Poetry of Chaofa Baidi City

Early Departure from Baidi City / Baidi Goes to Jiangling

Author: Li Bai

The White Emperor's farewell speech is among the colorful clouds, and the journey of thousands of miles to Jiangling is returned in one day.

The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.

"Early Departure from Baidi City" is a poem written by the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty when he was pardoned and returned from exile in the second year of Qianyuan (759). It is the most widely circulated famous poem among Li Bai's poems. one. This poem is intended to describe the rapid flow of the Yangtze River from Baidi to Jiangling, and the boat's speed is as fast as flying. The first sentence describes the height of Baidi City; the second sentence describes the distance to Jiangling and the speed of the boat; the third sentence uses the shadow of the mountain to highlight the speed of the boat; the fourth sentence writes that the boat is as light as nothing, indicating that the water is flowing like water. The whole poem combines the poet's happy mood after being pardoned with the magnificence of the mountains and rivers, and the smoothness and briskness of boating along the current. It uses exaggeration and fantasy to write it in a fluent and elegant way, shocking the world, without artificiality, and is arbitrary and natural.

Yang Shen, a man of the Ming Dynasty, praised: "The ghosts and gods wept in the storm!"