Masterpieces: Difficult Travel in the Middle of Shu, it is hard to go, Looking at Lushan Waterfall, Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream, etc.
According to New Tang Book, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Sheng Xing (Wu Liang, Wang Zhao and Li Hao). According to this statement, Li Bai and the kings of Li Tang are actually the same clan, so he should be the same generation brother of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin. It is also said that his ancestors were Li or Li Yuanji, who moved to the western regions because of genocide; But this statement lacks evidence. According to Old Tang Book, Li Bai's father, Li Ke, was appointed as the city guard. Li Bai was born in the first year of Chang 'an after Wu Dynasty (70 1). Li Bai's ancestral home is Ji Cheng (now Qin 'an County, Gansu Province). There are different opinions about his birthplace. One is that he was born in Changlong County (7 12 was renamed as Changming County and now belongs to Qinglian Township, jiangyou city, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province). Another way of saying it is that his father was born in the Broken Leaf City (now tokmak, Kyrgyzstan) in the Western Region from the Central Plains, and moved back to Chimelong County, Mianzhou, South Province (now jiangyou city, Sichuan Province) when he was 4 years old. His father Li Ke's life story is unknown. Li Bai was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and his calligraphy was engraved.
He spent most of his life roaming, and traveled more than half of China. At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan alone and began to wander widely, reaching Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and Yuezhou in the east, living in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province). He traveled around, hoping to make friends and visit celebrities, so as to be introduced, climb to the top in one fell swoop and realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, I have accomplished nothing. Continue to go north to Taiyuan and Chang 'an (now Shaanxi An), east to Qi and Lu, and live in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). At this time, he has made many celebrities and created many excellent poems. Li Bai doesn't want to take the exam to be an official. He hoped to rely on his own talent and embark on his career through the recommendation of others, but no one appreciated him all the time. He once wrote a book to introduce himself with Han Jingzhou, a famous contemporary figure, but he didn't get a reply. Until the first year of Tianbao (742), due to the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun, Li Bai was called to visit the Hanlin in Chang 'an, and his articles became famous all over the world. Li Baichu was appreciated by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty for his talent, but later he was unable to meet the dignitaries. After only three years in Beijing, he gave up his official position and continued his wandering life. In the second year of An Shi Rebellion (756), he was angry and uneasy, and once joined Li Lin, the shogunate of Wang Yong. Unfortunately, Wang Yong and Su Zong competed for the throne. After the defeat, Li Bai was dragged into exile in Yelang (now Guizhou), and was pardoned on the way, writing "Send Baidicheng early". In his later years, he drifted to the southeast, went to Dangtu county magistrate Li's uncle and nephew, and died soon.
Li Bai did not show fame in his life, but he had high expectations. He despised the rich and powerful in clothes, unscrupulously mocked the hierarchical order centered on political power, criticized the phenomenon of political corruption, and carried forward the heroism in the prosperous Tang culture with a bold gesture of resistance. Li Bai's anti-power thought is becoming more and more conscious and mature with the enrichment of his life practice. In the early days, it was mainly manifested in the equal requirements of "self-improvement, not being human" and "making friends with princes", as he said in his poem: "I was drunk in Chang 'an, and five kings and seven people shared a glass of wine. In the face of heroic spirit, the romantic spirit will fall behind others! " ("Liu Yelang gave the judge Xin") "Encourage the nine masters to make waves and be young and ignorant." ("Ode to the Jade Pot") He sometimes makes grandiose remarks that show contempt for powerful people, such as "Gold and white jade buy songs and laugh, and get drunk and tired, and despise princes" ("Remembering the past" sent the county yuan to join the army). But his main performance is inner pride. With the understanding of the actual situation of high-level power groups, he further exposed the opposition between Buyi and dignitaries: "Zhu Yu buys songs and laughs, wasting talents." ("Antique" back to the fifteenth) "Wu Tong nest finch, orange. "Li Bai photos
