In the history of China's poetry, Li Bai is a poet, Du Fu is a poet saint, and Long Ge's heroic Tang poetry is the best in the world, accounting for half of the country. What's more legendary is that Li Bai and Du Fu, once-in-a-century poetic wizards, turned out to be peers living in the same time and space. What is even more incredible is that they had contacts and left a great friendship that was praised by future generations.
Guo Moruo once wrote in The History of Poetry Gemini: Li Bai and Du Fu are close friends as brothers. Their position in the history of China literature, like a Gemini in the sky, will shine side by side forever. Wen Yiduo, who made an in-depth study of the friendship between Li and Du Fu earlier, even described the communication and friendship with Du Fu with emotional pen and ink. Let's see what a great friendship this is! That year, Li Bai was depressed and met Du Fu. Li Bai was 44 years old. At this time, Li Bai, a middle-aged man, was brilliant, but he could not get the permission of the dignitaries. He was banished from the capital without being asked.
Li Bai was very clever since he was a child and read many poems. At the age of five, I have a family, and at the age of ten, I see a hundred? , once called? A prodigy? . As a teenager, Li Bai was generous, good at fencing, good at making friends, and liked to make friends with heroes from all directions, traveling around with swords. At the age of 20, Li Bai left Sichuan alone and began to travel around the world. His travels range from Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south to wuyue in the east. During his travels, he made friends and paid homage to celebrities, hoping to be introduced, climb the mountain in one fell swoop, and realize his poetic ideal and political ambition.
However, after ten years of wandering, I have accomplished nothing. However, this fairy-like travel career allowed Li Bai to write a lot of poems while enjoying the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland. Not only that, Li Bai was still traveling and got a happy marriage. In 725 AD, when Li Bai traveled to Xiaoshou Mountain, he was recruited by former prime minister Xu as his granddaughter's husband.