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Li Bai, whose word is too white, is called a violet layman. Born in Broken Leaf City in the Western Region, he was originally from Ji Cheng in Longxi (now Qin 'an in Gansu) and grew up in Sichuan. He left home at the age of about 25 and traveled all over China. In the first year of Tianbao (742), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty went to Chang 'an to be an official. Because he didn't want to flatter the powerful, he continued to wander around and was exiled from Beijing. His poems are mostly manifested in his dissatisfaction with feudal dignitaries and his love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland; He is the representative of China's romantic poetry. He was praised as a "poetic fairy" by later generations.
He is good at absorbing nutrients from folk songs and myths, forming his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors, which is the new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan.
A large number of his poems not only reflected the prosperity of that era, but also exposed and criticized the debauchery and corruption of the ruling group, showing the positive spirit of despising the powerful, resisting the traditional bondage and pursuing freedom and ideals. Li Bai and Du Fu, also known as Du Li, are recognized as the greatest poets in the history of Tang Dynasty and even China.
It was when Li Bai was seven years old that his father wanted to give his son a formal name. Li Bai's parents love reading and want to cultivate their son into a refined and refined person. Father usually likes to teach children to read and write poems. When he was brewing his name, he discussed with his mother and tested his son's ability to write poetry while walking in the yard.
My father looked at the lush flowers and trees in the spring courtyard and began to recite poems: "Spring sends warm flowers, and early spring comes." Mother went on to say, "burning leaves and red clouds have fallen."
Li Bai knew that his parents had memorized the first three sentences of the poem and deliberately left the last sentence, hoping to continue. He went to the blooming plum blossom, thought for a moment and said, "Plum blossoms are in full bloom."
"White"-didn't you say Li Hua's holiness and elegance? The father had a brainwave and decided to choose the words "Li" and "Bai" at the beginning and end of the wonderful sentence as the children's names, so he named his seven-year-old son "Li Bai".