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Bai Juyi

Type Figure Region China Time 772–846 Also known as 白乐天、香山居士、醉吟先生、Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (772–846), style name Letian, sobriquet Xiangshan Jushi, was a famous Tang realist poet and advocate of the New Yuefu movement, known with Y…

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  1. 800–815Chang'an · ShaanxiBai Juyi passed the jinshi examination in the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan and successively served as collator and Left Reminder. While in Chang'an he and Yuan Zhen advocated the New Yuefu movement, holding that 'writing should be for the times and songs for affairs', composing fifty New Yuefu poems and other satirical verse, and gaining great poetic fame.
  2. 816–846Jiangzhou (Xunyang) · JiangxiFor his outspoken remonstrance, Bai Juyi was demoted to be vice-prefect of Jiangzhou, where he wrote the celebrated Pipa Xing. He later served as regional inspector of Hangzhou, Suzhou and elsewhere, retired in his old age as Junior Tutor to the Crown Prince, lived leisurely at Xiangshan in Luoyang, exchanged poems with Liu Yuxi, styled himself 'Zuiyin Xiansheng', and died in Luoyang.

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