Wu Guanzhi and Li Bai have been good friends for many years.
Wu Guanzhi, a talented scholar in Shu, was Li Bai's traveling friend. He often made appointments with Li Bai to visit famous mountains and rivers, and they haunted the mountains and ridges, forming a life-and-death friendship. When Wu Guanzhi was seriously ill, Li Bai stayed with him. After Wu Guide died, Li Bai temporarily buried his friend by Dongting Lake. A few years later, Li Bai went to his friend's cemetery, took out Wu Guanzhi's bones, wrapped them in a bag, took them to Hubei, and was officially buried in the east of Echeng.
Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Shang Li Yong" that "Wu Guide is still greedy for life. Do not give the direction to the deaf and blind." Here Wu Guide should refer to the son of Wu Guide's uncle's brother's son , that is, Li Bai's family friend. Wu Guide and Li Bai often traveled together. The "Guide" mentioned in "Li Yong" is Wu Guide. The interaction between them reflects Li Bai's personality of pursuing freedom and not fearing the powerful, and also reflects his relationship with the Shangqing sect.
Li Bai’s biography:
In November of the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian passed away. Li Bai is five years old. Enlightenment reading began in this year. "The History Book of Pei Chang of Shang'an Prefecture" says: "Recite Liujia at the age of five." Liujia, a primary school literacy textbook in the Tang Dynasty, Changshi, the second official of the state.
In the third year of Kaiyuan (715), Li Bai was fifteen years old. He has written many poems and poems, and has been praised and rewarded by some celebrities, and he has begun to engage in social activities. He also began to accept the influence of Taoist thought. He was good at swordsmanship and liked to be a knight. It is Nian Cen Shensheng. In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai left Shu, "went to the country with his sword, said goodbye to his relatives and traveled far away".
In the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan (735), Xuanzong went hunting again. It happened that Li Bai was also traveling to the west, so he took the opportunity to present "The Great Hunting Fu", hoping to win Xuanzong's appreciation. His "Great Hunting Fu" intends to use "the great road to support the king and show the vastness of things", and "the holy garden is wild and desolate, and the world is exhausted". It has a vast territory and a situation that is very different from that of the previous generation. It boasts that this dynasty is far away. Victory over the Han Dynasty, and preached Taoist Xuanzang at the end to fit in with Xuanzong's mood of advocating Taoism at that time.
In the autumn of the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Li Bai and Du Fu met for the third time in Donglu. In just over a year, they met twice and met three times, and their friendship continued to deepen. Together they searched for the hermit master, and also went to Qizhou to visit Li Yong, a world-famous essayist and calligrapher at that time. In the winter of this year, Li and Du broke up.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755 AD), the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Li Bai and his wife Zong fled south to seek refuge. Spring is in Dangtu. When he heard that Luoyang had fallen and the Central Plains collapsed, he returned to Xuancheng from Dangtu and took refuge in Kezhong (today's Knee County, Zhejiang Province). In the autumn, I heard that Xuanzong was on his way to Shu, so he went west along the Yangtze River and lived in seclusion at Pingfengdian in Lushan Mountain.