Where is the Xunyang River? It's the "Xunyang River" in "Xunyang River Seeing Off Guests on the First Night" in "Pipa Xing".

"Xunyang River" is a section of the Yangtze River that flows through the north of Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. Because Jiujiang was called Xunyang in ancient times, it is also called Xunyang River.

Source: "Pipa Xing" by Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi. This is a popular realist masterpiece. The whole text uses characters as clues to describe both the Pipa girl's life experience and the poet's feelings, and then converges on the two sentences "We are both fallen people at the end of the world". This poem is touching with emotion, narrates events, and describes characters all with lyrical color.

Excerpt from the original text: The Xunyang River sees off guests on the first night, and the maple leaves and flowers bloom in autumn. The master dismounted and was on board the boat. He wanted to drink wine, but there was no orchestra. It's too late to be drunk and happy to say goodbye. When we say goodbye, the vast river is soaked in the moon.

Translation: On an autumn night, I went to see off a returning guest at the head of the Xunyang River. The cold wind blew the autumn leaves and reed flowers rustling. My guests and I dismounted and held a farewell banquet on the boat. We raised our glasses to drink, but the music did not entertain us. I was not happy after drinking the wine and was even more sad that I was about to say goodbye. When I said goodbye, the bright moon was reflected in the vast river at night. Extended information

Creative background: In June of the 10th year of Yuanhe (815), assassins sent by the vassal forces of the Tang Dynasty stabbed the Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng to death on the streets of Chang'an, and stabbed the Censor Zhongcheng Pei Du, causing an uproar between the government and the public. The forces in the vassal town further demanded the removal of Pei Du in order to calm the vassal town's "rebellious" intentions.

Bai Juyi advocated the strict arrest of the murderer, and was suspected of "exceeding his duties"; moreover, Bai Juyi usually wrote allegorical poems, which offended the powerful officials in the court, so he was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. Sima was the assistant to the governor. In the mid-Tang Dynasty, most "criminal" officials were specially placed, which was a disguised form of distribution.

This incident had a great impact on Bai Juyi and was a turning point in his ideological changes. From then on, his early fighting spirit gradually faded away and his negative emotions increased day by day. In the autumn of the 11th year of Yuanhe (816 AD), Bai Juyi had been demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for two years. When he was seeing off guests at the head of the Xunyang River, he happened to meet a singer who became famous for her skills in her youth but was abandoned in her old age. She felt depressed. , combined with his own experiences on the road, he used the genre of song to create the famous "Pipa Xing" (the original work "Pipa Yin").

About the author: Bai Juyi (772-846), courtesy name Letian and Xiangshan Jushi, was born in Xinzheng, Henan. Realist poet of Tang Dynasty. He was a Jinshi in Zhenyuan and was awarded the title of Secretary Provincial Secretary. Later he moved to Zuo Qianyi and Zuo Zanshan, officials.

In the 10th year of Yuanhe (815), Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng was assassinated. Bai Juyi advocated the strict arrest of the murderer. He was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima for overstepping his duties and served successively as the governor of Hangzhou, the governor of Suzhou, and the minister of punishment. wait. When he died in the sixth year of Huichang (846), he was given a posthumous title and posthumous title by You Pushe, the minister. Bai Juyi was excellent in both poetry and prose. He advocated that "articles should be combined to suit the occasion, and songs and poems should be combined to suit the event." He was an advocate of the New Yuefu Movement.

The language of his poems is popular, and he is called "Yuan Bai" together with Yuan Zhen, and "Liu Bai" together with Liu Yuxi. His representative poems include "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Xing", etc. "Bai's Changqing Collection" has been handed down from generation to generation. He is called the "Poetry King" and "Poetry Demon" by later generations.