Bai Juyi and Fu Li's daughter Xiangling Qingmei Bamboo Horse have a love affair, but they have never received their mother's approval. In the twentieth year of Zhenyuan (804), Bai Juyi moved his mother and brother to live in Xiayi, Huazhou (present-day Linwei District, Weinan City, Shaanxi), and when he was leaving, he again asked his mother to let him take Xiangling. His mother not only refused his request again, but also forbade them to meet.
The image of Bai Juyi in film and television dramas
Bai Juyi, whose heart was like ashes, refused to marry his wife, and in his heart he had left his wife's position to Xiang Ling forever. It was not until the third year of Yuan He (808), when he was 36 years old, that his mother forced him to die and married his friend Yang Yuqing's sister. Although extremely reluctant, Bai Juyi also expressed his adherence to her husband's duties: "Born as a roommate, died as a cave dust." But in life, he couldn't help but accuse and reprimand his wife everywhere, saying that after You are a famous person, you are "not as good as a peasant woman to know the seasons." In fact, he is a prick, Yang Is not a peasant woman, of course, it is not as good as a peasant woman to know the season.
Of course, the Yang clan is not so easy to provoke, but also people with "thoughts" and "bottom lines", saying that you Bai Juyi is easy to engage in the Xinlefu movement, write satirical poems, and ridicule the powerful people of the dynasty.
I don't want my mother to have a mental problem and have a tendency to kill herself. When he was sick, he wiped his neck with a reed knife, but fortunately he found it early and rescued him. Bai Juyi and his younger brother Bai Xingjian found several strong mother-in-laws to watch her, to prevent the sudden onset of illness and hurt themselves. At the same time, he also sent people to visit famous doctors, and although he ate more bitter medicine, his mother's condition never improved.
In the fifth year of Yuan He (810), Bai Juyi asked himself to change the official Jingzhao Fu Hu Cao to join the army, although he left the emperor's side and was farther and farther away from the center of power, but the monthly salary rose from 25,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan, and the family's economic situation greatly improved. Due to the birth of his daughter Jin Luanzi, the house where he originally lived seemed crowded, and Bai Juyi changed to a large house in Xuanpingli and the whole family lived together.
Restoration map of Chang'an City
With a new house, everyone is in a process of slowly becoming familiar with the new environment, and they have not noticed that the yard has an old well that has not been used for many years. In the spring of the following year, my mother came out alone to admire the flowers, and without paying attention, she fell into the well and drowned.
Illness is a long and torturous process, and death means the end of suffering. Bai Juyi helped his mother's coffin back to XiaHao, re-selected the cemetery not far from the village, and moved the coffins of his grandfather, grandmother, father and mother back and buried them in one place. According to the etiquette system of the Tang Dynasty, he had to worry about Ding Ding for three years.
Tombstones in the Bai Cemetery in Weinan, Shaanxi
In the winter of the ninth year of Yuan He (814), Bai Juyi returned to the imperial court and was appointed as the crown prince Zuo Zanshan. This is an idle post, and the court cannot be denied gains and losses, and the scope of activities is limited to the Eastern Palace. But Bai Juyi, who has been holding back in a remote mountain village for more than three years, has too many ideas to express, too much passion to release, what he should say, what he should not say, all want to interject.
Bai Juyi image
On the morning of June 3, 815, the chancellor Wu Yuanheng was killed in the street. The whole city was talking, the atmosphere in the imperial court was suddenly tense, and the clever officials pressed their temperament and waited to see what happened. Bai Juyi, however, was not good at staying in the Eastern Palace, "trespassing his duties", jumped out to manage the affairs of the imperial court, and was the first to neglect the emperor, believing that the assassination of the prime minister on the street was a national shame, and the murderer and the black hand hiding behind the scenes should be thoroughly investigated. As a result, he was immediately attacked by political enemies: his mother fell into a well and died because of seeing flowers, but Bai Juyi wrote poems "Flower Appreciation" and "New Well" during the funeral.