(Article 39 of Antique) And the ugly behavior of those who stole power by flattering the emperor is extremely ridiculous, such as: "The cart flies in the dust, and the pavilion is dark in the afternoon. China is more expensive than gold, and Lianyun has a room. He Huihe was dubbed cockfighting. When the snorts are dry, pedestrians are afraid. There is no deaf ear in the world, who knows Yao and wisdom! " In "Dream on Mount Tianmu", he made the loudest voice: "Oh, how can I bow and scrape to those high-ranking officials whose sincere faces will never be seen!" The significance of this artistic generalization in Li Bai's poems is as important as Du Fu's famous sentence "The wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and the bones on the road freeze to death" ("Ode to 500 words from Beijing to Fengxian"). In the deteriorating political situation at the end of Tianbao, Li Bai linked anti-dignitary with extensive social criticism. For example, Answering the King on Twelve Cold Nights not only fought bravely for the fallen sages, but also expressed disappointment and contempt for the imperial court: If there is no Beihai in Li See, where can there be heroic spirit? If you don't look at Pei Shangshu, there are three feet of wormwood thorns in the earth grave. Teenagers have long wanted to go to the Five Lakes. Seeing this, I will spare Zhong Ding. Li Bai even sharply reprimanded Xuanzong himself in the way of satirizing modern people in his poems, such as "Feeling the Book, Being a Gentleman", "Ancient Style" and "Ascending to the Far Sea". In a word, it can be said that he developed the anti-power theme in Tang poetry to the point of dripping and hearty. Ren Hua said that Li Bai "lived for decades and never lost his color for a day" ("Miscellaneous Words Send Li Bai"). This consciousness of never giving in to powerful people and bravely fighting for self-dignity is an important content of attaching importance to personal value since Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it is also a tradition of attaching importance to strength and character. It is under the new historical conditions that Li Bai inherited and carried forward this excellent tradition and became a star in poetry. Li Bai's poems and songs are full of passion for life. His poems are often full of childlike interest in the wild, such as: "Two people drink bloom, one after another. I am so drunk that I want to sleep, and I plan to hold the Ming Dynasty piano. " ("On the Mountain and Lovers") "Long sleeves, light desire, drunken dancing in Hanzhong. Put a robe on me and I'll get drunk and sleep in my lap. " Life is like strong liquor, which intoxicates the poet. Of course, this does not mean that there is no sorrow and pain in life, but the poet's optimism is enough for him to transcend and overcome his sense of hardship. The so-called "where is there nothing to worry about in life?" Drinking and climbing the stairs (Song of Liangyuan) and "Drunk Jia Qianchi, don't look at the monument to tears" (Xiangyang Qu IV) are exactly the portrayal of his broad-minded mentality. He is never satisfied with loneliness and loneliness, such as drinking the bright moon alone, which shows that only a poet full of vitality can make such fantastic ideas. He has a "short song line", and the idea is: "If you want to win the Six Dragons, go back to the car and hang the Fusang. With the help of the Big Dipper, every dragon advised them to drink a glass of wine, so they all fell asleep and couldn't stay awake. Wealth is not what you want, you are in your twilight years. " Here, there is no old man's sigh, but the naive imagination of "persuading wine" expresses infinite attachment to life. These poems appeal to the beautiful humanity submerged by vulgar life with their pure taste, thus gaining permanent charm. Li Bai has a strong feeling for nature, and he is good at integrating his personality into natural scenery, which makes his landscapes and valleys have idealized colors. He said in the poem "Sunrise": "I will include a big piece, and I will be noble and have the same topic. "He also said:" Yangchun told me to smoke, and I took articles on big holidays. " (Preface to the Spring Banquet in Peach Blossom Spring by My Brother) Li Bai is heroic and pursues a pure and noble state of mind. These different personality aspects also form two types of his artistic conception of mountains and rivers: one is to highlight the beauty of strength and movement in the majestic mountains and rivers, and express his lofty aspirations in the magnificent artistic conception; The other is interested in pursuing the beauty of Ming Che and expressing innocent feelings in a beautiful artistic conception. For example, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in his works roared and roared: "How can the water of the Yellow River move out of the heavens and enter the ocean, and never return" ("Into the wine"); "The Yellow River touches the mountains in Wan Li, and the vortex hub turns to Qin Mine ... Genie growls and breaks two mountains, and Hongbo jet shoots the East China Sea" ("Xiyue Yuntai Song sends Dan Qiu Zi"); "I climbed to the top. I look at the whole world, and the vast rivers can't go. "Huang Yun is popular for a hundred miles, and the snow peaks are around nine streams" (the song of Lushan suggestion and Lu Xuzhou); "Poseidon has been to the evil wind, and the waves hit the stone wall of Tianmen. What happened to Zhejiang in August? Snow in Taosi Mountain (Hengjiang Ci). The peaks in his works are towering and steep: "The highest cliff is only one foot below the sky, and the withered pine trees hang their heads from the surface of the cliff" (Shu Dao Nan); "Straight into the sky, its peak into the sky, the top of the five holy peaks, casting a shadow through China; The rooftop is 18,000 feet, right here, and it begins to turn to the southeast (Dream of Tianmu Mountain). He endowed mountains and