First, born wild, brilliant, unparalleled, poetic and natural.
One, heavy and melancholy, diligent and unusual, sings hard for poetry and helps the world.
Li Bai is the most open-minded and Du Fu is the most bitter. Why is the gap so big?
First look at Li Bai's financial situation. Although Li Bai often travels around the world and praises the country's great rivers and mountains in his poems, he did have poverty in his later years. For example, in his later years, he was exiled because he was involved in the "case" and was pardoned halfway, but his life became a problem. He had to live in Dangtu and was attached to dangtu county Ling Li until he died at the age of 6 1. Thanks to Li's generosity, his painstaking poems have been handed down.
But more often, Li Bai does live a carefree life of "not bad money". In that peaceful and prosperous Tang Dynasty, the great poet had many ways to get money. Among them, the most "simple and rude" is the reward of the Tang court. He once made a "tribute to the Hanlin" in the Tang Dynasty, and wrote a number of classic poems, which made both Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei be elated, but he blamed eunuch Gao Lishi helplessly, and as a result, he was excluded. However, Tang Xuanzong, who was reluctant to part with Li Bai, "paid back the money" to Li Bai. The royal "giving money" in the Tang Dynasty was usually famous for its generosity, so many heroic poems of Li Bai were written after this "taking money and leaving".
Moreover, Li Bai himself is also a very business-minded person. In the era of tourism, he also did manual business. During the Kaiyuan period, he was engaged in the business of reselling copper and lead in Nanling, which was a profiteering industry at that time, and of course it was very hard. However, Li Bai did it with relish. I don't believe his poem: I love bronze official music, and I won't return it for a thousand years. If you need to ask about dancing sleeves, the Buddha will do all the five Songshan Mountains.
In addition, Li Bai had a good family condition in his early years and brought a lot of money when he went out. That's why we have the heroic spirit of "scattering more than 300 thousand" in the history of Shang' an Peichang. His two wives, one is the granddaughter of Prime Minister Xu and the other is the granddaughter of Prime Minister Zong Chuke. They are all rich people, so they naturally have money to give them. It doesn't matter if business is bad and money is gone. There are admirers all over the country, and people treat them everywhere. Even if he was later convicted and exiled, before he was exiled, many admirers lined up to invite him to drink, and the scene was very warm. In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, he was really rich.
Compared with Li Bai, who is not short of money, Du Fu, who is just as famous as him, is often poor to the death of his family in the eyes of many future generations. But in fact, Du Fu was born in an authentic bureaucratic family, and his family's economic conditions were not bad. When he traveled to Chang 'an in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Du Fu's poems were unknown for the time being, and his career was not successful, but he always had the support of his family. That's why I have spare money to accompany Li Bai to travel and form a deep friendship.
During the Anshi Rebellion, Du Fu suffered a lot and witnessed many wars with his own eyes, but he was also a left-hander in the court of Tang Suzong. After living in Shu, under the care of our envoy, he became the staff of the shogunate, which is equivalent to being an official all the time. Bai Maolin, the governor of Kuizhou, also bought Du Fu 40 acres of citrus orchards and gave him 2,000 acres of forest. The industry is not small. During that time, it was also the era of Du Fu's creation blowout. During my three years in Kuizhou, I wrote more than 400 poems in one breath.
However, the war since the middle Tang Dynasty still disrupted Du Fu's quiet life. In his later years, Du Fu left Kuizhou, met with floods and famines, and finally died on a boat from Tanzhou to Yueyang in 770.