Bai Juyi (白居易) | 24 Histories

Overview

Bai Juyi was a Poet and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 822 to AD 824 及白居易復浚西湖
Uncertain · History of Song 96, passage 65
AD 772 to AD 846 文摹左氏
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 298, passage 155
AD 833 to AD 837 東都退居時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 173, passages 236, 244
AD 772 to AD 846 白氏諷諫集
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 166

Key source chapters

History of Jin, Chapter 127 Volume 127 Biographies 65: Xiao You, Wendihanwolubu, Chen Yan, Liu Yu, Meng Xing, Wang Zhen, Liu Zheng, Yin Yi, Chu Chengliang, Wang Qufei, Zhao Zhi, Du Shisheng, Hao Tianting, Xue Jiyuan, Gao Zhongzhen, Zhang Qian, Wang Rumei, Song Ke, Xin Yuan, Wang Yuke 1 passage
History of Ming, Chapter 298 Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses 1 passage
History of Song, Chapter 96 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Rivers and Canals 6 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 173 Volume 173 Biographies 98: Pei Du 1 passage

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Song 96, passages 64-65
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 244
At Hangzhou 杭 · Relation Posted to
Strongly inferred · History of Song 96, passages 64-65

Works and attributed material

Collection of Admonitions and Satires 白氏諷諫集
Relation Author
Directly stated · History of Jin 127, passage 166

Events and relationships

Again dredged West Lake, led water into the transport canal, and irrigated a thousand qing
Hydraulic · Director · At West Lake 西湖
Directly stated · History of Song 96, passage 65
Relation Literary companion of · Person Liu Yuxi (劉禹錫)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 244

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 244

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 65: Xiao You, Wendihanwolubu, Chen Yan, Liu Yu, Meng Xing, Wang Zhen, Liu Zheng, Yin Yi, Chu Chengliang, Wang Qufei, Zhao Zhi, Du Shisheng, Hao Tianting, Xue Jiyuan, Gao Zhongzhen, Zhang Qian, Wang Rumei, Song Ke, Xin Yuan, Wang Yuke · 1 passage

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年二十五始知讀書，取《白氏諷諫集》自試，一日便能背誦。 At twenty-five he first learned to read; he took Bai Juyi's Collection of Admonitions and Satires to test himself and could recite it in a single day.

History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 1 passage

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文摹左氏，詩擬白居易、蘇軾、陸游，字仿黃庭堅，併為世所愛重。 His prose modeled Zuo Qiuming, his poetry Bai Juyi, Su Shi, and Lu You, and his calligraphy Huang Tingjian. All were loved and esteemed in his day.

History of Song, Chapter 96Volume 96 Treatises 49: Rivers and Canals 6 · 1 passage

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及白居易復浚西湖，引水入運河，復引溉田千頃。 Bai Juyi later dredged West Lake again, channeling its water into the transport canal and irrigating a thousand qing of fields.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 173Volume 173 Biographies 98: Pei Du · 1 passage

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度野服蕭散，與白居易、劉禹錫為文章、把酒，窮晝夜相歡，不問人間事。 Du dressed simply and lived at ease, writing and drinking with Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi day and night, heedless of public affairs.