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Li He's biography is just a short biography. Although limited by the number of words, there are only more than 500 words, but I described several stories of Li He and expressed my comments and feelings. Li Shangyin pointed out in the first paragraph that other people's records and descriptions of Li He have been very detailed, and what he wrote here is the dictation of Li He's sister. After the article, he said that she didn't just make it up to describe Li He, so what she said was true.
The second paragraph first describes Li He's appearance. He is thin, with eyebrows and slender fingers. He can recite poems hard and write them quickly. Li He was first discovered and appreciated by Han Yu. Li He goes out to play with friends every morning, and never decides on the topic of writing poetry first. He often takes an extremely good boy and a donkey with a tattered backpack on his back. When he has something on his mind, he writes it down, throws it in his backpack, and makes up a poem when he goes back. His mother took out the manuscript inside and found a lot, so she said with emotion, "The child won't stop until he complains." Many of Li He's poems were taken away by his good friends.
The third paragraph tells the story of Li He before his death. Legend has it that Li He saw a fairy driving a red dragon in broad daylight and asked him to write a note for the white jade building newly built by the Emperor of Heaven. Li He died soon after.
The last paragraph is Li Shangyin's argument. With a series of questions, he said that Li He was highly valued by the Heaven Emperor, but not by the common people. Expressed sympathy and regret for Li He's experience, and also satirized the society.
Li He was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. No matter his unfortunate personal fate or his own poetic style, it is worth writing a great work for future generations. Therefore, there are mainly two kinds of Li He's pictures, one is about his portrait, and the other is the calligraphy works of his poems in later generations.
Li he pictures
Li He's portrait mainly highlights two points, one is appearance, and the other is poverty. Li looked at him strangely since he was a child. Disrespect is ugliness. He is slender, with a single eyebrow, that is, his eyebrows are almost together, and his fingers look like chicken feet. When some painters describe Li He's appearance, out of respect for him, they deliberately don't draw these ugly things, such as eyebrows and fingers. These are not obvious, but his thin figure is consistent.
However, Li He's life was bumpy and ill-fated. In portraits, he is often just a shabby and thin plainclothes, looking like a poor scholar. He really looks like a ghost. However, only after Li He was relatively old did he become famous when he was young. Therefore, in the portrait of Li He in this period, he is also the image of a young man. In addition, many portraits of Li He depict him riding a donkey and carrying a backpack to get poetic inspiration, which shows that this allusion in his poems is very common. Li He's portrait often adds Li He's calligraphy works, or a whole poem or a sentence or two in the blank.
Li He's paintings, are there any paintings with only calligraphy? These calligraphy works, cursive, running script or regular script, are masterpieces of ancient calligraphers and imitations of modern people, with different levels, but it can be seen that they are all out of respect for Li He himself and love for his poems.
Li He was born in 790 AD and died in 8 17. He is a famous romantic poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, and is considered as one of the representatives in the transition period from the middle Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty.
Portrait of Li He
The Anshi Rebellion was a turning point from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty, which was formally settled in 763. Li He was born in the sixth year of Zhenyuan, and reigned as the ninth emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Only after his short life of 27 years old died prematurely did two emperors change. At that time, although the Tang dynasty had begun to decline, it still had a national fortune of nearly a hundred years. For the Tang Dynasty, which lasted for almost 300 years, it is generally believed that the Tang Dynasty began to enter the late stage in 836, so Li He was from the middle Tang Dynasty.
Li He was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. He, together with Li Bai and Li Shangyin, was called the "Three Li" in the Tang Dynasty. He is also known as "Shi Gui", as well as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei and Shi Fo. Several of them were great poets in the Tang Dynasty, but they were different from Li He's time. When he was born, Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei had all died for decades, but they were also poets in the middle Tang Dynasty in terms of age. When Li Shangyin was born, he was not far from death. Li Shangyin was counted as a poet in the late Tang Dynasty by later generations. It can also be seen that Li He lived in the middle Tang Dynasty, and some people called him the last poet in the middle Tang Dynasty.
