Li Bai (701-762), born on February 8, 701, Han nationality, courtesy name Taibai, nickname Qinglian Jushi, was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the history of our country, he was known as the poet. Fairy. His poetic style is bold and elegant, his imagination is rich, his language flows naturally, and his music is harmonious and changeable. He is good at absorbing nutritional materials from folk songs and myths to form his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors. He is a new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan. Together with Du Fu, he is called "Li Du" and is the greatest poet in Chinese history. Li Bai studied a wide range of subjects in his boyhood. In addition to Confucian classics and ancient literary and historical masterpieces, he also browsed the books of hundreds of schools of thought and was "good at swordsmanship." He believes in Taoism and has otherworldly thoughts; at the same time, he has political ambitions to make contributions. Few of the poems he wrote in Shu during his youth remain, but he has shown outstanding talent. When Li Bai was about twenty-five or six years old, he traveled to the east of Shu. In the next ten years, he roamed many places in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Yellow River. Around the 18th year of Kaiyuan (730), he once arrived in Chang'an to strive for a political way out, but returned frustrated. In the first year of Tianbao (742), he was summoned to Chang'an by Xuanzong to serve in the Hanlin Academy. As a literary attendant, he participated in drafting documents and other work. Less than two years later, he was forced to resign and leave Beijing. During this period, Li Bai's poetry creation became mature. In the next 11 years, he continued to roam in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, "traveling around the world and adapting himself to poetry and wine." He still cares about state affairs and hopes to regain his appointment in the court. In the third year of Tianbao, Li Bai met Du Fu in Luoyang and became friends. They broke up the following year and did not meet again. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Li Bai was living in seclusion in Xuancheng (now Anhui) and Lushan. In December of the following year, he was invited to join the Yongwang Li Mufu with the desire to eliminate the rebellion and restore national unity. After King Yong was angry and killed Suzong, Li Bai was also convicted and imprisoned in Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and was soon exiled to Yelang (now in Tongzi, Guizhou). On the way, he was pardoned and returned home at the age of 59. In his later years, he lived in the Jiangnan area. When he was 61 years old, he heard that Taiwei Li Guangbi was leading an army out of Linhuai to attack the Anshi rebels. He also went north to prepare to join the army to kill the enemy, but he turned back due to illness on the way.
The following year, he died of illness in his residence at Li Yangbing, the county magistrate of Congshu Dangtu (now part of Anhui)