In his early years
According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was the ninth grandson of the Emperor Xing Sheng (King Li Gui of Liangwu Zhaowang). If according to this statement, Li Bai and the kings of Li Tang are actually the same clan, he should be the brother of the same generation of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin.
Some unofficial history said that his ancestors were Li Jiancheng or Li Yuanji, and they fled to the western regions because they were wiped out by the Li people. However, there is no evidence for this statement, and Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were all killed when they were young, that is, after the change of Xuanwu Gate, so it is very unlikely that they will have their own heirs. According to the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, Li Ke, the father of Li Bai, was appointed as a city captain. And live in seclusion for learning.
I began to travel around China in my youth. Around the fifth year of Kaiyuan, Li Bai studied with Zhao Kun, who wrote Long and Short Classics, for more than a year. The study during this period had a profound influence on Li Bai.
In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, I studied in daming temple, Daitian Mountain (about 5 miles north of Changlong County, Sichuan Province). At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan alone and began to roam widely, reaching Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and Wu and Yue in the east, and living in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province).
Middle-aged
Li Bai once dedicated himself to the Hanlin in the first year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (742). Later, in Luoyang, he met Du Fu and Gao Shi, two other famous poets, and became good friends.
In his later years
In the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), Li Bai was 52 years old, and traveled to Handan, Linming and Qingzhang in Guangping County on his way north. Arrive in Youzhou in October. At the beginning, I had the idea of making contributions to the frontier, and I learned to ride and shoot in the border. After discovering An Lushan's ambition, he went to Huang Jintai and wept bitterly. Soon I will leave Youzhou for the south.
When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Li Bai traveled to Huashan, went south to Xuancheng, and then went up to Lushan. In December 756, Li Bai was invited for three times and went down the mountain to find Yang to join the staff of Yong Wang Li Lin.
After Yongwang angered Tang Suzong and was killed, Li Bai was also convicted and imprisoned. Thanks to Guo Ziyi's protection, he was saved from death. He changed to a migrant Yelang (now in Guanling County, Guizhou Province) and was pardoned when passing through Wushan. At this time, he was 59 years old. (See Li Lin's Rebellion)
Li Bai wandered in Jiangnan in his later years. At the age of 61, he heard that Qiu Li Guangbi led a great army against Anshi rebels, so he went north to follow Li Guangbi to join the army to kill the enemy, but he turned back due to illness.
the next year, Li Bai went to his uncle, Li Yangbing, who was then a county magistrate in Dangtu (now Ma 'anshan). In November of the same year, Li Bai died of illness in his apartment at the age of 61 and was buried in Longshan, Dangtu. In the 12th year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (817), the observation made Fan Chuanzheng move his tomb to Qingshan in Dangtu according to Li Bai's last wish.
Death
According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, after Tang Daizong succeeded to the throne, he called Li Bai with a left inscription, but Li Bai was dead at that time.
The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty records that although Li Bai was pardoned in exile, he died drunk in Xuancheng because of excessive drinking on the way. There is a legend in China that "Taibai fished for the moon": Li Bai watched the moon in the boat, got drunk, tried to jump off the boat and fished for the moon, and drowned.
Li Bai has a timeless swan song in all poetic genres. Li Baizhong is good at classical poetry, and is good at seven-character lines, five-character ancient poems, Yuefu poems, five-character quatrains and five-character poems.
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Li Bai's poetic style is romantic and all-encompassing, inheriting the poetic revolution advocated by Chen Ziang, opposing formalism since the Southern Qi Dynasty and Xiao Liang Dynasty, and sweeping away the weak and extravagant style of writing since the Southern Dynasties. No matter in content or form, Tang poetry has been creatively developed.
Li Shifu's personality is strongly subjective and lyrical. His content shows the rebellious spirit of despising vulgarity, resisting and not flattering powerful people. He praises the ranger and immortal, and is known as "Poet Xia" and "Poet Fairy", which is also known as Poet Li Bai in later generations.
Li's poems are rich in imagination, peculiar in structure, extremely exaggerated, vivid in metaphor and full of myths and legends.
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