However, the poet's life and living conditions are not satisfactory. The scenery is short-lived, and the pain is always in his heart. He is always trapped and struggling in the contradiction between seclusion and being an official. Think and persist or change the way you feed the bad guys? Go with the flow or walk with the sun and the moon? The poet lingers at the crossroads between spirit and reality. These cuts are becoming more and more complicated, which makes the poet present the other side to the present and future generations.
Me: I despise powerful people, but I am keen on fame and fortune.
As soon as the poet Li Baigang entered the social gate, he became a civil servant and a "small official". When there are "small officials" in literary works, everyone will think that they are really small, just a small cadre, maybe not even a "departmental level"! However, if you see a group of civil servants applying for the exam today, you will feel: how many people are fighting for the iron rice bowl! Being able to enter the ranks of civil servants should have little to do with Li Bai's wealth. After all, Li Bai has superhuman talent. At that time, people who knew some words were hard to find. Not to mention brilliant literary talent!
After several years as a civil servant, the young Li Bai broke his iron rice bowl and quit his job. After that, he left Sichuan without a sword and began his wandering journey. During the trip, Li Bai enjoyed the magnificent mountains and rivers while writing poems. In many poems, he expressed his contempt for power and wealth. His lyrics all have the same or similar meanings, such as "fame and fortune, the Hanjiang River will flow northwest" and "Although the Silk City is beautiful, I would rather go home early".
However, the poet is actually looking for a bigger political outlet. In Dai Shoushan's book The Migration of Meng Shaofu, Li Bai expressed his political ambition: to dare to speak out, to seek the skills of the emperor, to make great efforts to make Huan cover a vast area and the sea county clear. Generally speaking, I have political talents like Guan Zhong and Yan Ying, and I am willing to do my best to help the emperor govern the world and make the country prosperous and stable! In order to realize his political ideal, Li Bai went to Dai Tian to look for Zhao Kun in his early years. He wants to join this famous hermit who is good at making economic policies and learn from him the way of Wang Ba and the art of emperors. I hope that one day I can learn something useful, get the appreciation of the emperor, govern the country and make great achievements.
There is no shame in wanting to be an official, and it is not a crime to want to be a big official; When you are a big official, you have benefited the society and the people, and you should always be respected!
Being an official, being an ordinary citizen or being a romantic poet should have the quality of matching words with deeds. Excessive reverse packaging will make people feel that this person is hypocritical and noble!
Two: put away your pride and raise your eyebrows.
In Li Bai's poems, we can clearly feel his pride, that is, "the pride of a lifetime, the pain of a lifetime." How lovely his kindness and generosity are. "Cows can blow, but their necks can't stick all the time. In order to improve their prestige, poets squeeze into the upper class, become famous, and even flatter senior officials. In order to get the appreciation and recommendation of Han Chaozong, Li Bai, who was old at that time, enthusiastically flattered Han Jin. " You don't need to seal Wan Huhou, but I hope you know Han Jingfu. "You really got the title of Wan Huhou. Will you pull Han Chaozong? I didn't realize my wish to be recommended, but my integrity was underestimated by myself!
Poetry: A poet with mixed feelings became the son-in-law of a powerful family. They sang: "Oh, how can I solemnly bow to people with high status and big office?" They will never have an honest face. "Li Bai has been married four times in his life, two of which were elected as prime ministers by the Zhumen family. In Lu Xun's words, this is the act of being a son-in-law to buy a house. However, although the poet became a son-in-law and wanted to solve the problem of eating, he was not assigned to any house.
This was an act of contempt at that time. Social discrimination against the son-in-law adopted by his father has a long history in China. In fact, this is mainly discrimination against poverty! During the Qin and Han dynasties, if there was a military need at the border, the husband was the first to be rushed to the front to shell. Even in today's civilized society, the title of "traitor stock" will also cause people's inferiority complex!
Li Bai entered the home of Xu, the former deputy prime minister of Datang, and became Xu's granddaughter and son-in-law for the first time. Li Bai lived alone for ten years.