Tang Xianzong first demoted Bai Juyi to jiangzhou assassin history, then added edicts, and then demoted him to Sima of Jiangzhou.
In the autumn of that year, Bai Juyi took the Yang clan and many domestic prostitutes to Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province) to take up his post. They set out from Lantian to Xiangyang, visited the house where Bai Juyi had lived with his father when he was twenty years old, and then sailed south.
The boat traveled to the Ezhou river section, and God actually let him meet xiangling, who had not been seen in ten years. At this time, Bai Juyi was 43 years old, and Xiang Ling was also 39 years old, the years were merciless, but people had feelings, and the two embraced each other and cried. Xiang Ling has never been married, wandering around with his father, needing help from others. Perhaps because Bai Juyi wants to keep the promise before marrying yang, or maybe it is because his wife's position has been occupied by Yang and he is unwilling to grievance Xiangling; perhaps Xiangling Bingxue is smart, he is about to grow old and fading, rather than letting love turn into affection, it is better to let love become a memory. So she chose to disappear under Bai Juyi's eyes, and came another beautiful "miss".
One day in the autumn of the following year, when Bai Juyi was bidding farewell to a friend at the Xiangpu Pass at the head of the Xunyang River, he heard someone on the boat playing the pipa, which was a popular rhyme in Kyoto, so he invited her to sit down and play a few more songs. The singer played and complained, detailing her own life. It turned out that this was a singer from Chang'an, with a faded red face and married a merchant. The merchant went to Fuliang last month to do tea business, leaving her alone at the mouth of the river to keep an empty boat. The night was deeper, and she dreamed of the joy and revelry of her youth, and woke up crying from the dream, so she played the lute on the boat to relieve her boredom.
The singer's life made Bai Juyi think of himself, thinking of Xiang Ling, who was wandering with his father, and he was deeply touched, so he wrote a long poem to give to the singer, entitled "Pipa Line":
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This year's laughter is repeated next year, autumn moon and spring breeze and other leisure.
The younger brother went to join the army aunt and died, and twilight went to the color of the past.
Kurama was snubbed in front of the door, and the boss was married as a merchant's wife.
Merchants weighed profits and parted ways, and the former moon floating beam bought tea to go.
Go to the mouth of the river to guard the empty boat, around the boat Moon Ming River water cold.
Late at night, I dream of juvenile affairs, and dream of tears and tears!
I smelled the pipa and sighed, and I heard the words chirping again.
The same is the end of the world fell people, why should they have met each other!
Through the description of the pipa girl's superb playing skills, through the introduction of her unfortunate experience, this poem closely links the sound and the thing with emotion, and the sound rises with the emotion, and the love moves with the event, so that the process of the poem is always accompanied by moving emotional power. Although Bai Juyi and Ge Nu had never known each other in the past, they had common unfortunate encounters, both fell from the bustling capital to this remote place, and their inner emotions were nowhere to be found, so they issued a sigh of "the same is the fallen person at the end of the world, why did they ever know each other", expressing the same disease and pity, the same voice corresponding feelings.
Back at the residence, Bai Juyi rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and found a pair of mille-feuille bottom cloth shoes pressed at the bottom of the box. This pair of cloth shoes was given to him by Xiang Ling at the Fu Li Ferry When he left Fu Li and was preparing to go to Chang'an to participate in the "Quan Selection". Xiang Ling told Bai Juyi through these shoes that she wanted to be like these shoes, walk with him, and stop together. At that time, Bai Juyi was tightly holding the cloth shoes in his hands, and the five were cracked, and the shoes could still be double-lined, but people wanted to be different. He wrote a poem "Nanpu Farewell": "Nanpu is miserable, and the west wind is autumn." A look at the intestines are broken, so go back! He told Xiang Ling that he couldn't turn back, and that life made all I love you turn into sorry.
At this moment, Bai Juyi took the cloth shoes in his hand, looked at them repeatedly, and turned the river and the sea again in his heart: "People only walk with their shoes, how can they ever be similar?" "Shoes are still in pairs, but people have become singles, where is there a little similarity between people and shoes?"