In the spring of 76 1, Li Bai lived in the south of the Yangtze River, roaming first in Jinling and then in Liyang and Xuancheng counties. He makes friends just like his free and easy personality, and never pays attention to each other's status, from officials to ordinary people.
However, since he wants to spoil his dinner, he mostly finds rich officials and friends, such as Dou Changshi, Yu, Shengzhou Wang Shizhen and Liyang Wang Taishou. Naturally, he was embarrassed to eat for free, so he wrote a gift poem to the person who invited him to dinner and play. Most of his poems are about drinking, having fun and making friends, and most of them are written after drunkenness.
That's understandable. Only by saying good words and moving people with emotion can you rely on others, and these words are probably unspeakable when you are awake. For example, when he was in Liyang, he wrote two poems for Wang Taishou, both of which were written after drunkenness. He said in the poem "Give Wang Liyang after Snow Drunk": "You have wine at home, why should I worry? The guests will enjoy the trip by candlelight. Xie Shang can dance like a bird without shedding his hair. Going to cross the river in the morning, I miss the Mingyue Building for thousands of miles. " In The Drunken Man's Gift to Wang Liyang after Drinking, he said: "Erhu Ji in the Song Dynasty played far more than in the Qing Dynasty. Raising wine and picking snow is mutually forgiving. " Playing all night and drinking together is also the east wind blowing, fiddling with who our brothers are afraid of. The friendship between them seems deep, but the real situation is hard to say.
Of course, no matter what the true friendship is, Li Bai still appreciates the charity of those officials and friends who don't care about their status. He said in "Xuancheng sent Liu's deputy envoy to Qin": "There are four banquets for fighting wine, and the songs are screaming in the west. You take Dongshan prostitutes, and I recite the poems of the North Gate. It is not easy to make friends with noble people, for fear of hurting the sunflowers in the garden. I gave a purple pony yesterday, and now I have a white jade. Having fun with wine is not enough to solve the problem of lovesickness. "
However, for Li Bai, who loves to spend a lot of money and always thinks that he is "spinning a thousand pieces of silver and coming back", his friend's charity is really a drop in the bucket, which still makes it difficult for him to make a living. In desperation, he had to take refuge in his relatives, that is, his uncle Li family who stayed in dangtu county.
Li Bai is not partial to his relatives. As usual, he wrote poems to each other, played emotional cards and sang hymns. He said in "Accompanying my uncle to visit Huacheng Temple to raise the public and clear the wind pavilion": "Everything is destroyed by flying words. Ji's father hugged the piano, unable to make a sound. In "Uncle Dangtu's Sacrifice to Yang Bing", his pen on the rafters is even more appreciated: "When you put pen to paper and sprinkle seal script, the cloud collapses. The words are shining, and the five colors are Luo Huaxing. Show sentences are all over the country, and high talents are in the sky. When the massacre is difficult, the ancient city is empty. If you live in a house, you will sweep the floor without fiber stalks. Hui Ze flew away again, and the farmers went back to farm. Guanghan water Wan Li, long-flowing jade piano sound. Song Ya broadcasts five mountains, which is still like peace. "In his poems, he praised his uncle's calligraphy, articles and virtue as a county butcher, even more than outsiders. It seems that it is difficult for him to really feel at ease when he goes to a relative's house for dinner.
Regarding his life under the fence, Li Bai lamented: "A flock of birds cherish each other, but the difference is lamentation. Pull out five-color hair, meaning heavy Taishan light. It costs a lot of money to send a small gift to water the long whale. Playing sword is bitter and cold, and the wind is fierce. The moon is bright and the frost is clear. Go home with a sigh, Linchuan Empty Screen Camp. "
Life is unsatisfactory, there is no hope for the future, and when I am old, I still drink like a dog. Li Bai fell ill unexpectedly while boarding at Uncle Tu's house. People are sick, weak and lonely. He wrote in "Interview with Xie Shanting": "When you are old, you will be happy again. Lonely after a long illness, the past is full of glory. Take a trip to Xichi to relax. Let it go, let it go. On the pond in Xiegongchi, spring grass has been born. The flowers are blooming and the mountain birds are singing to me. Tian Jia has good wine, and the setting sun leans on it. When you are drunk, you will return to the moon and welcome the child from afar. "
It seems that Li Bai, who has always disliked playing cards according to common sense, did not stay at home in bed like ordinary people after his illness, but still went his own way and wandered around for fun. Today, he is still drunk and has no taboos. "Since the world can't satisfy our desire, I will let go of my hair tomorrow and take a fishing boat." His free and easy personality, even if he is sick, even if he dies, I'm afraid it's hard to change him at all.
Li Bai, who was in a foreign land, got a sequela after his illness, that is, he especially missed his hometown. In the late spring of 762, Li Bai, who recovered slightly, went to Xuancheng and Nanling for the last time. When he visited Xuancheng, he couldn't help homesick when he saw the azaleas in full bloom. He said in "Looking at the Rhododendrons in Xuancheng": "Shu once heard of Zigui birds, and Xuancheng also saw rhododendrons. One is called, one is ileum, the other is broken, and I remember it on March 3. "
People in China all have hometown complex, especially in their later years, they all want to leave their leaves behind. It is understandable that Li Bai suddenly misses his hometown. However, Li Bai, who almost never returned to his hometown "according to a constant habit in my life", suddenly had such a strong homesickness when he was old and sick. I'm afraid this is not a good sign.
