After the change of Ganlu, Bai Juyi lived in the Xiangshan Temple all day long, and gave himself up to poetry and wine to find his own happiness. As soon as the fast comes, I will eat vegetarian food and stop drinking wine. When fasting, he would never drink, or use soup instead of wine. During his stay in Xiangshan, Bai Juyi compiled more than 800 poems he wrote in Luoyang into ten volumes, called Bai's Luo Zhong Ji. Bai Juyi also made friends with Xiangshan monks, and made incense stoves with Monk Ruman. Also with the retired officials of that dynasty, the old people in Luozhong and Guiluo, Ma Hu Gao, Ji Jiao, Zheng Ju
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