In the third year of Tang Ming Emperor Kaiyuan, Li Bai was fifteen years old and lived in seclusion in a big mine. At that time, he had many poems and was famous all over the world. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty edited by Ouyang Xiu said that Li Bai was a relative of Li in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai likes practicing sword and drinking more. Li Bai doesn't drink as little as Liu Zongyuan or Su Like Dongpo. Li Bai not only loves drinking, but also drinks a lot. Li Bai practiced sword not for beauty, but for self-defense. Legend has it that Li Bai killed a man in the second year of Kaiyuan, as if he were still in social organizations.
Li Taibai
At the age of twenty-four, Li Bai, relying on the wealth of his family, went out to Shu and traveled to the great rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty. He was at the ferry in Sichuan, driving a small boat, and just crossed the Three Gorges to the east, from the steep mountains and rivers to the Central Plains. People who travel far away are inevitably homesick. Li Bai wrote a farewell poem at Jingmen Ferry, which was handed down from generation to generation here.
Poetry: Sail to Jingmen Ferry, and soon you will be with people in the south. At the end of the mountain range and the beginning of the plain, the river winds through the wilderness. The moon rises like a mirror, and the sea clouds twinkle like palaces. The water brings you the feeling of home and makes your boat travel 300 miles.
Li Baixian went to Yangzhou and stayed in Yangzhou for a year. During this period, we don't know if we have had any contact with Yangzhou Thin Horse (a woman who is active in the hospital). In Yangzhou, he met his lifelong idol Meng Haoran. The two men soon became very good friends. When Meng Haoran was leaving, Li Bai wrote The Yellow Crane Tower Farewell Meng Haoran to Yangzhou.
At the age of 27, Li Bai married the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Xu. Thirty-one years old, the dilemma mentioned above is coming. Li Bai's wallet was exhausted by his travels in Jiangnan in recent years, so he went to Chang 'an. In order to make a living, he went through the back door, became an official and lived in a guest room in Chang 'an. In the guest room, he missed Mianzhou, his hometown, and wrote a poem "Thinking on a Quiet Night". Tang was overjoyed when he heard that Li Bai was a bachelor of Hanlin. Therefore, later generations called it "Li Hanlin".
Hanlin bachelor Li Bai
The turning point of Li Bai's life was the Anshi Rebellion.
The two An Lushan and Shi Siming of our time launched a fierce attack from the border to the Central Plains, and Tang Jun was losing ground. Soon, Chang 'an fell, and Tang took a batch of Wu Dachen and Yang Guifei to take refuge in Chengdu. In Maweipo, under pressure, Emperor Tang Ming granted Yang Guifei the death penalty.
Tang Jun went to war.
Tang Jun and the Rebel Anshi Rebellion Situation Map
Rebels surrounded the city.
Li Bai took the wrong side in the battle for the prince, and Hengli acceded to the throne for Tang Suzong. Tang Suzong led the troops of the Tang Dynasty to fight the Anshi Rebellion. Most of the lost land south of the Yellow River and north of the Yellow River has been recovered successively. Du Fu specially wrote a poem "The banks of the Yellow River were recovered by the imperial army". A few years later, the Anshi Rebellion was put down, Tang Jun returned home in triumph, and Li Longji, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was honored as the emperor's father. At that time, Li Bai lived in seclusion in Jinling in order to avoid the persecution of war and the dispute between princes. During this time, he went to Lushan Mountain and wrote a song "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" on Lushan Mountain. After the situation eased, Li Bai returned to Jinling and was captured. Song Ruosi tried his best to protect Li Bai, an official under him.
Li Kun, the king of Yong, has long been rebellious. After the Shi Siming Rebellion, he took advantage of the emptiness of Tang Dynasty's national strength and made a pretence of traveling eastward.