Under what circumstances did Bai Juyi create that famous classic sentence "Wildfire Never Ends"?

"The endless grass on the plain comes and goes with each season. Wildfire can't burn it out, but the spring breeze can revive it. Weeds and wild flowers are all over the ancient road, and the end of the grass in the sun is your journey. Oh, my friend's prince, you left again, and I heard them sigh behind you. "

This well-known poem is Bai Juyi's Farewell to Ancient Grass.

This poem has been handed down to this day, and some of its sentences have become well-known classics. So, what is the story behind this poem? Today we will talk about Bai Juyi's poem Farewell to Ancient Grass.

In the third year of Tang Zhenyuan, in 787 AD, 16-year-old Bai Juyi came to Chang 'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to take part in the imperial examination and visit celebrities to study.

Bai Juyi visited a famous scholar named Gu Kuang, and Gu Kuang was a famous scholar at that time. He works as a writer in Chang 'an, and there are many students studying under his door. Bai Juyi is just one of them.

At that time, in order to get Gu Kuang's guidance, students were asked to present their own poems. These poems are written for exams, so they have a fixed format and style.

The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty required poems to be neat, clear in transition and clear in content. Although this kind of propositional composition is not as rough and rigid as the later eight-part essay, it also greatly limits the author's writing space, so it is difficult to have such high-quality poems.

When Gu Kuang saw Bai Juyi at a young age, he was somewhat contemptuous at first. He joked with Bai Juyi's name, "Mi Gui, it's so lively." In other words, the price in Chang 'an is relatively high, and it is not easy to "live".

However, when Gu Kuang saw Bai Juyi's poem Farewell to Ancient Grass, he was immediately amazed. He didn't expect Bai Juyi at a young age to write such amazing poems in the case of exam-oriented composition. Gu Kuang changed his tune and said, "You can live with words." This is tantamount to acknowledging Bai Juyi's literary talent.

From then on, Bai Juyi rose to fame and became a rising star in Ran Ran's literary world, attracting worldwide attention.

Bai Juyi has not lost his talent. He later became a scholar and achieved good results in his official career. He has made great achievements in literature and is called "the king in poetry" and "the devil in poetry".

And all this started with the song Farewell to the Ancient Grass, which is Bai Juyi's famous work.

We often say that the eight-part essay in Ming and Qing Dynasties is bound by people's hearts and divorced from reality, but in fact, most of the contents of imperial examinations in China's history are relatively rigid. Except for a few political strategies, most of them are propositional compositions, and the Tang Dynasty is no exception.

There is no fixed answer to political strategy, so it is difficult to grasp the score, and because there are many scruples about criticizing the shortcomings, if the examiner himself has political tendencies, it is not fair to the candidates. Therefore, the fixed style proposition composition has become a relatively fair examination method.

In fact, this kind of examination system similar to proposition composition is more conducive to "poor children" and students with poor family circumstances.