Bai Pu(1226-1306) styled himself Renfu or Taisu, with alias Mr. Langu. He was a native of Yuzhou (now the Hequ County, Shanxi Province). Bai Pu ranks among " the four Master Dramatists of the Yuan Dynasty" with Guan Hanqin, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu. He wrote sixteen plays, now three extant. Over thirty short lyrics and four sequences of Qu poems are found to his credit with a style of simplicity and fresh.
白朴（1226-1306）字仁甫，一字太素，号兰谷先生。祖籍隩州（今山西省河曲县）。白朴与关汉卿、马致远、郑光祖合称“元曲四大家”。一生共创作十六个剧本，现存三种。散曲现存三十多首，套数四篇，风格朴实清晰。
Blowing to the tune of Stoppiing One's Steed to Listen
驻马听·吹
Splitting the rock and piercing the cloud,
裂石穿云，
The flute of jade whines so meditatively aloud.
玉管宜横清更洁，
An expanse of desert lies under the frosty skies,
霜天沙漠，
In the wind a partridge beats and spies,
鹧鸪风里欲偏斜。
The twilight clouds blanket the Phoenix Tower①
凤凰台上暮云遮，
Like evening snow-flakes the music-charmed plum flower petals shower.
梅花惊作黄昏雪。
Quiet now.
人静也，
The last blowing sends down the moon over the river-dominating tower.
一声吹落江楼月。
① The Phoenix Tower: the tower at south of the now Nanjing City, for which Li Bai once composed his "Ode to the Sound of the Flute from Yellow Crane Tower":