title: BAI JUYI AND ORIGINS OF THE NEW YUEFU
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metadata.value: Storozhuk, Alexander
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metadata.value: 2024-03-04T17:31:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-03-04T17:31:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063770.07
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45038
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metadata.value: The first poetic cycle of 50 New Yuefu was written by Bo Juyi (白居易, 772–846)
  in 809 after the works of by his friend Li Shen (李紳, 772–846). Bo Juyi wrote it simultaneously
  with another great Tang poet Yuan Zhen (元稹, 779–831), and the new literary
  style has been known for centuries as Yuan-Bo (元白). Both of the poets shared the
  same attitude towards the role of letters in the society and aspired to implement their
  credo at the official posts they held. The origin of New Yuefu philosophy dates back at
  least to 806, when he together with Yuan Zhen created the illustrious political composition
  known as Celin (策林), where the bulk of their sociopolitical concepts were pronounced
  and stated. Most of these notions, inspired by Fugu movement, seem quite
  predictable and naive: the belief in an omni harmonizing role of ancient ritual, claim
  of necessity to promote worthy and knowledgeable, appeal to stop war and cut taxes.
  With all that this was a declaration of primary of benevolence over quasi orderliness, and this idea fully revealed later in New Yuefu poetry. Surely enough, New Yuefu have
  not been limited to the 50 poems, inspired by Li Shen. The new poetic experience gave
  birth to a whole literary trend, covering the most burning, up-to-date issues of contemporaneousness
  as well as the nearest past, picturing typical characters of different
  strata, pointing out social diseases and perils. The absolute trust in uppermost ritual
  role of a text has been embodied in such texts as, for example, Song of Eternal Grief
  (《長恨歌》), where the infamous story of Emperor Xuan-zong (玄宗, 685–762) and his
  favorite concubine Yang Gui-fei (楊貴妃, 719–756) found a new interpretation, that later
  would have become mainstream. Thus, the main conclusions are: 1) New Yuefu had
  a philosophic basement, carried out long before the first poem of the new style appeared;
  2) its main goal was to revive the actual social role of poetry; 3) it had a great
  impact on the later Chinese poetry and social thought.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities;Volume 5
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bo Juyi
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of Chinese literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: yuefu
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political treatise
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: BAI JUYI AND ORIGINS OF THE NEW YUEFU
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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