Who did Bai Juyi send to Xunyangjiangtou?
What Bai Juyi sent to Xunyangjiangtou was Chen Xiangling.
1. Bai Juyi’s Xunyangjiangtou Incident comes from "Pipa Xing" created in the 11th year of Yuanhe (816). During his tenure as an admonisher, Bai Juyi dared to speak his mind, sympathized with the sufferings of the people, and wrote many satirical poems, which angered Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty and dissatisfied the court ministers. In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Li Shidao from the feudal town sent people to assassinate Prime Minister Wu Yuanheng. In a hurry, Bai Juyi submitted a report to arrest the assassin, which offended the court. He was reprimanded for acting as a substitute and was demoted to the governor of Jiangzhou. He also falsely accused him of "hurting the famous religion", "New Well" and "Appreciating Flowers", and was demoted to the Sima of Jiangzhou. Jiangzhou was regarded as a "barbaric miasma" at that time. The position of Jiangzhou Sima was nominally the governor, but in fact it was an idle official position. Bai Juyi found it ridiculous. His demotion was actually an unfair thing. He was hit hard one after another, feeling depressed and full of anger. The next year, he left Pukou and wrote this famous poem.
2. When Bai Juyi was 11 years old, to avoid the war in his hometown, he moved his family with his mother to Fuli (now Fuli Town, Yongqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province) where his father Bai Jigeng was an official. Later, he met a girl from the east who was 4 years younger than him. Her name was Chen Xiangling. Xiang Ling was lively and cute, knew music and could write poems, so the two became inseparable playmates day and night. When Bai Juyi was 19 years old and Xiang Ling was 15 years old, they had their first love. Bai Juyi has a poem called "The Neighbor Girl", which recounts the fifteen-year-old Xiang Ling and praises her beauty and her sweet voice. In the fourteenth year of Zhenyuan (798), when Bai Juyi was 27 years old, he had to leave Fu Li and live with his uncle in Jiangnan for the sake of family life and his own future. Along the way, he wrote three poems in memory of Xiang Ling. They are "Send to Xiangling", "A Night in the Boudoir" and "Sauvignon Blanc". It can be clearly seen from the poem that Bai Juyi and Xiang Ling have a deep relationship after 17 years of getting along and 8 years of love. After the separation, not only did I miss each other bitterly, but I also considered getting married. But Chen Xiangling was worried that her family's family status was low and she would not be able to catch up to Bai Juyi. Finally, he expressed his sincere wish that heaven will surely come true and that we can walk side by side step by step. At the beginning of the 16th year of Zhenyuan, Bai Juyi was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 29. He lived in Hui Fuli for nearly 10 months. He sincerely asked his mother to marry Xiang Ling, but his mother, who had strong feudal ideas, refused. Xiang Ling's father, Chen Yitian, nicknamed Chen Banxian, was a Feng Shui expert. Bai Juyi had no choice but to leave home with extremely painful mood. In the autumn of the tenth year of Zhenyuan (AD 804), Bai Juyi became a school clerk in Chang'an and had to move his family to Chang'an. He returned home and once again begged his mother to allow him to marry Xiang Ling. He refused his request and refused to allow the family to see each other when they moved out. Their marriage was hopeless, but their deep love did not end. Bai Juyi punished his mother for her mistake by not marrying others, and wrote poems in memory of Xiang Ling three times: "Embracing Xiang Ling on Winter Solstice Night", "Feeling Autumn and Send Far Away" and "Send Far Away". In the past eight years, his mother never allowed Bai Juyi to meet Xiang Ling, nor allowed him to mention Xiang Ling. When Bai Juyi was 37 years old, he was forced to die by his mother and was introduced to Yang Rushi's sister. However, he still wrote poems in memory of Xiang Ling until the seventh year of Yuanhe. For example, "Night Rain", "Sense of Mirror", etc. Later, Bai Juyi was wronged and was demoted to Jiangzhou. On the way, he and Mrs. Yang met the wandering father and daughter of Xiang Ling. Bai Juyi and Xiang Ling held each other's arms and cried, and wrote a poem titled "Reunion". At this time, Bai Juyi was 44 years old and Chen Xiangling was 40 years old. Chen Xiangling, who had always loved Bai Juyi deeply in her heart, returned a poem and gave Bai Houyi the poem "Meeting the Old", and then went north with her father back to her hometown of Fuli. Chen Xiangling never married from then on. After Bai Juyi sent Xiang Ling off at night, he wrote "Pipa Xing" in one stroke. After personally experiencing this tragic love, he completed this eternally famous poem "Pipa Xing" when Bai Juyi was 53 years old. , on his way back to Luojing, Ren Man, the governor of Hangzhou, came to Fuli for the last time. When he saw the old village changed and his neighbor Xiang Ling disappeared, the tragedy of this 35-year love affair ended. Full stop to leave.