The breeze is blowing, and the spring is intoxicating. This is the March season for fireworks.
Li Bai learned that his friend Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (Yangzhou), so he sent a letter to invite Meng Haoran to meet him at the Yellow Crane Tower in Jiangxia (Wuchang).
A few days later, Meng Haoran sailed east, and Li Bai personally sent him to the river. The two men shook hands and said goodbye.
On the Yangtze River, which died in the east, Li Bai watched Meng Haoran's sailboat go away. On the way to Yangzhou, he wrote down the famous Yellow Crane Tower to bid farewell to Meng Haoran:
Old friends frequently waved to me, bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower, and traveled to Yangzhou in this beautiful spring filled with catkins and flowers.
My friend's sail shadow faded away and disappeared at the end of the blue sky, only seeing the first line of the Yangtze River and heading for the distant horizon.
Five years ago, 25-year-old Li Bai "waved his sword to serve the country and left his relatives to travel far away". How willful he is with his money. When he left Shu, he scattered 300,000 gold, which is evident in his spending money like water.
No wonder he dared to write "Spin a thousand silver, come back all!" In "Into the Wine".
At the age of 27, Li Bai roamed Hubei and lived in Anlu. He heard that Meng Haoran lived in seclusion in his hometown Xiangyang, so he went to visit.
Meng Haoran, older than Li Bai 12 years old, is a literary predecessor that Li Bai has always admired. Li Meng and his wife hit it off, fell in love at first sight and became good friends.
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In the early summer of this year, when the Yellow Crane Tower sent Meng Haoran to Yangzhou, Li Bai arrived in Chang 'an, the imperial capital, with a dream.
At that time, Li Bai, a talented young man, was in high spirits, eager to be appreciated by the ruling class and show his ambition.
Finally, after twelve years wasted, Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, met him and named him an academician.
All this is inseparable from the support of his other good friend, He.
Like Meng Haoran, He is also a literary predecessor that Li Bai has always admired. They met at Zixiao Palace in Chang 'an at the age of 83.
White-haired, when he finished reading "Difficult Road to Shu" handed by Li Bai, his inner excitement was hard to restrain. He stared at Li Bai and asked in surprise, "Are you too white and Venus descending from the sky?" ? "
In the history of China literature, the story of "a scarab for wine" envied by countless literati happened in this meeting between Li He and Li He.
After He died, Li Bai drank alone, thinking about the past and the present, and felt lost. I have mixed feelings at the thought of "scarab for wine", so I wrote "Two Memories of Wine and Prison" to commemorate:
Prince He Gong, a guest of the Prince, met Yu at the Purple Pole Palace in Chang 'an, and called him "fallen immortal" because he was happy to make scarabs wine. After my death, I was disappointed with wine, but I wrote a poem.
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There are fanatics in Siming, which is really romantic.
Chang 'an calls me a fairy as soon as we meet.
What used to be a good cup turned into Panasonic dust.
Scarab changed wine, but she remembered tears and towels.
Secondly,
When the madman returned to Siming, Yin Shan Taoist greeted him.
Dedicate Mirror Lake to the glory of Juntai Marsh.
People die in their hometown, and there are lotus flowers in the air.
It hurts me to miss this dream.
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In 744 AD, Li Bai, who was summoned by the emperor but didn't get on the boat, claimed to be Brewmaster, was raped and given gold by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
This summer, he met Du Fu in Luoyang.
The two greatest poets in the history of China literature.