rivers with lofty aesthetic feeling with heroism in his chest. His praise for the great power of nature is also a tribute to the far-sighted and unremitting pursuit of life ideals. Extraordinary natural image and proud heroic character are integrated. At the same time, Li Bai also wrote many beautiful landscape poems. For example, "people travel around the moon and ships travel in the air" ("Send Weiwan, a man from Wuwangshan, back to the palace"); "When a man rides on the sea and the moon, the sail falls into the sky in the lake" ("Looking for Yang to send his brother to visit Sima Zuo in Poyang"); "The moon turns with the green hills, and the green hills follow the flowing water. It seems that I am above the Milky Way, but I feel that the clouds are secluded ("On the Moonlight, I will send a trip outside the Cuiyuan"); "Jinling night is quiet and cool, watching the five mountains in the west wing alone. The white clouds reflect the water and shake the empty city, and the white dew drops the beads and the autumn moon ("The Moon on the West Tower of Jinling City"). These poems are famous for their clarity and purity. Li Bai's landscape poems are not so much a realistic description of natural features as a reformed and idealized picture according to the poet's personality. He just wants to grasp the overall momentum or atmosphere, splash ink on the basis of sudden excitement, while ignoring the specific details, and even the visual transfer order of the scenery is often not concerned. Li Bai's landscape poems are pervasive and lyrical. He is good at blending mountains and rivers with specific emotions, and there is a subtle relationship between the situation of "scenery" and the characteristics of "emotion" For example, seeing a friend off: to the north of the Great Wall is a blue mountain range, and to the east is a white waterline. Here we say goodbye to each other, and you, like losing your father, are floating in the wind and traveling far away. Floating clouds are like wanderers, like wandering, and the sunset slowly goes down the mountain, which seems to be nostalgic. With a wave of his hand, he will be separated from now on, and his friend on horseback will carry him on a long journey, blowing a long wind, as if reluctant to leave. The "floating clouds" and "sunset" in the poem are not only the foreground of the eyes, but also the concrete images with specific emotional content in ancient poetry, which means that once a wanderer leaves, he will be like a floating cloud, so he will say goodbye to the sunset without leaving a scar. Another example is "the clouds return to the blue sea and the evening, and the geese have no blue sky." The first two sentences not only point out the season and time, but also use the images of "cloud" and "goose" to refer to departure and travel. In addition, for example, "Sometimes white clouds rise and the sky unfolds." However, in my heart, I am grateful for every happiness ("Looking at Nanshan to send a song to a hermit"), "Oh, go and ask this river flowing eastward, whether it can go further than the love of friends!" ("Parting Nanjing Restaurant"), "Xi Hui drives by the water, blue waves are rippling" ("Swimming in Nanyang Qingling Spring") and so on. Li Bai's thoughts and sentiments of freedom and liberation and his personality with the tendency of popularization also enabled him to explore all kinds of human beauty in social life more deeply. There is a yearning for a quiet life here, such as the third part of Midnight Wu Ge: a new moon hangs over the capital, and ten thousand laundry hammers are beating. The autumn wind blew Yi Dao's voice, and every household remembered the people guarding the border. When will the border war be settled and when will my husband end his expedition? There are praises for working life, such as "Song of Autumn Pu" XIV: "Fire shines on the heavens and the earth, and red stars are everywhere. On a moonlit night, the song moves the cold Sichuan. "All these poems, without exception, use the ideal nimbus to make the theme of daily life glow with poetic elegance. Li Bai is indeed an outstanding poet in China. The great wanderer enriched the scenery of the Tang Dynasty with his feet and poetic pen. He swept away sturm und drang, and then, the smoke in Dongting, the wind and cloud in Chibi, the apes in Shudao and the mighty river suddenly flew. In poetry, the poet is smart and heroic, like a cloud in the sky; He wandered between the eight poles, galloping freely, like a fine horse galloping on the Yuan Ye. In the poem, the poet sweeps away the worldly dust and completely restores his immortal posture: above, he looks for the green void, below, the yellow spring. His romance, madness, love and hate, loneliness and pain, dreams and awakening, heroism and vagrancy all reached the extreme. His poetry creation has a strong subjective color, which is mainly manifested in his emphasis on expressing heroism and passionate feelings, and rarely describing objective things and specific time in detail. Free and easy temperament, independent personality, and strong emotions that are easy to touch and erupt form the distinctive features of Li Bai's lyric style. He often erupts, and once his feelings are aroused, he rushes out without restraint, just like a hurricane in the sky and an overflowing volcano. His imagination is very strange, often has unusual connections, and changes with the flow of emotions.
