Good evening everyone. Thanks for tuning in.

Lhasa Montgomery here with the penultimate episode in our series that sort of, kind of,

offered you a little overview of the history of poetry and the Tang Dynasty.

I think we've lingered long enough in the high

tongue and that we might move on to the middle tongue period. This is the post-Anlushan rebellion era. All the greats who are revered today and who we previously

discussed in past episodes, Leibai, Du Fu, Hmong Wei, Hao Ran, they were all gone.

And the Emperor too, whose Cayenne era name defined those times,

that, among other accolades was called China's golden age of poetry.

Emperor Shenzhen, he too, by 762 was gone.

Around the year 772, Baijoui was born, another tongue poet beloved throughout the ages for his particular

style of poetry of what he stood for.

He, like Du Fu and others I mentioned, had a pretty strong social conscience that didn't go over too well with the establishment.

He wanted to give the common people a better deal

than what they had traditionally gotten from Chinese society. I have friends

who will swear he was the greatest. Bai Chuyu Kyuee, he has a lot of fans among the cognizanti.

He was born in Ta-Yuan in the very same Shanxi province as Wong Wei,

but spent his early years in southern Hunan.

He came from a poor but educated family and his father was a minor, cog in the government

bureaucracy.

There was an old saying, I mentioned it before,

so Guanfah,

attain riches through working in the government.

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