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In my imagination, Li Bai has been wandering around the world all his life, and he seems to have been wandering all the time. However, in folklore, there is a romantic love story, which tells that Li Bai has a home in Kaifeng and tied him together all his life.
The story happened in Tianbao three years in the Tang Dynasty. Three great poets, Li Bai, Du Fu and Gao Shi, gathered in Kaifeng to drink and write poems. One day, while they were drinking on the platform, they suddenly heard the fantastic piano sound coming from the window. Three people suspected that Shi Kuang was born again, and they couldn't help feeling. Between drunkenness and drunkenness, Li Bai improvised poems and wrote the famous poem "Song of Liangyuan" on the chalk wall. After the three poets left, a beautiful young woman in white came here with a maid. She stood in front of the wall, reciting the magnificent poem over and over again, so intoxicated that she didn't even notice the monks entering the room. Seeing the white wall painted black, the monk was very angry and wanted to wipe the cloth, but the girl stopped him. After some negotiations, she bought the wall with 1,200 pieces of silver and kept the poem on it. Soon, Li Bai was deeply moved when he heard about it, so he asked Du Fu and Gao Shi to be matchmakers and married this talented woman. Master is Li Bai's fourth wife.
The legend of "a thousand dollars for a wall" may not be true, but there is such a person as a talented woman of the Zong clan. According to Guo Moruo's textual research, Li Bai "also has a home in Liangyuan, and has been here for ten years." Zong's grandfather, named Zong Chuke, was a prime minister, and was later killed by Tang Xuanzong because of his attachment. After marriage, Li Bai and the Zongs still wander around and often go home to see. It was not until the Anshi Rebellion broke out that he fled to Jiangnan with Zong's family and her younger brother Zong Ang, ending the life of "going to Beijing once and carrying ten guests to Liangyuan".
We can't know exactly how many times the poet came back here in ten years and how long he stayed at home each time, but even if he is a lonely boat that is adrift, he will definitely dock in his harbor when he is tired. Home is the direction of missing, the concern in a dream, and the moonlight sprinkled on the bed during the poet's wandering and lonely journey. With this family, Li Bai has irreplaceable spiritual comfort for the rest of his life.
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Yu Guangzhong, a poet, wrote in Looking for Li Bai: "So far, what is the mystery: your hometown/Longxi or Shandong, Qinglian township or Broken Leaf City/which hometown is better?" There has always been a lot of debate about Li Bai's life experience. Generally speaking, Li Bai's ancestral home was in Longxi, and his ancestors were exiled to the western regions at the end of Sui Dynasty. Li Bai was born in Broken Leaf City in Central Asia and moved to Qinglian Township, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province with his father at the age of five. He feels that "the iron pestle is ground into a needle" and is eager to learn. "I read hundreds of books at the age of ten" and "fifteen". He is also keen on fencing and vertical and horizontal techniques. When he was young, he traveled all over places of interest in Sichuan.
At the age of 26, Li Bai walked out of Bashan and Shushui with a sword and began a long wandering career. In Anlu, Hubei, he married the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Xu, and gave birth to his daughter Pingyang and his son Boqin. In the following eight years, he was full of confidence in being an official, seeking immortality everywhere and making friends with people from all walks of life, and traveled all over nearly half of China. Later, his family moved to Jining, Shandong Province, and he still ran around, recommending himself to officials and struggling to find opportunities to be an official. Soon, his wife Xu Shi died, and Li Bai married a woman named Liu and moved to Nanling, Anhui. But this marriage didn't last long. After breaking up, Li Bai married another Shandong woman and gave birth to a son named Li Po.
In the autumn of the first year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty accepted the recommendation of Princess Yu Zhen and Taoist Wuyun, and recruited Li Bai to Beijing. At this time, Li Bai was 42 years old and was living in a small mountain village in Nanling, Anhui. When he received the news, he was ecstatic. He quickly cooked chicken and shochu, sang and got drunk, and wrote a poem "Laughing in the sky when going out, is our generation Artemisia?" It can be described as high-spirited and full of ambition. He thought that this would definitely repay his long-cherished wish of being an emperor's teacher and drawing economic strategies. Unexpectedly, the reality ruthlessly shattered his dream, and the Hanlin sacrifice he got was just a leisure post set up by the emperor for art.
