The Research Of Bai Juyi Miscellaneous Verses

As a giant in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi has the massive number of poetry, and he contributes much to the poetic theory. In the tenth year of Yuan He(815AD), Bai gets enlightenment and stimulation of his friend’s classification thought, according to the four elements’ propotion(righteousness, emotion, word, sound), Bai Juyi categorized his poems into four types: satirical poems, leisure poems, sentimental poems and miscellaneous verses. The four classification has important theoretical value and significance.In the four types of poems of Bai Juyi, the number of miscellaneous verses are far more than the other three types. There are about 1950 poems has spread, accounted for 76.4% of Bai Juyi’s poetry. His miscellaneous verse are diverse genres and distinctive, the Five-character quatrains and Seven-character quatrains are plain and simple and heavier than meticulous, the Five-character verses and Seven-character verses are popular intelligible narrative, the Long extended form are antithesis and good at elaborate. In content express and the expression of the theme, Bai’s miscellaneous verses are mainly poems presented sing, landscape chanting, political lyric and daily life. All kinds of poems have a large number, and they are on the basis of the original breakthrough innovation. Bai Juyi’s miscellaneous verses are not only diverse, but also have the characteristic of plain and popular style. Investigate its reason, there are three factors: one is in terms of external objective environment, the late Tang prevailing social change and innovative thinking "Vulgar as Elegance" literary atmosphere; The second is for white poem ontology creation, white miscellaneous verses’ language expression and phrasing tendency of life; The third is Bai Juyi’s Zen Buddhism belief, with "common heart is doctrine" as the rule of faith had a effect of hie poetry.The plain and popular style of Bai Juyi’s miscellaneous verses, had created a “popular understand” school poetry for the Late Tang Dynasty poet accepted and worshiped, and emerged the “Bai’s style” poets group in Early Song Dynasty. Meanwhile, endless Bai Juyi’s miscellaneous verses of “small pieces chapter” and “rhyming with pay” as the representative of the “Yuan He”, also are loved by people and imitate competing for race, and have had a profound and great impact for the Mid-Tang Dynasty and later poetry.