The second time, he went to the home of Zong Chuke, the former prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and became his granddaughter and son-in-law. The reason why Zongke became a historical record is not because of his outstanding talent, nor because of his outstanding appearance, but because his aunt is too strong, and it is Wu Zetian who menstruates in Zongke. The former prime minister has a high official position, but his character is extremely low, and his negative evaluation exceeds five stars. Later, this ambitious and wishful old family was abandoned by Tang Xuanzong. At that time, serious people didn't want to associate with clans, let alone get married! However, our proud poet has devoted himself to it! Integrity is missing again!
Later, Li Bai was hired by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and was called "Bachelor of Hanlin". Taoist priest recommended it to the emperor. Most of the free and easy activities in Qing dynasty were concentrated in poetry, while bowing to dignitaries took place in real life. The poet has to do this n times, but fortunately there will be an echo in the end. However, the poet was adopted by the prime minister twice and did not get any practical benefits. Most of them were pointed out by him before his death, and there were some puzzles and criticisms behind them.
From the portraits handed down from generation to generation by Li Bai, we can appreciate and imagine that this poet is elegant, handsome, magnificent and never vulgar. When the teacher of the Crown Prince met the poet for the first time, he sighed and called him "fallen immortal". "This is not a mortal, it is a fairy!" He immediately took off his gold ornaments and invited the poet to the restaurant for a drink.
This is a great poet. He is so charming and skilled, but he has also fought some wars. Poems like "Ten steps to kill one person, a thousand miles away" and "Put yourself under the sword and commit suicide in the world of mortals" are by no means a poet's fantasy, delusion or boasting, but more like an outspoken confession. Without practice, it is difficult to record this experience with such heroic, vivid and bloody poems!
Later generations summed up the glory of the Tang Dynasty and said that there were three unique things in the Tang Dynasty that could not be carried by future generations: Zhang Xu's cursive script; Pei Min's fencing; Li Bai's poems and songs. The first swordsman in the Tang Dynasty was General Pei, namely Pei _. A poet with a gift for poetry is not only good at poetry and wine, but also good at fencing. At that time, there was an article saying that Li Bai's fencing was "second in the world". I find it difficult to verify whether it is really the second type. But what is certain is that the poet's sword can kill people! Some students even put themselves under Li Bai's door and regarded him as a master, not learning poetry, but learning fencing. This shows that Li Bai's fencing should be quite superb!
There is such a sentence in the poem of Yang County's satrap Lu Diao: "I used to be a cockfighter, and I also expanded Wuling Hao." Invitation to cover up the organization, oh, afraid of losing it. You drive a thousand people, pommel horse. I rushed to Sendai and left the north gate. "Li Bai clashed with some gangsters who took cockfighting as their profession. Those bad boys found a group of local social brothers to beat Li Bai. Facing a group of ghosts and gods waving kitchen knives and sticks, Li Bai's swordsmanship is overwhelming. He suddenly felt great pressure, and his life was at a critical juncture! Fortunately, the land sculpture with Li Bai rushed out of the encirclement and reported the case to the police. The arrival of government officials eliminated Li Bai's bad luck!
Li Bai's experience is similar to that of North Minell, but absolutely different. Wu Zhilian, a young man who went out of Sichuan with Li Bai, has a good personal relationship with Li Bai. They drank and sang all the way and went to Hunan like crazy. According to textual research, in the battle with a local strongman, Wu Zhihui died, and Li Bai was buried next to Dongting Lake with tears in his eyes.
Why are elegant poets so keen on fighting? Maybe he is an independent fencing master, maybe he refuses to show weakness in front of others, and his momentum is surging in his blood!
Four: The same event experience, but contradictory words [/s2/]
In 744 AD, Li Bai, who had been in a high position for two years, resigned from Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and left Chang 'an, still living a free life without fetters. The experience of being an official shows that the poet is not suitable for politics, and the political situation at that time did not need him. Even if there is, there may not be any achievements! What belongs to the poet should be the vast world outside the palace!