At that time, Tang Xuanzong had been in power for thirty years. He was fatuous and decadent, indulged in debauchery and neglected politics for a long time. This made Li Bai feel extremely disappointed. He can't stand the treatment of "cultivating superior people" and doesn't want to play the role of writing poems and singing after the emperor and the imperial concubine. He often drown his sorrows in wine, getting drunk and crazy. Even so, he was vilified and excluded by powerful people. "Although your majesty loves moths and eyebrows, he has no choice but to kill people in the harem." After only one year and eight months in North Korea, Li Bai walked out of Chang 'an with disappointment and indignation.
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Walking out of Chang 'an, Li Baidong wandered, feeling sad and confused all the way. The favor of being called into the palace has been like a lifetime ago, and the grand plan of saving the world has gradually faded away with the Beijing Tower. How to go in the future? Tired and frustrated, he let his wandering boots step into the streets of Luoyang. Then, Du Fu came into his field of vision.
At this time, Li Bai was 44 years old and Du Fu just turned 33. Du Fu was born in Gong County, Henan Province, an official family. His grandfather Du was a famous poet in the period of Wu Zetian, and his father was a magistrate of Fengtian County. Du Fu was influenced by orthodox Confucian culture since childhood. At the age of seven, he was able to write poems. At the age of 14 or 15, he "traveled in the calligraphy world" and made friends with the scribes to sing. At the age of 24, he went to Luoyang to participate in scientific research, but he failed. From then on, he lived in shouyangshan between Luoyang and Yanshi, and lived a roaming life of "dissolute Qi Zhao, wild hills and horses".
Perhaps there was an agreement in previous lives, and Li Bai and Du Fu finally met in Luoyang. They hit it off. After several long talks about drinking, they agreed to travel to Bianzhou together.
They may not know that just as they appreciated each other and agreed to go to Kaifeng, Gao Shi, who was also frustrated, wandered the streets of Kaifeng.
Gao Shi learned books and swords from childhood, ambitious and very conceited. Like Li Bai, he disdains to take the usual road of scientific research as an official, hoping to get the appreciation of the son of heaven through the recommendation of others and make a blockbuster. At the age of 20, he went west to Chang 'an, explored the road for the first time and failed to return. In the following ten years, he lived in Kaifeng area to plow and study, waiting for the opportunity. Later, he went to Zhao Yan in the north and tried to join the army and become an official, but he still failed. "The rabbit garden is a non-agricultural year, and fishing in the salt pond is very bitter." He was penniless when he failed twice as an official, but the desolate fields could not hide his extraordinary talents, and his bold poems had long been famous.
Li Bai is here. Du Fu is here. So, three poets joined hands on the platform, "drunk in the autumn quilt, walking hand in hand with the Japanese", indulging in extravagant songs and generously remembering the past, which opened the most exciting scene in the history of China literature in the autumn wind.
It is said that when these three outstanding literary figures met in Taiwan Province, they all wrote poems handed down from generation to generation. Gao Shi's Gu Da Liang Xing is simple and heroic, Du Fu's Farewell is gloomy and desolate, and Li Bai's Surprise in the Garden is magnificent and magnificent. It is this "Song of Liangyuan" that makes the master deeply moved and intoxicated, which leads to a story that has been circulated for thousands of years.
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It is said that the slipway was built by Shi Kuang, a musician in the Spring and Autumn Period. When Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty, the beloved Wu was named Kaifengfu. Liang Xiaowang built pavilions around the platform, planted exotic flowers and grasses everywhere, and often drank wine here as a tribute, hence the name "Liangyuan".
By the Tang Dynasty, the glory of Liangyuan had already disappeared, but Kaifeng, as a national water transport center, was increasingly prosperous. Perhaps attracted by the charming scenery of Kaifeng, three talented poets came here and had an unprecedented spiritual dialogue.
This party deeply entered Du Fu's heart. He spent his whole life in The Loved One, where he wrote poems, sighed and sang deeply. Until his later years, he wrote in his poem: "Remember the people of Korea and talk about wine making." These two people are so bold and thoughtful that I am full of color. When you are on the platform, you will look back and look at the flat land. "
Wave goodbye to blowing Taiwan, Gao Shi traveled east to Jiangsu, Du Fu traveled west to Chang 'an, and Li Bai continued to wander around. A year later, Li Bai and Du Fu met briefly in Shandong, but after breaking up, they drifted away, moved like businessmen and never met again.
