma songpo, the army refused to advance, demanding the killing of Yang's brothers and sisters, and Emperor Ming was forced to make Guifei commit suicide. When the chaos subsided, Emperor Tang Ming returned to the palace and missed the noble concubine every day, but when he finally saw the noble concubine in his dream, he was awakened by the sound of the raindrop sycamore, so he touched the scene and added to the melancholy.
The story of Li Yang is a topic of great concern in the history of literature. The script of "Wutong Rain" writes the story of Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei, from their gathering and joy to separation and sorrow. The oath of the Hall of Eternal Life, the banquet in the imperial garden, the lychee of tribute, and the dance of neon clothes are writing about the joy of their love. And An Lushan's judgment, The Fateful Shu Xi's Departure, Ma Song's Farewell, and Emperor Tang Ming's remembrance are all the pains of life. As he said in the words of "Water Dragon Yin": "Life is a little, sorrow and joy are separated, and love is difficult to send." Bai Pu read and wrote about the sadness of life in Li Yang's story.
The whole script is noticeable with a strong lyricism. As the main body of the script, the lyrics are written in a long and delicate manner. It is both natural and simple, but also has an elegant beauty.
In terms of lyrical unfolding, the whole play firmly grasps the sycamore to make an article, and the sycamore appears again and again in the play until the fourth fold is fully played. In the Chinese literary tradition, the sycamore itself already contains the meaning of mourning, and Wen Tingjun has successfully written the misery of the night rain sycamore in his "more leaky" words: "The sycamore tree, three more rains, the non-confession is more bitter; a leaf, a sound, the empty steps drip to the light." "Moreover, Wutong has so many connections with the lives of Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei at that time, which is a testimony to their emotional life." Therefore, in Tang Minghuang's heart, all the rain sounds were not as good as the sound of raindrops and sycamores, which made him sad.
"Spring wind peach and plum blossom day, autumn rain when the leaves of the sycamore fall", Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" of "autumn rain sycamore" in Bai Pu's script has been fully played, the melancholy color of the sycamore itself, adding lyrical sadness. The conclusion centered on the sycamore also makes the whole drama compact. Coupled with Tang Minghuang's thoughts, pains and sighs in the wind and rain at the end of the script, the script shows a transcendence of the general in conception.
Bai Pu used this familiar and enthusiastic theme to write the pain of "love is difficult to send", and won countless praises with his deep affection and elegance.
"On the Wall" is a successful romantic comedy. Pei Shangshu's son Pei Shaojun rode through the Li family garden, just met Li Qianjin, the daughter of Li Shijie, the governor of Luoyang, leaning against the wall, the two fell in love at first sight, privately decided for life, the matter was broken by the nursing mother, the nursing mother let them go. Li Qianjin lived in hiding in the Pei family garden for seven years, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and was discovered by Pei Shangshu during the Qingming Festival, and a letter of resignation was driven out of the house. Pei Shaojun and di, became The Yin of Luoyang County, wanted to be married to Li Chong, Pei's father knew that Li Qianjin was Li Shijie's daughter, and also came to accompany the conversation, so the family was reunited.
Although the whole script uses the cliché of the love drama in the process of unfolding the plot: the hero and heroine have discussed marriage, but they can be unique, making the development of the story attractive, especially the plots such as the discovery of private people, the expulsion of hiding, and the refusal to remarry, which are both plain and fresh. The image of the heroine Li Qianjin is also vivid and moving in the play.
Compared with other love dramas, "Wall Head Immediately" has less entanglement and more cheerfulness, and the author calmly and objectively shows a love story on the stage with the attitude of a bystander.