Madam
Li Bai had four wives in his life. 1 Xu, married wife, Xu's granddaughter 2 Liu, living together after breaking up 3 Dong Lu's family 4. Zong, the last wife, the first wife of the granddaughter of Zong Chuke, was a handful when Li Bai passed his friend Meng Haoran in Xiangyang, Hubei Province in 727 AD.
Married the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Xu. In fact, she is not married yet, and she wants to be a son-in-law. Because Li Bai has been living in his father-in-law's house for ten years after his marriage, the taste of relying on others makes him very depressed, and he has no mind to ponder other things at all. This is Li Bai's first marriage. Maybe he still treats it with a very responsible attitude, and judging from the fact that he has a man, a woman and two sons after marriage, the marriage life of both parties is still very harmonious. His son's name: Boqin, (Abortion slave); Female name: Pingyang. In 738 AD, Xu passed away. The second wife, in 739 AD, that is, after the first marriage 12 years, that is, one year after her death, Li Bai married a woman named Liu. Soon, because Liu looked down on Li Bai, Li Bai left angrily. The third wife, in 745 AD, Li Bai was appointed as a city in Shandong and married a local woman. At this time, Li Baigang came out of the capital Chang 'an, carrying a big bag of gold and silver treasures and Du Fu and Gao Shi all the way through Shangqiu, Henan, and stayed here for a long time. After breaking up with the two of them, Li Bai went to Taishan to find a Taoist priest himself, passed by Rencheng and met this woman, and they hit it off. This wife of Li Bai gave birth to a son, and Li Bai bought a lot of land and real estate in Yanzhou, Shandong. After that, he gave all these land and real estate to his wife during his wandering life. It can be seen that Li Bai trusts his wife very much Unfortunately, the wife died after they had been married for five years. The fourth wife, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Zong Chuke, was quite romantic when Li Bai met Wu Zetian in Kaifeng, Henan Province in 744 AD. It is said that Li Bai was drunk in Liangyuan, and his poems were excellent, so he wrote the famous poem "Poetry of Liangyuan" on the wall. After writing, he may find a corner to pee, and then pick up his gown and leave. Shortly after leaving, the Zong couple came here with their servants. When they saw this poem, they couldn't let it go for a long time. It happened that the people in Liangyuan saw it and were about to clean it. Zong asked not to clean it, and spent a lot of money to buy this wall. So he left the story of "a thousand dollars for a wall". In many historical records, the master is described as a lady with both talent and beauty, and the beauty of the master is also a loyal Taoist believer. It can be said that Li Bai is like-minded. When Li Bai was imprisoned for Li Lin's case and sent to Yelang, the Zongs also rescued him many times, and the two never met again. Li Bai liked his last wife's imperial clan and once wrote a poem "Generations" to express his thoughts on his wife.
In his youth, Li Bai studied in a wide range. In addition to Confucian classics and ancient literary and historical masterpieces, he also browsed hundreds of books and became a "good swordsman" (Korean Jingzhou Book). He believed in Taoism, which was popular at that time, and liked to live in seclusion in the mountains and seek immortality to learn Taoism. At the same time, he has the political ambition to make contributions, claiming to "learn from Yan Guan's words, seek the skills of the emperor and strive for the wisdom of the emperor". He is willing to help him, enlarge the atlas area and make Hai Xian into Jing Yi "("Dai Shoushan answers Meng Shaofu's book "). On the one hand, it is necessary to be a hermit immortal beyond the secular world, on the other hand, it is necessary to be an assistant to the monarch, which has formed the contradiction between being born and entering the WTO. However, actively joining the WTO and worrying about the country and the people are the mainstream of his life thoughts and the ideological basis for the progress of his works. Poems written by Li Bai in Shu during his youth are rarely preserved, but articles such as Wandering Taoist and Yuege on Mount Emei show outstanding talents.
Farewell to relatives and travel far.