Du Fu, who devoted himself to friendship, never forgot Li Bai and wrote many touching poems in memory of Li Bai. There are more than ten poems written by Du Fu for Li Bai, and almost every capital is a painstaking and sincere masterpiece. "When death is the reason for parting, people will cry, but life leaves again and again. You didn't bring me any signs of exile in the poisonous humidity of the southern river. I remember it until you came to my dream last night. " "The clouds that have been floating in the sky all day may be like a wanderer and never come back. I have been dreaming of you for three nights, as gentle, intimate and real as when I was awake. "A cold wind is blowing from the distant sky. What are you thinking, old friend? ? Goose never answers me? Rivers and lakes are flooded by rain. " ..... After thousands of years, reading these ecstatic poems is still touching. Scholars have always despised each other, especially men of similar age. People who meet by chance can form a profound friendship, but it seems that no Du Like Fu calls Li Bai's name in his dream and writes poems for the man in his dream like a lover after waking up.
Du Fu is mentioned in Li Bai's poems, and there is also a saying that "if you think of a gentleman, send him south". "When will Shimen Road open again?" Poems expressing friendship are far less touching than Du Fu's poems. This may be related to their fame at that time: Li Bai was famous all over the world, and Du Fu was not famous when he was alive. However, I prefer to believe that this is due to personality, because Li Bai is not a person who is deeply in love.
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Li Bai is wild and unrestrained, detached and open-minded. He has been wandering all his life and making friends all his life, but no one can remember him for a long time. When he was young, he met Meng Haoran, who was 1 1 older than him. "Master, I sincerely salute you, and your reputation has risen to the sky", and he expressed his rare admiration in his poems. After arriving in Chang 'an, Li Bai befriended He. Both of them were "eight immortals in wine", and Li Bai called Li "fallen immortal". There is a young man named Wei Wan who worships Li Bai very much. Followed him to Kaifeng, then to Shandong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and pursued him all the way until he caught up with Yangzhou. Li Bai was greatly moved and became a bosom friend, entrusting the manuscript to him. However, for these friends, Li Bai and Fu got drunk when they got together, and they paid little attention after breaking up.
He is as cruel to his wife as to his friends. Li Bai has been wandering for many years, but there are almost no works that miss his wife in his poems. "When I went out, my wife took clothes and asked me how many days I would return to the west. Wear a gold seal when you come, and don't see Su Qin not getting off the plane. " In those poems about wives, they are also so heartless.
"But I got the master drunk, and I don't know where it is." For Li Bai, it doesn't seem to matter where home is, just a wandering post station. There is only one thing he really likes in his life, and that is being an official.
The purpose of Li Bai's wandering around the world is not to travel around, but to look for opportunities and hope to get the appointment of the court. Even after his political failure and leaving Chang 'an, he has been eager to focus on the Longmen and then take a photo of Wei Que.
When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Li Bai was roaming in Jiangnan. Lin, the son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, set up an army in Jiangling and recruited Li Bai as assistant minister of the shogunate. The poet thought it was time to make contributions, and enthusiastically joined the army, but he was involved in the battle for imperial power. In less than three months, Wang Yong was defeated and killed, and Li Bai was exiled to Yelang. After 15 months of turbulent exile, he was able to return to Nanchang, Jiangxi to reunite with his wife. He was not content to be defeated twice in politics. At the age of 6 1, he heard that Li Guangbi had sent troops to the southeast, so he couldn't resist the surge of emotion and joined the army. Unfortunately, he fell ill halfway and died in poverty the following year, ending his legendary life.
Li Bai is not suitable for officialdom. He is impulsive, obsessed with fantasy, naive and bohemian. This temperament and character determined the decline of his career and the tragic fate. His passionate and romantic poetic soul belongs only to mountains and rivers. The tenderness and lingering of his wife can't keep him, the happiness and warmth of his family can't keep him, and the attachment and sympathy of his friends can't keep him. He forgot where his hometown was, where his home was, and he went astray all his life.
Fortunately, he also has poetry and wine. "Wine enters the intestine/seven points are moonlight/the remaining three points are shock wave/embroidered mouth is half full of Tang Dynasty."