Tudy Of The Bai Juyi’s Poetic Pond Imagery

The article is mainly intended to take the pond image of Bai Juyi’s poetry as its subject. The main body of the article is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is to summarize Bai Juyi’s poetic pond imagery. The article first of all makes a definition for the pond imagery. The pond image of Bai Juyi’s poetry discussed in the article refers to the artificial courtyard pool. Bai Juyi focused on the pond in the garden, hostel and temple in Bai’s poem. Then, the chapter statistics the pond image of Bai Juyi’s poetry. This can be the foundation of the article. The pond image of Bai Juyi’s poetry is concentrated on his late poems after the relegated period in Jiangzhou.The second chapter is to analyze the causes leading to the forming of the pond image of Bai Juyi’s poetry and aesthetic characteristics of the pond imagery. The article will analyze the causes from the following two aspects:1. The section is to discuss Bai Juyi’s personal political experience, mainly with the social reality in the middle Tang dynasty.2. Literati garden in the Tang dynasty developed greatly.lt indicates that the emergence of the pond image of Bai Juyi’s poetry is closely related to his gardening activities and lifestyle. Then from the landscape aesthetics angle, the section discusses that the aesthetic characteristics of the pond image include lustration, clarity and reflection.That Bai Juyi likes the pool water and has a aesthetic attitude towards pool water is closely related to the Bai Juyi’s attitude to life and the value orientation in his late period.The third chapter is to discuss leisurely interest of Bai Juyi’s poetic pond imagery. The pond is the great garden landscape to go sightseeing and enjoy. Bai Juyi’s leisurely and comfortable life by the pond were mainly reflected in five aspects as following:boating on the pond water; drinking by the pond;cooling by the pond gathering and sightseeing in the garden and watching the fish and the lotus flower. These were the reflection of Bai Juyi’s late leisure mentality and leisure life. Then the article explores the reasons for Bai Juyi’s relaxed state of mind from four aspects, such as alone thoughts of Confucianism and contentment thoughts of Taoism, Bai Juyi’s origin and the political environment.The fourth chapter is to discuss that the pond imagery is the reflection of reclusive culture. Bai Juyi and Tao Yuanming respectively are the hermitage typical of Tang dynasty and Wei Jin and represent the different stages of development of the seclusion culture. The article is intended to make a comparison of retirement between Bai Juyi and Tao Yuanming from the four aspects. The most obvious external difference is the seclusion dwelling places:Bai Juyi lived a secluded life in the garden; Tao Yuanming returned to the field.This shows that in the Tang dynasty gardens become the carrier of the literati reclusive idea.So as the most important landscape in the Bai Juyi’s garden, the pond has the reclusive meaning. Then,the section is to discuss that the pond represents Bai Juyi’s reclusive mentality.The reclusive thoughts of Taoism also has a influence on the pond image in Bai Juyi’s poetry.