On Bai's Outlook On Life

The thesis probes into Bai Juyi the characteristics of philosophy of life mainly.The philosophy of Bai Juyi is the shows and response of the Middle-Tang's crisis.The core of Bai Juyi's philosophy of life is the common customs.The full text divides into four chapters altogether.Chapter one describes the philosophy of life of common customs nature. With the pursueing of the imperial examination system, the multitudinous clan landlord rises, They have characteristic of quality of common customs in the Tang Dynasty. When the faiths of people changed, the common life had legalized gradually. The whole society is full of pursueing the position and wealth,sensual pleasure song and dance and atmosphere with rich and powerful long life. Bai Juyi's poems have a lot of description about the common customs quality. The quality of common customs is the basic characteristic of Bai Juyi's philosophy of life.It's also the feature of the scholars of Middle-Tang.Chapter two discourses the sense of participation.The Chinese culture has a kind of'order plot of quality ", It is the ethics order of a kind of common customs that is defined by the Confucianists.The Middle -Tang is the era of a turmoil which needs to be rebuilt in the national order badly. The philosophy of life embodies the political activity of rebuilding the national order mainly.This kind of philosophy of life only reflects in his early experience, fewer and fewer on later stage. The scholars of Middle-Tang didn't regard the participation as all value already.Chapter three describes the recluse philosophy. This kind of philosophy of life is the concrete practice of the Bai Juyi's philosophy of life. It inherits the Tao Yuanming's recluse philosophy, and influences the Sushi's recluse philosophy.Chapter four discourses the idle philosophy . It analyses the meaning and origin. And it elaborates the asethetic realm of the idle philosophy. It's the extensions of philosophy of life. It reflects the change which advances from the export -oriented type to the introverted type.