Yuanhe Tenth Year

The opening line of Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing" says: "In the tenth year of Yuanhe, I moved to the left to Sima, Jiujiang County." This sentence is said very calmly, just like the early stage of music, when the strings are played softly and there is no time to lay out; the brush and ink are just falling, and the faint marks and blurs have not formed a pattern. This year is AD 815, and everyone in the world will remember it from now on. Just like people remember the ninth year of Yonghe for the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" and the fourth year of Qingli for the "Yueyang Tower". Their poems and articles all record the touching moments. But people may not necessarily remember those thrilling days that Bai Juyi Yuanhe experienced in ten years.