When Li Bai was young, he first entered the poetry world and was praised as a genius. He was praised as a "fallen fairy" by a senior poet before his death. His creation was described by Du Fu as "a hundred poems about fighting wine" and "a poem that makes you cry", which is no different from the alien image that has been exported into poems and passed down from generation to generation in the eyes of the public.
Such turbulent creativity is obviously more in line with the definition of "genius" than Du Fu's hard thinking and hard chanting-Du Fu himself probably won't object to this. While praising Li Bai as a talented poet, he often describes himself as an ascetic monk who "changes new poems and plays and sings".
The creative process described by other poets is similar to Du Fu's, for example, Bai Juyi's "new poems are getting better and better, and old poems are sometimes good and bad", and Jia Dao's "two sentences for three years, one song with two tears" is far from Li Bai's "just spray them with your chest".
Like most great writers, although Li Bai was widely praised before his death, his praise increased gradually after his death, and he was successively given extreme comments such as "Tian Lun", "Li Bai is a genius" and "immortal pen".
Especially when it is mentioned with Du Fu, the image of Li Bai becomes more and more vivid. Ouyang Xiu once said: "Li Bai's genius is free, and he will arrive soon. It was also emphasized that the elegance of Li's poems and the depression of Du Fu's poems almost became the representatives of two diametrically opposite poets-in short, "Poet Sage" is human, and "Poet Fairy" can only be seen from heaven.
In addition, in the article "Differentiation and Analysis of Li Bai's Poems", Mr. Chen compared and collated various rare books of Li Bai's collected works with ancient manuscripts in the Tang Dynasty, excluding unexpected factors such as copying mistakes and relying on annexes in later generations, and finally proved that Li Bai's poems were different from the first draft and the final draft, and many poems were repeatedly revised by Li Bai himself.