Who are the four most famous poets in the history of China?

Immortal poet

Li Bai (70 1-762), whose real name is Taibai, also known as "purple laity" and "fallen fairy", was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was praised as "poetic fairy" by later generations, and was also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. In order to distinguish himself from two other poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Du Li", Du Fu and Li Bai merged again. According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Gui Li, the king of Liang, and he is a descendant of all kings. He is cheerful and generous, loves to drink and write poems, and likes to make friends.

Li Bai has the highest achievements in Yuefu, Gexing and Jueju. His songs completely broke all the inherent forms of poetry creation, no one relied on them, and his brushwork was diverse, reaching the magical realm of unpredictability and swaying. Li Bai's quatrains are natural and lively, elegant and chic, and can express endless feelings in concise and lively language. Among the poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Wonders, while Wang Changling and others wrote the Seven Wonders well. Li Bai is the only one who is good at both the Five Odds and the Seven Odds.

Poet saint

Du Fu (7 12-770), with beautiful words, was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was called "Du Li" with Li Bai, while he himself was called "Poet Saint". Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he moved to Gongxian County, Henan Province.

Du Fu's middle-aged poems are called "the history of poetry" because of his gloomy poetic style and feelings of worrying about the country and the people. His poems are good at antique and rhythmic poems, and have various styles. He accurately summed up his work style with the words "depressed and frustrated", mainly focusing on depression. Du Fu lived in the historical period from prosperity to decline in the Tang Dynasty. Most of his poems involve social unrest, political darkness and people's sufferings. His poems reflected the social contradictions and people's sufferings at that time. His poems recorded the historical changes of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, and expressed the lofty Confucian spirit of benevolence and strong sense of hardship, so they were called "the history of poetry".

Poet demon

Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".

Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and simple and popular language, and are known as "the poet's magic" and "the king of poets". Official to Hanlin bachelor, Zuo Zanshan doctor. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. Up to now, there are Bai's "Changqing Collection", and the representative works include Song of Eternal Sorrow, Charcoal Man, Pipa Travel and so on.

Poetic God

Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-165438+August 24) was born in Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province). Later generations revered him as "Poet God".

Su Shi's views on society and thoughts on life are undisguised in his literary works, among which poetry is the most hearty. In more than 2,700 Su poems, the theme of intervening in social reality and thinking about life is very prominent. Su Shi's attitude towards various unreasonable phenomena in social reality is "out of date", and he always regards criticizing reality as an important theme of his poems. What is more valuable is that Su Shi's criticism of society is not limited to the New Deal or the present. He criticized the long-standing abuses and bad habits in feudal society, and embodied a deeper critical consciousness.

Poetry fanaticism

He (about 659-744) was a poet and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Ji Zhen was born in Yongxing, Yuezhou (now Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in his later years. He was famous for his poems when he was young. Wu Zetian won the second prize in Shengyuan year (695), awarded Guo Zi Simen Doctor and moved to Taichang Doctor. Later, he served as assistant minister of rites, secretary supervisor and prince guest.

As an important poet in the early Tang Dynasty, He's poems played a certain guiding role in the healthy development of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and also had a demonstration significance for the creation practice of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which had a great impact on the prosperity of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and made outstanding contributions to the development and prosperity of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Shi Fo

Wang Wei (70 1-76 1) was born in Zhou Pu, Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi). A famous poet and painter in Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting and music. He is famous for his poems, especially his five words, which praise the landscape and countryside. Together with Meng Haoran, he was called "Wang Meng" and "Shi Fo".

Su Shi once said, "Poetry is like painting in charm, and painting is like poetry in charm" (Dongpo Zhi Lin). Wang Wei is versatile. He brought the essence of painting into the world of poetry and painted vivid works for us with spiritual language and beautiful brushwork. Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are various, including frontier poems, landscape poems, metrical poems and quatrains.

Shi Gui

Li He (about 79 1 year-about 8 17), with a long word, is "the pioneer of Changji's poetry." During the Tang Dynasty, a native of Fuchang, Henan Province (now Yiyang County, Luoyang, Henan Province), lived in Fuchang Changgu, later called Li Changgu, and was a descendant of the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty and Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's uncle Li Liang. Known as "Shi Gui", he was a romantic poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. He, together with Li Bai and Li Shangyin, is called "Li San" in Tang Dynasty, and he is a representative figure in the turning point of poetic style in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.