Li Bai is boarding in Dangtu, and his condition is getting worse. Before he died, he entrusted his life's works to his uncle Li. Li said in the preface to the collection of thatched cottage, the first volume of the Complete Works: "Danger means death. There are thousands of drafts, and the collection has not been repaired. " That is to say, when Li retired, Li Bai died of illness, and entrusted him with "Wan Juan Manuscript" before his death.
Li Bai left the last poem before he died, that is, "Come to the Luge Pavilion": "Big Pengfei was shocked by the VIII, and the sky was weak. The extra wind can inspire me forever, and I can swim in the east, hanging on my left sleeve. Later generations spread this, who will cry when Zhong Ni dies? " Many people in later generations think that what Li Bai wrote should be Dying Song, and the word "Lu" is just a mistake in the word "final", based on what Li Hua, a scholar of Hanlin in the Tang Dynasty, said in the Preface to Li Jun's Tomb: "(Li Bai) died in Dying Song in his sixties." In my opinion, if it is called "The Dying Song", it seems a bit mediocre, which is not quite in line with Li Bai's personality that he doesn't like to play cards according to common sense. Moreover, he is a monk, and his outlook on life is different from that of ordinary people. Maybe he has another meaning on the road, because this "road" may mean "the road to heaven" or "the road to death", and a person's "death" may be just another kind of "life" for him.
Except Li said that Li Bai died of illness, there have always been different opinions. The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty says that Li Bai "died drunk in Xuancheng". "New Tang Book" did not say why, but only recorded: "Dai, with the left, has died, more than 60 years old." The Biography of Talented Talents in Tang Dynasty said: "White Night Festival is so yellow and old. We spent a lot of time on cows, catching the moon with wine and sinking into the water." This statement seems a bit romantic, reflecting the love and reluctance of the world to Li Bai.
When compiling the Complete Works of Li Taibai, Wang Qi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, quoted the records in Guangxian Biography and said, "The Year of the White Turtle is after Lotte. One day, when I arrived at Songshan Mountain, I looked at the ancient trees extending eastward, and the curtain was on the ground, looking at it. A man walked up to the front and said, Han Lilin Zhao Xiang. As the Year of the Tortoise is approaching, all his people praised him for his well-dressed clothes and beautiful hair, saying, "I, Li Bai, have also hydrolyzed, and now I am a fairy. "
In the Tang Dynasty's Dragon City Story, there is also a record about Li Bai's immortality: "When I retired, it was said that Li Taibai was immortal. At the beginning of Yuanhe, someone came from Beihai and saw Taibai talking and laughing with a Taoist priest on the mountain for a long time. The Taoist priest crossed the red in the blue mist and left. Taibai shrugged and strode to catch up with * * and walked east. This may also be terrible. "
In fact, Li Bai wrote many poems about immortals before his death, all of which seemed to describe immortals in the celestial world. For example, he said in "Antique Forty-one": "The purple mud sea is in the morning, and Danxia clothes are in the evening. Wave your hand like wood, blowing the western sunshine. The cloud is lying in the octupole, and the jade surface has been frosted. Fluttering into Ni, kowtowing to the emperor. Call me to Tai Su, and the Jade Cup will give me nectar. Long live the meal calendar, why return home? Always go with the wind and fly in the sky. " "Ten Poems of Imitating the Ancient Times" said: "The immortal rode Cai Feng, and it was windy yesterday. The sea is three clear and shallow, and you can find Taoyuan at a glance. I left my green jade cup and my purple Qin Qiong. When the glass is poured, the piano sounds loose. There are two things that are not available in the world. What about pearls and gold? The harp plays the wind in the wind, and the cup exhorts the sky and the moon. Everyone knows the wind and the moon, and the world suddenly becomes clear. " ..... Li Bai's poems about immortals are mostly written by drinking or dreaming. He said in "Drinking the Bright Moon Alone": "The immortal is in a trance, and if he is drunk, it is true." Du Fu said that he was "pathetic enough to pretend to be crazy and sell stupidity". Did he see through Li Bai's drunkenness and dreams and reveal the truth that ordinary people could not understand?
Li Bai is really a true traveler. He regards the world as a hotel, and the afterlife is just a journey of his life. At that time, he "waved his sword to serve the country, resigned from his relatives and traveled far away", and when he went to Anlu to "hide wine", he lamented in "Preface to the Spring Banquet of Brothers Peach Blossom Garden": "The rich in heaven and earth, everything goes backwards; Time flies, and a hundred generations fly by. And floating like a dream, for the joy of geometry? " At that time, he was only a young man in his early thirties, but he had realized the true meaning of life, and he hoped to return to his original nature all his life. No wonder they are called "fallen fairies" by the world.
Li Bai, a fallen immortal, wandered between the immortal world and the mortal world, leading the coquettish poetic world, pushing the poetic art to an unparalleled peak, and writing the immortal legend of China's poetic immortals with poetry.