From Fengjie to Jiangling, you have to pass through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the middle, and the mountains on both sides of the river are overlapping, "there are often high apes whistling", which is particularly easy to cause the sadness of people who are traveling. The poet said, "I can't stop crying" because he is sailing on the Yangtze River in a fast canoe and listening to the apes crying on both sides.
I saw the mountain shadows on both sides. More than one ape cries, more than one mountain shadow. Because of the speed of boats and pedestrians, crows and mountain shadows become a "piece" between eyes and ears. This is how Li Bai felt about the shadow of the ape mountain when he left the gorge. Sitting on this boat, which is like an arrow leaving the string and flowing downstream, the poet feels extremely carefree and excited.
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Creation background
This poem was written in March 759, the second year of Tang Suzong Gan Yuan. In the first year of Gan Yuan (758), Li Bai was exiled to Yelang for sitting in the case of Li Lin in Wang Yong. The following spring, I went to Baidicheng and suddenly received the news of pardon. The poet was overjoyed and immediately took a boat to Jiangling. This poem was written by the poet when he left Bai Di City and arrived in Jiangling by boat after being forgiven, so it is called "Bai Di Xiajiangling".
Predecessors once thought that this poem was written by Li Bai when he went out to Shu in his youth. However, according to the poem "a thousand miles away in Jiangling, one day" and the inference of Li Bai's trip to the Three Gorges, this poem should have been written when he was pardoned and returned from exile.