Li Bai (701-762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi. He is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. He is known as the "Immortal of Poetry" and is also known as "Li Du" together with Du Fu.
Li Bai was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He left Shu alone at the age of 25 and began to roam extensively, reaching Dongting and Xiangjiang River in the south and Kuaiji (Shaoxing) in the east. He lived in Anlu (today's Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (today's Guangshui City, Hubei Province). .
Until the first year of Tianbao (742), due to the recommendation of the Taoist priest Wu Jun, Li Bai was summoned to Chang'an to worship the Imperial Academy. In the year of 1948, he abandoned his official position and continued his wandering life.
According to the "New Book of Tang", Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Emperor Xingsheng (Liang Wuzhao King Li Hao). If according to this statement, Li Bai and the kings of Li and Tang are actually from the same ancestry, he should be the descendant of Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Brothers of the same generation.
It is also said that his ancestor was Li Jiancheng or Li Yuanji, who moved to the Western Regions because his clan was exterminated; but this theory lacks evidence. According to the "Old Book of Tang", Li Ke, Li Bai's father, was the captain of Rencheng. ?
In the second year of the Anshi Rebellion (756), he was indignant about the difficult times and joined the shogunate of Yongwang Li Lin. Unfortunately, King Yong and Suzong had a struggle for the throne. After their defeat, Li Bai was implicated and exiled to Yelang (in today's Guizhou). On the way, he was pardoned and wrote "Early Departure from Baidi City".
In his later years, he wandered to the southeast and went to the Shudangtu County magistrate Li Yangbing. He died of illness soon after. It is also said that he died of illness caused by drinking. (See Pi Rixiu's "Li Hanlin" poetry"). It is also said that he died suddenly due to drinking (see "Old Book of Tang Dynasty"). It is also said that he fell into the lake drunk and drowned by catching the moon. This theory has been around since ancient times and is widely circulated.
His representative works include "Wang Lushan Waterfall", "Difficult Traveling", "Difficult Road to Shu", "About to Enter the Wine", "Ode to Mingtang", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many other poems.
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Li Bai's achievements in Yuefu, Ge Xing and Quatrains are the highest. The lines of his songs completely break all the inherent patterns of poetry creation. They are empty and have many styles of writing, reaching a magical realm of unpredictable and swaying at will.
Li Bai's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language. Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and other Qi Jue wrote very well. Li Bai was the only one who was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue and reached the same extreme level.
Li Bai's poems are majestic and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art.
He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems.
Li Bai's poems are full of self-expression and have a strong subjective lyrical color, and the expression of emotions has an overwhelming momentum. He and Du Fu are both called "Big Li Du" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Li Du").
Li Bai's poems often use imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques to create magical, magnificent and moving artistic conceptions. This is why Li Bai's romantic poems give people a heroic, unrestrained, elegant and fairy-like feeling. Here's why.
Li Bai's poems have had a profound impact on future generations. Famous poets such as Han Yu, Meng Jiao, and Li He in the mid-Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You, and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, and Gao Qi, Yang Shen, and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poetry.
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