Li Bai (701-762), born in 701, Han nationality, six feet six tall, named Taibai, Qinglian Jushi, was born in Jiangyou, Sichuan, and was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. His poetic style is bold and elegant, his imagination is rich, his language flows naturally, and his music is harmonious and changeable. He is good at absorbing nutritious materials from folk songs and myths to form his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors. This is a new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan. He is also known as "Big Li and Du" together with Du Fu. He is one of the greatest poets in Chinese history. , also known as the "Poetic Immortal".
Li Bai’s ancestral home was Chengji, Longxi (now Chengji Township, Jingning County, Gansu Province). At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he migrated to Suiye City in Central Asia (near today’s Tokmak, northern Kyrgyzstan), where Li Bai was born. . When he was five years old, his family moved to Mianzhou Mingming County (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). When he was twenty years old, he left Sichuan alone and began to roam extensively, from Dongting to the Xiangjiang River in the south, to Wu and Yue in the east, and lived in Anlu (today's Anlu City, Hubei Province). He traveled around, hoping to make friends and meet celebrities, so that he could be recommended and climb to a high position to realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, nothing was achieved. He continued to travel north to Taiyuan and Chang'an, to the east to Qi and Lu, and settled in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). By this time, he had made friends with many celebrities, composed a large number of excellent poems, and his poems were famous all over the world. In the early years of Tianbao, he was recommended by the Taoist Wu Renjun. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned him to Beijing and ordered him to serve the Imperial Academy. Soon, due to the slander of the powerful, he was squeezed out of Beijing in the third or fourth year of Tianbao (744 or 745 AD). After that, he wandered around the Jiang and Huai areas, feeling extremely depressed.
In the winter of the fourteenth year of Tianbao (AD 755), Anlu Mountain rebelled. At this time, he was living in seclusion in Lushan Mountain. When Yong Wang Li Lin's army marched eastward, he invited Li Bai to come down the mountain and join the shogunate. Later, Li Lin rebelled against Su Zong and was eliminated. Li Bai was implicated and was sentenced to exile in Yelang (today's Guizhou Province). He was pardoned and released on the way, and traveled between Xunyang (today's Jiujiang, Jiangxi) and Xuancheng (today's Xuancheng, Anhui). Waiting places. In the first year of Baoying's reign (762 AD), Dai Zong died of illness in Dangtu County, Anhui.
Li Bai lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. He had the progressive ideal of "helping the common people" and "anli Yuan", and worked hard to realize this ideal throughout his life. His large number of poems not only reflected the prosperity of that era, but also exposed and criticized the dissoluteness and corruption of the ruling group, showing his positive spirit of contempt for the powerful, resisting the constraints of tradition, and pursuing freedom and ideals. In terms of art, his poems have novel imagination, strong emotions, magnificent artistic conception, and fresh and bright language. They form a bold and ultra-forward artistic style and reach the peak of positive romantic poetry art in ancient my country. There are more than 900 poems in existence, including "Collection of Li Taibai".
His poems are rich in imagination, strange in conception, powerful and magnificent in style, and he is a representative figure of romantic poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There are more than 990 poems by Li Bai in existence. There are a large number of political lyric poems, which fully express the poet's extraordinary ambition, unrestrained passion, and heroic spirit. They also represent the typical high-spirited tone of the poetry of the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai had a strong self-awareness and compared himself to the Dapeng many times, such as "The Dapeng rises with the wind in one day and soars ninety thousand miles" ("Shang Li Yong"). However, Li Bai returned frustrated after three years in Chang'an. When his passionate political enthusiasm was collided with reality, he turned into a sad and angry song of unrecognized talent, spewing out from his chest: "The road is like the blue sky, I alone cannot reach it, I am ashamed to chase it away." In the Chang'an community, red chickens and white dogs gambled on pears and chestnuts, playing songs with swords and making bitter sounds, and dragging their trains to the royal family." Li Bai also wrote joyful drinking poems to relieve the sorrow of not being able to find his talent. "Jingjinjiu": "If you are successful in life, you must have all the fun. Don't let the gold bottle stand empty against the moon. I am born with talents that will be useful. I will come back after all the gold is gone. Cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle is a joy. I will drink three hundred cups at a time." "In line with this bold and unrestrained emotional momentum, the distinctive features of Li Bai's poetry in terms of artistic techniques are: magical imagination, unprovoked changes, vertical and horizontal structure jumps, and scattered sentence lengths, forming a majestic and elegant poem. style. Throughout his life, the poet has been praising the ideal life with his innocent heart. No matter when and where, he always embraces the whole world with enthusiasm, pursues full performance, meritorious service and enjoyment, and has a keen sense of all beautiful things. Feel, grasp reality without being satisfied with reality, plunge into the rapids of life but transcend the worries of suffering, and realize your own value in a high and exciting mental state. If ideal color is the main feature of the poetic style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, then Li Bai was at the forefront of the times with his more promising ideal singing.
The themes of Li Bai's poems are diverse. Representative works include: seven-character ancient poems ("The Road to Shu is Difficult", "The Journey is Difficult", "Sleepwalking Tianmu Yin Farewell", "About to Enter the Wine", "Liang Fu Yin", etc.), five-character ancient poems (59 poems in "Ancient Style"); The Yuefu folk songs of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, such as "Changgan Xing", "Midnight Wu Song", etc., and seven-character quatrains ("Wanglu Mountain Waterfall", "Wangtianmen Mountain", "Early Departure from Baidi City", etc.) have become famous in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Chapter. Li Bai was already well-known in the Tang Dynasty. His poems were "uncollected in every volume" and he was the first person in the Chinese poetry circle.