Bai Juyi (白居易) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Bai Juyi as a poet and writer. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Bai Juyi	白居易	Bai Juyi
Surname	Bai	白	Bai
Personal name	Bai Juyi	白氏	Bai

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jinshi:127:s0166, mingshi:298:s0155

Roles

Poet
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 文摹左氏 · Western Interval: Start: AD 772 · End: AD 846
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:298:s0155
Source Date: Text: 白氏諷諫集 · Western Interval: Start: AD 772 · End: AD 846
Explicit · jinshi:127:s0166

Works and attributed material

Work: Collection of Admonitions and Satires / 白氏諷諫集 · Relation: author
Explicit · jinshi:127:s0166

References in the histories

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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.