In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (A.D. 725), Li Bai went to Shu, "leaving his sword to serve the country and his relatives to travel far away". He sailed out of the gorge and drifted along the river, and the mountains in his hometown gradually disappeared beyond recognition. Only the water from the Three Gorges still followed him, pushing his boat and sending him to a strange and distant city. Taibai, make a clear tone map.
To Li Bai's surprise, there will be an extraordinary meeting in Jiangling. He actually met Sima Chengzhen, a Taoist who was respected by three emperors. Tiantai Taoist Sima Chengzhen not only learned a whole set of Taoist spells, but also wrote a good seal script, and his poems were as elegant as immortals. Xuanzong respected him very much. Once, he called him to the Inner Temple to learn Buddhist scriptures, built a balcony for him to view, and sent his sister Princess Yu Zhen to study Taoism with him. Li Bai was naturally very happy to see the favored Taoist priest, and sent his own poems for his review. Li Bai's elegant appearance and extraordinary qualifications made Sima Chengzhen appreciate it at first sight, but when he read his poems, he was even more amazed and praised him for "having the wind of a saint, which can make him wander at will." Because he saw that Li Bai was not only outstanding in appearance, but also brilliant in writing, which did not attract the attention of contemporary Rong Lu officials. This is a talent he has never met in the opposition for decades, so he is praised with the highest praise from Taoism. In other words, he has a "immortal root", that is, he was born immortal, which is similar to what He Zhang later praised him as "an immortal", and everyone regarded him as an extraordinary person. This is the overall impression of Li Bai's demeanor and poetic style. Li Bai rejoiced at Sima Cheng's high praise. He is determined to pursue such an eternal and immortal world as "wandering octupole". Excited, he wrote a great poem "Dapeng meets a bird", taking Dapeng as a metaphor and boasting about its great speed. This is Li Bai's earliest world famous work. He set off from Jiangling and started his flight thousands of miles away. Li Bai went south from Jiangling, passed Yueyang, and then went south to reach one of the destinations of this trip. However, while boating in Dongting Lake, an unfortunate thing happened. Li Bai's traveling companion Wu Guide, from Sichuan, died of sudden illness (or was beaten to death). Li Bai is very sad. He fell down beside his friend and shouted, "Blood is behind the tears". Because he cried so much, passers-by cried for it. It's really unbearable to encounter such misfortune on the trip.
Why? Li Bai had to bury Wu Zhidao by Dongting Lake for a while, and continued to swim eastward by himself, determined to take his friend's bones with him after his trip to the southeast. Li Bai came to Lushan Mountain and wrote the famous "Looking at Lushan Waterfall". Li Bai went to Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. This place is magnificent, and a tiger sits on a dragon plate, in the palace of the Six Dynasties. This not only aroused many feelings of Li Bai, but also aroused his pride in that era. He believes that the old capital has been in a state of decline, and there is nothing to see. It is not as good as the emperor's rule, and the world presents a peaceful scene. Although the domineering spirit of Jinling has disappeared, the children of Jinling have received Li Bai with deep affection. When Li Bai bid farewell to Jinling, Wu Ji suppressed the wine, and Jinling's sons and daughters sent them to each other diligently, frequently raising glasses to persuade them to drink. The feeling of farewell flows through people's hearts like a flowing river, which is unforgettable. After bidding farewell to Jinling, Li Bai is going to Yuezhou. However, I fell ill while passing through Huainan (Yangzhou, the seat of the government). Being in a foreign country, he has a lot of thoughts. He lamented that he had little hope of making achievements and missed his hometown deeply. The only thing that can bring him some comfort is a letter from a distant friend. After recovering from illness in Huainan, Li Bai went to Yuezhou (Shaoxing), an international prosperous city, where the mountains and rivers are the best in the world, which made Li Bai linger, especially Huiji Mountain, Jinghu Lake, Tianmu Mountain, Lanting and Dongshan. Li Bai and He can be said to have forgotten their friendship and are bent on making contributions to Xie An. They even admired Wang Xizhi's romantic life in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and asked him to go to Yue Zhong to seek immortality. Li Bai returned to Jingmen from the west. He stayed in Jingmen for three months. Although he is homesick, he has made no achievements in his career and finds it difficult to return to his hometown. Finally, he decided to roam again. First came to Dongting Lake and buried Wu Guide's bones in Jiangxia (now Wuchang, Hubei). He met the monk Xing Rong in Jiangxia, and learned about Meng Haoran from him, so he went to Xiangyang to visit Meng Haoran and wrote the famous five-rhythm poem A Word to Meng Haoran. Soon, Li Bai arrived in Anlu and settled down in the Taoist temple of the little beast. But seclusion here is not a long-term solution, and he still wants to find opportunities for career advancement. When Li Bai lived in seclusion in Shoushan, he made friends with officials by lobbying to improve his reputation. Li Bai's literary talent was appreciated by Xu, the prime minister of Wuhou, and he was recruited as his granddaughter's husband. Li Bai and his wife, Xu, live a happy married life under Taohua Rock in Baizhao Mountain, not far from the Xu family. However, the beauty of husband and wife's life did not make Li Bai's ambition to go out and make a successful career decline. Based on Anzhou's wife's family, I traveled several times and got to know some officials and nobles. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (AD 734), I got to know the Han Dynasty Sect, the long history of Jingzhou and the secretariat of Xiangzhou.
