Li Bai’s life experience is a mystery. The location of his hometown is still a cross-border battle; the name of his father is also not clear, it is only said that he was named after "Bu Qi Yi, so he was named a guest." This cover-up has triggered various speculations. "New Book of Tang" says that Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Li Hao, the ancestor of Xiliang, and belongs to the Li Tang clan. Because his ancestor was convicted and exiled, he never dared to reveal his family tree. Perhaps because of this, Li's father has been in business all his life and has never been involved in politics.
The 24-year-old Li Bai believed that "a real man must have ambitions in all directions, so he will go to his country with a sword and leave his relatives to travel far away." During the journey, he revealed his ambitions: "Shen Guan and Yan Zhi Tan, seek the emperor's art. With his wisdom, I am willing to assist Bi, so that the Huan District will be settled and Hai County will be unified." ("Dai Shoushan's Reply to Meng" "Shaofu Yiwen") - Like Guan Zhong and Yan Ying in the Spring and Autumn Period, we should serve as the emperor's assistant ministers, so that the government can be harmonious and people can be harmonious, and the seas, rivers and rivers can be clear.
The literati of that era all wanted to use their pens as swords to kill in the examination room and gain a place in the temple. However, after the mid-Tang Dynasty, qualification examinations were required to take the Jinshi examination, one of which was: children of merchants were not allowed to take the scientific examination. If Li Bai was really a descendant of Li Tang who was exiled abroad for political reasons, there would be no possibility of taking the exam. Moreover, in the eyes of the unruly Li Bai, he was a Dapeng who "rised with the wind in one day" and a genius who "wrote Ling Xiangru". He was asked to squeeze in with a bunch of mediocre people on a single-plank bridge, and he had no sense of existence in another place. "Grass-level positions" are simply a joke.
Zhang Dachun, the writer of "Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty" said: "He did the most thorough and comprehensive job of giving poems as gifts. He sent poems to many people, mostly middle- and lower-level bureaucrats. It is difficult for you to verify through historical materials who the poems he sent were sent to." If it is said that Li Bai "bribed", he only sent poems and never sent them to his knees. If you look at those dry poems, they all follow the same routine: first praise the other person, then compliment yourself, state your intentions, and finally add a disclaimer: "I don't leave you here, I have my own place to leave you." Very insincere.