Study Of Bai Juyi’s Poems About Prostitutes

The Tang Dynasty was an era of open-mindedness and hedonism prevailed.Such a free and open social atmosphere and youthful and romantic scholarly fashion made Tang Dynasty literati frequently interact with the class of "prostitutes",leaving behind many romantic stories and beautiful chapters.Bai Juyi,a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty,had a close relationship with Tang prostitutes and left many poems for him.Therefore,Bai Juyi’s poems of prostitute are very representative.These poems of prostitute are rich in content and record Bai Juyi’s prostitute life.Through his research on poems of prostitute,we can spy on the sensual and sensual prostitute culture in the Middle Tang Dynasty,and can also provide us with Get a new perspective on Bai Juyi’s life and thought.This paper is mainly composed of three parts: introduction,main body and conclusion.The introduction part briefly reviews the research status of Bai Juyi’s prostitute poetry and makes a clear definition of Bai Juyi’s prostitute poetry.The main body discusses the prostitute poems created by Bai Juyi from four aspects:First of all,Bai Juyi’s writing experience of prostitute poetry is closely related to his career as an official.Bai Juyi has been in close contact with prostitutes since his entrance examination in Chang’an and his retirement.It can be said that Bai Juyi’s experience of interacting with "prostitutes" is related to his entire official career.Therefore,based on the change of Bai Juyi’s official position,this section will initially divide Bai Juyi’s official career into four stages: entering and leaving Chang’an,being banished to Jiangzhou,leaving Suzhou and Hangzhou,and retreating to Luoyang.From these four stages,we will examine him and prostitutes.and the poems created by him,and grasp Bai Juyi’s thought changes.Secondly,Bai Juyi wrote more than 150 poems involving prostitutes,and "prostitutes" played different roles in the poems.Bai Juyi’s attitude towards prostitutes is complex and contradictory,and his different attitudes towards Tang prostitutes affect the role setting of "prostitutes" in poetry.Therefore,based on the text of Bai Juyi’s prostitute poems,this section makes a detailed analysis of the roles of Tang prostitutes in the poems,reflecting Bai Juyi’s special affection for "prostitutes".Again,the themes of Bai Juyi’s prostitute poems are rich and varied.Compared with other poems he wrote,the thematic meaning of Bai Juyi’s prostitute poems has undergone new changes on the basis of inheritance.In Bai Juyi’s prostitute poems,there are different themes from Bai Juyi’s other poems,and even if the same theme is expressed,the expression techniques and emotions are also different,showing the uniqueness of his prostitute poems.Finally,Bai Juyi’s prostitute poems have unique literary value.Bai Juyi’s use of narrative skills,the use of contrasting techniques,and the easy-to-understand language all form the unique charm of prostitute-related poetry.The acceptance and criticism of Bai Juyi’s prostitute poems by later literati affected their creation of prostitute poems to a certain extent.The conclusion part mainly makes a summary of the research situation of the thesis,and proposes the questions to be further studied.