Just entered Chang 'an.
Feudal emperors often hunted in winter. After Emperor Xuanzong ascended the throne, he went hunting many times, and every time he took foreign envoys to show off his strength to deter neighboring countries. In the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (AD 735), Xuanzong hunted again, and it happened that Li Bai was also traveling westward, hoping to win Xuanzong's appreciation because of his "Da Hunting Fu". His "Great Levy" hopes to "show things widely", but "Sheng Chao gardens are remote and desolate, and the situation is very different from that of the previous generation", boasting that this dynasty is far superior to the Han Dynasty, and promoting the mysterious burial of Taoism at the end, in line with Xuanzong's heart of advocating Taoism at that time.
Love. The purpose of Li Baixi's visit is to present a gift. In addition, he also took this opportunity to visit Chang 'an and appreciate the scenery of this "pilgrimage to all countries". He lives at the foot of Mount Zhongnan. "He often climbs to Zhongnanshan to overlook it. When he climbed the North Peak of Zhong Nanshan, he showed him the elegance of a great country. He deeply feels that living in such a country is extraordinary, so he is quite proud. But the thought of the decadent factors in this prosperous empire once again hit his lofty mood. After Li Bai entered Chang 'an, he met Zhang Weiwei Qing and gave a poem to Princess Yu Zhen through him. The last two sentences say, "When there are few people, the Queen Mother wants to meet", which is to wish her enlightenment. Li Bai also said in his poem "Seeing Qing off" that his situation was very difficult and he hoped to introduce him to the imperial court. So he approached the upper class of the ruling class step by step. Li Bai also met He in Chang 'an this time. Li Bai once went to the Purple Pole Palace, only to meet He there. He has read He Lao's poems. When I met him this time, he naturally stepped forward to meet him and presented a book of poetry in his sleeve. He liked Shu Daonan and Wu Qiqu very much, so he took the scarab off his belt and asked someone to take Li Bai out for a drink. He was shocked by Li Bai's magnificent poems and elegant demeanor, and even said, "Did you come down to earth with a white Venus? "A year later, Li Bai was still a guest in Chang 'an and had no chance to take office. His mood is a little depressed. A good friend sincerely invited him to live in a secluded place under the sunshine of green hills, but Li Bai had no intention of going. This time I went to Chang 'an, with the ideal of making contributions, but I couldn't find it anywhere, which made Li Bai feel disappointed and a little resentful. I went to visit the prince at his door, and I was extremely dissatisfied. I just left Chang 'an with a sigh "It's hard to go, come back".
