In the second year of Zhide (757), Li Bai was 57 years old. In the first month, he wrote a group of poems "Dong Youge", expressing his feelings of serving the country. Wang Yong led troops to patrol the east without authorization, which led to the failure of suppression. Li Bai was imprisoned in Xunyang. Saved by Song Ruosi and Cui Huan. After becoming Song Ruosi's aide, he wrote some essays for Song and followed him to Wuchang.
Li Bai was highly valued under Song Ruosi, and recommended to the court again in the name of Song Dynasty, hoping to be appointed by the court again. Eventually, he was convicted of participating in the patrol of Yongwang Cave (now Tongzi, Guizhou). Du Fu is forty-six. In April, he escaped from the thief camp and lived in Fengxiang, where he was granted the right to take over.
In the first year of Gan Yuan (758), Shi Siming rebelled in April. In May, Su Zong was appointed Prime Minister Zhang Gao and appointed as the secretariat of Jingzhou. In December, Shi Siming captured Weizhou (now southern Hebei Province). Li Bai is fifty-eight years old. From Xunyang, Li Bai began a long-term relationship, and his wife and brother were reluctant to send each other away.
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In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), the court announced an amnesty for the drought in Guanzhong, stipulating that all the deceased were pardoned from Xixi and below. After a long wandering, Li Bai was finally free. He immediately descended from the Yangtze River, and the famous song "Send Baidicheng Early" best reflected his mood at that time.
In Jiangxia, Li Bai stayed for a while because his old friend Liang Zai was a local satrap. In the second year of Gan Yuan, at the invitation of a friend, Li Bai once again went boating with the demoted Jia Zhi to enjoy the moon in Dongting Lake, thinking about ancient love and expressing his feelings with poetry. Soon, he returned to the old places of Xuancheng and Jinling. For almost two years, he shuttled between the two places and still lived on people.
In the second year of Shangyuan (76 1), Li Bai, who was in his early sixties, returned to Jinling due to illness. In Jinling, his life was rather embarrassing, so he had to go to his uncle Li, who was the county magistrate of dangtu county.
In the third year of Shang Yuan (762), Li Bai was seriously ill. He gave the manuscript to Li before he died, and he died.
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