Li Bai, the word Taibai, was born in Ji Cheng, Longxi (now Taian East, Gansu). He is the greatest romantic poet in China after Qu Yuan. His poems are rich in imagination, exaggerated and peculiar, lyrical in scenery and free in writing, forming a unique style of elegance, boldness and grandeur, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
Since He Zhangzhi called him a fallen immortal, and later generations respected him as a poet, it marked the unique position of Li Bai in the history of ancient poetry in China and in the minds of generations of China people. Li Bai is one of the ancient poets in China and even the ancient literati in China. In the Kaiyuan and Tianbao eras of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, other poets often wandered between high dancing and enterprising, hiding their desire to be born and join the WTO. However, Li Bai did not hide his yearning for fame and fortune, and at the same time abandoned it like garbage because he absolutely could not accept the additional conditions for obtaining wealth. He loves all the beautiful things in real life, but shows reckless contempt for unreasonable phenomena, even if the other person is a powerful person who can decide life and death. This attitude, which has been firmly bound by the prison of reality, but is unwilling to accept this bondage, and in turn wants to conquer reality, has become a powerful spiritual force for China people to resist the dark forces and vulgar customs in later generations. This is Li Bai's unique cultural character, which is opposite and complementary to Du Fu's realistic spirit of always paying attention to, caring for and reflecting the destiny of the motherland and the people with a serious and compassionate mood.
In Li Bai's life, two things are essential, one is wine, and the other is friends. Wine is the solace of Li Bai's soul: "Cook a sheep, kill a cow, sharpen your appetite, and let me drink for 300 bowls!"! ... what are bells and drums, delicacies and treasures? I hope I will never wake up after I get drunk. " Wine is the source of Li Bai's creation, which Du Fu called "100 poems of Li Bai contending for wine". Wine is Li's innate, wild and uninhibited personality charm: "The emperor comes at the call of the moment, but says he is Brewmaster" and "Brewmaster forgets his old friends, and only Brewmaster is famous forever". With wine, friends are Li Bai's emotional support. "Peach Blossom Lake is deeper than thousands of feet, but not as good as Wang Lun", "I am worried about the bright moon, and the wind blows late to the west" and "I only watch the Yangtze River flowing in the sky". In Li Bai's poetry collection, poems entitled "Give", "Don't", "Don't", "Send", "Answer" and "Cry" account for a large proportion. There are many poems that are actually about friendship, although they don't name names.
Now there are more than 990 poems and songs by Li Bai. There are a large number of political lyric poems, which fully show the poet's extraordinary ambition, unrestrained passion and chivalrous spirit, and also represent the typical tone of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai has a strong sense of self and compares himself with Dapeng many times. "Dapeng rises with the wind in one day, soaring to nine Wan Li" and "Li Yong". However, Li Bai's frustration in Chang 'an for three years made his passionate political enthusiasm turn into a wild song of grief and indignation under the collision of reality, and gushed out from his chest: "The road is as wide as the sky, and there is no way out in front of me. I am ashamed to follow those people who have no backbone, and I will fight with chickens and dogs to bet on pears, so that I can return home with no fish to eat, and I will not succumb to the gentry." Li Bai also used a hearty drinking poem to dispel the sadness of his talent. "Into the wine": "Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he likes, and never point his golden cup at the moon! Since God has given talents, let them be used! , spin one thousand silver, all come back! Cook a sheep, kill a cow, sharpen your appetite, and let me, 300 bowls, take a long drink! " It is in line with this unrestrained emotional momentum. The remarkable characteristics of Li Bai's poems in artistic techniques are: magical imagination, endless changes, vertical and horizontal structure and patchwork sentence patterns, which form a magnificent and elegant style.