repay
Li Bai, 42, was recommended to Chang 'an by Princess Yu Zhen, the sister of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (said to be introduced by Taoist Wu Yun). Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty appreciated Li Bai's talent and treated him with great courtesy. Li's Preface to the Collection of Caotang said, "Retire to greet you, as you see (one of the" Four Masters of Shangshan "in the Qin and Han Dynasties)". "Give the rice to the Qibao bed and let the royal hand scoop the rice." . But Tang Xuanzong only asked him to worship the Hanlin and be his own literary attendant. Three years later, he was "repaid" by Tang Xuanzong. Li Bai pictures
Living in Chang 'an for three years has made Li Bai more aware of all kinds of corruption and darkness in North Korea. Being "paid back" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was a watershed in Li Bai's political career. In the first year of Tianbao (AD 742), Xuanzong read Li Bai's poems and admired them, so he called Li Bai into the palace. On the day when Li Bai entered the palace to appear before the court, Xuanzong came down to meet him and said, "Give the rice in front of the Qibao bed and scoop it yourself." Xuanzong asked some contemporary affairs, and Li Bai gave a thoughtful answer based on his half-life study and long-term observation of society. Xuanzong was greatly appreciated and immediately made Li Bai worship the Hanlin. His job is to draft the announcement and accompany the emperor. Every time Xuanzong gave a banquet or outing, he ordered Li Bai's attendants to use his agile poetic talent to write poems on the spot. Although it is not a record of merit, it also spreads its words to future generations and arrogantly boasts to future generations. Li Bai was so prized by Xuanzong that his colleagues envied him, but some people were jealous of him. When Li Bai was in Chang 'an, he not only worshipped Hanlin and accompanied Wang, but also often walked in Chang 'an. He found that there was a deep crisis in the prosperity of the country, that is, overbearing eunuchs and arrogant consorts closest to the emperor. They hung over Chang 'an and China like dark clouds, giving Li Bai a strong sense of oppression. At the same time, Li Bai's debauchery was slandered by Zhang Tan, a scholar of Hanlin, and there were some bad feelings between them. Li Bai was deeply moved by the corruption of state affairs and the slander of his colleagues. He wrote a song "Hanlin research, talk and gift to scholars" to express his intention of returning to the mountains. Unexpectedly, at this time, Li Bai was given back the gold, which seemed very unexpected. This time, it seems that Li Bai said something inappropriate.
Travel again
In the summer of the third year of Tianbao (AD 744), Li Bai arrived in Luoyang, the eastern capital. Here, he met Du Fu. The two greatest poets in the history of China literature met. At this time, Li Bai was famous all over the country, while Du Fu was in his prime, but he stayed in Los Angeles. The statue of Li Xianxian
Li Bai is eleven years older than Du Fu, but he is not arrogant in front of Du Fu with his talent. Du Fu, an "old friend", did not bow to Li Bai's praise. The two men established a profound friendship on an equal footing. When they were in Luoyang, they made an appointment to meet again in Liang and Song Dynasties (now in Shangqiu, Kaifeng) to seek immortality. In the autumn of the same year, they arrived in Liang and Song Dynasties as promised. Here, two people express their feelings through the past and discuss the present. They also met the poet Gao Shi here, who has not yet taken office. However, each of them has the same ambition and ideal. The three of them had a good time swimming, commenting on literary criticism and poetry, and talking about the general trend of the world. They were all worried about the hidden dangers of the country. At this time, Du Li was in the prime of life, and this exchange of ideas in their creation had a positive impact on them in the future. In the autumn and winter of this year, Du Li broke up again, went to a Taoist teacher, created a true scripture (the secret text of Taoism), and taught a Taoist book. Li Bai arrived (now Jinan, Shandong Province) and was taught by Taoist Gao of the Qing Dynasty in the palace. Since then, he has officially performed Taoist rituals and become a Taoist priest. Later, Li Bai went to Anling County, Dezhou, and met Gailiao, who was good at writing symbols and seals in this area, and made a true atlas for him. Li Bai got a satisfactory result in this immortal visit. In the autumn of the fourth year of Tianbao (AD 745), Li Bai and Du Fu met for the third time at the east foot. In just over a year, the two met twice and three times, and their friendship deepened. Together, they visited the hermit master and Li Yong, a world-famous essayist and calligrapher at that time. Just this winter, the two broke up and Li Bai was ready to revisit Jiangdong. Li Bai left Donglu, took a boat from Rencheng and went to Yangzhou along the canal. I didn't stay much because I was in a hurry to meet Yuan Danqiu in Huiji (Shaoxing). After arriving in Huiji, Li Bai first went to mourn the death of He. Soon, Kong also came to Huiji, so Li Bai, Yuan Danqiu and Kong visited Yudong, Lanting and other places of interest, went boating in Jinghu Lake and wandered among rivers, and described the beautiful mountains and rivers and historical details in this area extemporaneously. In Jinling, Li Bai met Cui Chengfu. Both of them are politically frustrated, and their feelings are more congenial. Every time I play, I enjoy swimming, morning and evening. They went boating on the Qinhuai River and sang all night, which attracted people on both sides of the strait to marvel and applaud them. Because of their congenial personalities and similar experiences, they have more tacit understanding and deeper friendship than ordinary friends, so Li Bai tied Cui Chengfu's poems to his clothes and memorized them when he remembered them.