At that time, the decline of the Tang Dynasty was very obvious. The regime of the vassal region, the autocratic power of eunuchs and corrupt officials lead to the corruption of the state affairs, and the final result is that the people suffer cruel oppression and exploitation. Although Li He was a small official all his life, he witnessed many such things with his own eyes and had a deep understanding of the current social situation at that time. Therefore, in addition to many poems that express his talents, he also has many poems that satirize the present to reveal the reality, which are closely related to his time.
Li Jianhe (AD 790 -8 17) was a famous romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. Originally from Longxi, he was born in Changgu, Fuchang, Henan Province (now Sanxiang, Yiyang County, Luoyang, Henan Province), so he was awarded the title of Changgu.
Portrait of Li He
Li He is a descendant of the imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty, but he has been down and out for a long time, so he grew up in a poor family. But his cleverness was not overshadowed by poverty. He can write poetry at the age of seven and is considered a child prodigy. When I grow up, I work hard. I go out by donkey every day. When I think of good poems, I write them down and throw them into my backpack. The allusion of "painstaking care" comes from him. Therefore, although I was young at that time, my poems were already quite famous and were deeply appreciated by literary figures such as Han Yu.
Li He actively joined the WTO all his life, but unfortunately his career has been unsatisfactory. First, I was three years late for the imperial examination for my father's funeral, and then I was jealous, because the "gold" in my father's name and the "gold" in Jinshi were taboo and I couldn't participate. Later, although I was recommended by my father's shadow to take an examination of a nine-level junior official, there was no hope of promotion. Li He ran around for a future, and even worked as an aide for three years, but in the end he failed to achieve fame. He became seriously ill in grief and depression and died young at the age of 27.
Officialdom has to do this, but this does not detract from Li He's achievements in poetry. Like Li Bai and Du Fu, he was called "Shi Gui" by later generations. Li He's poems are famous for their strangeness, and the main content is to express resentment. In addition, there are many poems in the Tang Dynasty that satirize the present by borrowing the past, criticize corrupt officials at that time, and sympathize with the sufferings of the people. He often uses the myths and legends of China's ancient immortals and ghosts. Empress Dowager, Chang 'e and Moon Palace all appear in his poems from time to time, and his imagination is very unrestrained.
Li He's Poetry Li He's poetry is called "long auspicious style" by later generations because of its unique style, which is unique in the poetry world and has great influence. Although Li He died young, he wrote many works. According to records, in the late Tang Dynasty, Li He's poems were compiled into 233 poems, but since the Song Dynasty, there have been 220 poems in four volumes.
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As far as content and subject matter are concerned, Li He's poems can be divided into four types. One is to satirize the present by borrowing from the past. The middle Tang Dynasty in which he lived has begun to decline, and the vassal region is divided, and the dynasty is defeated, and the people are in poverty. This kind of national and social status quo is mainly what Li He did when he was an official. He saw it in his eyes and wrote it in poetry; Secondly, he was angry and lyrical. He was frustrated all his life, so he was angry and dissatisfied. Li He's poems are both positive and heroic, and negative and gloomy. Thirdly, immortals and ghosts are the embodiment of his imagination and romanticism. Li He often shows the falsehood of ghosts and gods and the inevitability of birth, illness and death. Writing more ghosts is also one of the reasons why he is not called "Shi Gui"; The fourth is to praise people or things, in fact, to express themselves and reflect reality.
Li He's poems were influenced by Chu Ci, Han Yuefu, Li Bai and Du Fu. On the one hand, Li He wrote more classical poems, especially Yuefu poems, and seldom wrote modern poems. It is said that he has no seven-character verse. Besides, he wrote fewer long poems and more short poems. On the other hand, Li He's poems have peculiar imagination and gorgeous language. The strangeness is reflected in his description of supernatural beings and the special way of personification, while the magnificence is because he can often scrutinize and cast his own language.
There are many representative works of Li He, such as daydreaming, Wild Goose Gate, Li Ping's Poems, Thirteen Poems of South Garden, etc.