The most fascinating thing about Li Bai is his pride in front of powerful people. In Li Bai's place, pride is the strongest self-confidence, which comes from the proudest prosperous Tang Dynasty in China. The vigorous spirit of the times permeates Li Bai's blood and is manifested in Li Bai's poems. He never doubted himself, so he had "since God gave talent, let it be used!" " . Li Bai turned inward humanistic spirit to opening to the outside world. Through his poems, we see a person's real inner world. What he can best embody is a kind of human awakening, a kind of unrestrained release of self-emotion. His works are unrestrained, lively, natural and vivid from content to expression, showing a unique aesthetic feeling. How does a special style in Li Bai's poems cause this unique aesthetic feeling?
One is approachable. In Li Bai's poems and songs, uncommon words are rarely used, and most of the allusions used are well known. These poems are colloquial, clear and easy for readers to understand. In the silent night, he thought, "There is such bright light at the foot of my bed. Could it have frosted?"? . Looking up, I found that it was moonlight, sinking again, and I suddenly thought of home. " Really understand. Even Su Shi, who compared himself to Li Bai, said that such works were "vulnerable". In other words, it was too easy and became a problem.
The second is natural simplicity. Li Bai's poems are simple and natural, and he is not good at carving; It is really sincere and literal to express your inner feelings and refuse to distort them. Reading Li Bai's poems is like talking to an old friend who is open-minded, frank, simple, far-sighted, literary and energetic. Such as "Ding Du Hugh": "Yunyang went on an expedition, and both sides spared the merchants. Black cattle rest on the moon, why bother tugboat! Turbid water can't be drunk, and the pot pulp is half turned into soil. When you sing, your heart will cry. A rock of ten thousand people cannot reach the river. Looking at the stone, hiding your tears, mourning for the ages. " It is generally believed that it was written by the author when he was drunk in Hengshan, Danyang in June of the sixth year of Tianbao (AD 747). Through a detailed description of the sufferings of the working people in the Summer Tugboat, this poem reveals the crime that the ruling class ignores people's life and death in order to satisfy their luxury enjoyment. The poet's deep sympathy for the working people at the lower level permeates between the lines of this poem.
Third, a lonely and noble image. Li Bai's poems have created many moving images. The common characteristics of these images are noble, warm and plump, and they don't go with the flow. Ambition is hard to pay, and resentment is well known. But Li Bai firmly believes that "since God has given talents, let them be employed!" Can be solved through self-confidence. Later, Li Bai saw through the darkness of the world and the whole feudal society and simply went to seek immortality and visit Taoism. Seeking the realization of one's ideal in the celestial world is not a criticism and denial of the real society. This is the origin of many works about the moon in his poems. "Drinking asking for the moon" is one of them: "When will the bright moon come to the sky? I stopped my glass and asked now. The moon will never reach the moon, but it is very close to the people. Green smoke as bright as a mirror is flying in the palace, emitting cold light. But when you see the night coming from the sea, would you rather know that it is going to the clouds? The moon is on the white rabbit's back, autumn and spring, and who is the neighbor of Chang's lonely life? Now people are not seen in Gu Yue, but in this month they took the ancients. The ancients said, if people are running water, they look at the bright moon. I only hope that the song is right for the wine and the moonlight shines on the golden urn. " Poetry creates an eternal, beautiful and mysterious image of the moon, as well as a lonely and noble poet himself.
Fourth, the imagination is strange and novel, refreshing everywhere, and rich in imagination. Reading his poems makes people feel high. With rich imagination and exaggerated brushwork, the poem Difficult to Walk in Shu expresses the magnificence, admiration and love for the mountains and rivers in Shu. The spatial range of Shu Dao South is from Qin to Shu, from the capital Chang 'an to Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu, Chengdu. In different times, there were ancient founding monarchs who were close to the present local obedience; The immortal is far away, the five warriors, the sun god and his mount, and Li Bai can recruit them sincerely. Through strong contrast and comprehensive application of various rhetorical devices, he created a magnificent artistic conception, entrusted his broad mind, heroic spirit and pursued a magical and dangerous realm. It is the poet's self-confidence and pursuit to challenge the dark and decadent forces, be fearless and be strong.
Li Bai is the darling of China's traditional culture. For thousands of years, Li Bai's poems and songs have been indispensable spiritual food for China people.