In the 14th year of the Tang Dynasty, in 755 AD, a premeditated rebellion broke out. Two generals in the northern border betrayed the government and led troops to attack Chang 'an. Li Longji, the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty who lost his heroism, was afraid of being stabbed by a sword and took his family to Bashan and Shushui. However, Li Bai, who was still at a loss, was obviously frightened, afraid to walk around again and ran to the south foot of Lushan Mountain to avoid the war. Panic, those things that are usually used to soothe the soul are gone! "On the precious jade sword frame, the golden pommel horse scattered the old friend"!
Li Bai didn't stay in Lushan for long, but something happened: he was invited by Wang Lin to go to the shogunate. The so-called shogunate is to be a consultant and staff officer. However, Li Bai, who died for his country, still danced happily.
Wang Lin is the sixteenth son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, he was entrusted with the important task of recruiting and storing logistics materials in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. Li Lin, who should have done his duty to help the emperor's third brother, led troops to the economically developed and prosperous eastern Jianghuai area without authorization and occupied several important towns in Jiangsu. In fact, his trip to the East had the intention of splitting the world and taking mountains as the king. At that time, the central government and many local officials in Jianghuai were very vigilant. However, naive poets are still brilliant!
The sleepy poet who entered the shogunate wrote a group of poems "Dong Wang's Tour Songs" with excitement, and gave Li Yibo warm praise: "The governors didn't save Yuzhou, the sages came from afar", "Seeing the floating river is like a dragon coming out of the gorge"! Don't forget to boast romantically, "try to borrow the king's jade whip and ask Rong Lu to sit at the banquet. The south wind blows Chen Hu away, westward to Chang 'an, and then to Japan.
The poet has a romantic fantasy, commanding rebellion while drinking. Of course, this fantasy has not been realized, but the bad luck of eating melons has really come!
Wang Lin's series of rampant and hard and soft behaviors finally killed Emperor Heng. Finally, Wang Yong's army was defeated by the government forces, and Li Lin himself died. The poet Li Bai was a member of the Rebel Army and was sentenced to "exile". The old poet had to step on the gas pedal to drive Yelang out. Fortunately, before the poet went to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, he met with a national Amnesty and everything went well.
Li Bai evaluated his loyalty to the shogunate of Li Lin. In a poem to his friend Wei Liangzai, he said: "The water army came in the middle of the night and Xunyang was full. An empty name tricked people into getting on the boat. Give 500 gold and throw it away. " Wang Yong army entered Xunyang in the middle of the night, and my reputation as a "bachelor" hurt me very much. They wanted to use my reputation as a "bachelor" to strengthen themselves, so they threatened to force me to join, gave me 520 gold as a salary, and I threw it away like a cigarette!
Li Bai said that he didn't care about the money Wang Yong gave him, but it was in line with the poet's character of treating money like dirt. Incredibly, however, Li Lin and his gang threatened him, and he remembered his poem "Ode to an Epic". Wei Liangzhai was then the governor of Jiangxia, in charge of a region and a public power figure. Li Bai gave the society a chance to question him.
Wang Wei, a poet at that time, was also intimidated by the rebels in the Anshi Rebellion and became a puppet government. During the Anshi Rebellion, Wang Wei's poems were like this: every family is worried, and wild smoke is born. When will the official return to heaven? Autumn locusts leave the palace and play orchestral music above Qingtang! Sadness, anger, and desire for the king are clear at a glance. After the Anshi Rebellion subsided, Wang Wei's crime of pseudo-government was not investigated, but this poem was praised by Tang Suzong.
Poets use poetry to vent their feelings and express their feelings with poetry. Whether coerced or not, they can tell the truth in the poem.
If you do something wrong, you should salute and admit it, not want to escape criticism. You can only escape for a while, but you can't escape to the end! Actually, Li Bai doesn't have to be innocent. People at that time and now know that his political sensitivity is very low, and his enthusiasm and motivation for serving the country are pure. When he was in the shogunate, he was just a vase and had no objective criminal facts. He just stood on the wrong side and went in the wrong direction.
Analyzing and touching the other side of Li Bai will make people realize that the poet is not only a great poet, but also an ordinary person, who has the desire of ordinary people and shows the diversity of human nature. However, it is difficult for us to stop loving Li Bai's poems. All the melancholy in his life can't hide the eternal light in his poems.