The themes of Li Bai's poems are varied. Representative works include seven-character ancient poems, Difficult Road to Shu, it is hard to go, Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream, Wine Coming, and so on. 59 five-character ancient poems with the charm of Yuefu folk songs in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, Long song, midnight Wu Ge, seven-character quatrains, Wang Lushan Waterfall and Wang Tianmen. Li Bai was already famous in the Tang Dynasty. His poem "There is no set volume, but every family has it". He is the first poet in China's poetry. Li Bai's ancestral home is in Longxi (now Ji Cheng Township, Jingning County, Gansu Province) Ji Cheng. At the end of Sui Dynasty, he moved to Broken Leaf City in Central Asia (now near tokmak in northern Kyrgyzstan), where Li Bai was born. At the age of five, his family moved to Zhangming County, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). At the age of 20, he went out of Shu alone and began to wander widely, starting from Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and living in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) in wuyue in the east. He traveled around, hoping to make friends and pay homage to celebrities, so as to get an introduction, climb high in one fell swoop and realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, I have accomplished nothing. Continue to go north to Taiyuan and Chang 'an, east to Qi and Lu, and live in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). At this time, he has made many celebrities and created a lot of excellent poems, which are famous all over the world. In the early years of Tianbao, on the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty called him to Beijing and ordered him to worship the Hanlin. Soon, due to the slander of powerful people, Yu Tianbao was expelled from Beijing in 34 (AD 744 or 745). Since then, he has been wandering in Jiang and Huai, and his thoughts are extremely boring.
In the winter of the 14th year of Tianbao (AD 755), An Lushan rebelled. At this time, he lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain, which coincided with the great army of Wang Yong, and invited Li Bai down the mountain to enter the shogunate. Later, Li Lin rebelled against Su Zong and was eliminated. Li Bai was implicated and sentenced to exile in Yelang (now Guizhou Province). He was pardoned and released halfway from Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) to Xuancheng (now Xuancheng, Anhui). In the first year of Baoying (AD 762), Dai Zong died in dangtu county, Anhui.