Li Bai's poem, "The fire illuminates the world" is: "Seventeen Songs of Qiupu·Fourteen".
The fire in the furnace shines on the sky and the earth, and the red stars are scattered in purple smoke. On a bright moonlit night in Nanlang, songs move Hanchuan. Definition: The fire is shining across the sky and the earth, red stars are splashing, and purple smoke is steaming. The songs of the copper smelting workers resounded through the cold valley on a bright moon night.
Qiupu, located in the west of Guichi County in present-day Anhui Province, was one of the producing areas of silver and copper in the Tang Dynasty. Around AD 753 (the twelfth year of Tianbao), Li Bai roamed here and wrote a poem "Qiupu Song". This article is the fourteenth of them. This is a poem that positively describes and praises smelting workers. It is rare among the vast number of classical poems in our country and is therefore extremely valuable. This is a magnificent picture of smelting on an autumn night. Under the poet's magical brush, light, heat, sound and color are intertwined and reflected, and light and dark, cold and heat, movement and stillness are set off.
About the author
Li Bai (701-762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi. His ancestral home was in Chengji, Longxi (near today's Tianshui, Gansu), and his ancestors migrated to the Western Regions in the late Sui Dynasty. Li Bai was born in Suiye, Central Asia (now the Chu River Basin south of Lake Balkhash in Central Asia, under the jurisdiction of the Anxi capital in the Tang Dynasty). When he was young, he moved with his father to Qinglian Township, Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). As a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai shined with dazzling light. Reading the masterpieces of the poet Li Bai is like appreciating beautiful pearls.