It is said that Li Bai's father may be a relatively successful businessman, so his family is quite rich. It is said that Li Bai robbed a Book of Songs when he was one year old. His father was very happy and thought that his son might become a famous poet when he grew up, so he wanted to give Li Bai a good name so as not to be laughed at by future generations for his lack of learning.
Because he is very careful in naming his son, the more careful he is, the more he can't think of it. I didn't think of a suitable name until my son was 7 years old.
That spring, Li Bai's father said to his wife and children, "I want to write a quatrain of spring, and there are only two sentences. If you add one sentence to me, you can make do." One sentence is' spring breeze warms a hundred flowers', and the other is' spring is here'. "
Mother thought for a long time and said, "The apricot tree is on fire and the red cloud has fallen."
When Li Bai and other mothers saw it, they didn't think about it. They pointed to the plum trees in full bloom in the courtyard and blurted out: "Plum flowers are in full bloom."
Hearing this, the father clapped his hands and applauded. Sure enough, his son was a poet. The more he reads, the more he likes it. As he was reading, it suddenly occurred to him that the first word of the poem was not his surname. This last white word is really well used, saying that a plum blossom is as holy as snow. So, Li Bai's name came.
Li Bai spent his boyhood in Sichuan. He dabbled in a wide range of knowledge and hobbies since childhood. He not only learned Confucianism and practiced fencing, but also learned the magic of immortals and made friends with Taoist priests.
At the age of 24, Li Bai "waved his sword to serve the country and left his loved ones to travel far away". He went down the river in Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and walked more than half of China, but he was not taken seriously by the court and had to return disappointed.
At the age of 42, under the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned Li Bai to Chang 'an and appointed him as an academician. Li Bai was ecstatic and thought it was time to give full play to his political talents. Before leaving Chang 'an, he wrote in a poem: "Go out with a smile. My generation is Artemisia. " The heroic joy is beyond words.
After Li Bai came to Chang 'an, he was given a grand reception by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty appreciated Li Bai's literary talent very much, and let him write poems to decorate the prosperous scene of the Tang Dynasty, without giving him the opportunity to show his talents politically. So Li Bai was disappointed and depressed, and drank with people every day to relieve boredom.
Li Bai is an unruly, lofty and arrogant person. Because of contempt for dignitaries as their agents, Li Bai was quickly slandered by dignitaries as their agents, and left Chang 'an angrily. Soon, Li Bai met the poet Du Fu in Luoyang, and they forged a lifelong friendship.
Later, Li Bai was imprisoned because of Wang Yong Li Lin's involvement. After being rescued, he was spared the death penalty and exiled Yelang. When he arrived in Wushan, he was released just in time for the imperial Amnesty. Since then, Li Bai has been wandering in Jiangnan.
Li Bai lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. He wrote a lot of poems, which not only reflected the prosperity of that era, but also exposed and criticized the debauchery and corruption of the ruling group, showing the positive spirit of despising the powerful, resisting the traditional bondage and pursuing freedom and ideals.
Li Bai inherited Chen Ziang's thought of poetry innovation and achieved the final success in theory and practice. In his first poem "Antique", he reviewed the whole history of poetry development and pointed out that "beauty is not precious since Jian 'an". And with the heroic spirit, he affirmed the correct way for Tang poetry to pull back the decadent wind and restore the elegant tradition.
In the thirty-fifth "Ancient Style", Li Bai criticized the remaining formalistic poetic style that emphasized simulated carving and neglected ideological content: "A brilliant song is naive."
In creative practice, Li Bai and Chen Ziang have similarities, writing more ancient styles and less metrical poems. However, Li Bai's achievements in learning Yuefu folk songs and vigorously developing seven-character poems far exceeded those of Chen Ziang. His efforts have played a great role in completing the task of poetry innovation.
Li, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, said in the preface to the collection of poems "Caotang Collection" compiled for Li Bai after his death: "Lu Huangmen said:' The legacy of Chen Collection has changed greatly, and the world has changed suddenly. "Today, the poetic style of the dynasty is dominated by Liang Chengong, which has changed greatly and swept the floor to the extreme. This is a correct evaluation of Li Bai's innovative achievements in poetry.
Li Bai's poems are very rich in content. Some poems show his political ideal of contributing to the country and his feelings of caring about the fate and future of the motherland. His "antiques? The poem "West Lotus Mountain" uses the immortal style, but the ending returns to reality from fantasy, expressing anger at the cruelty of the rebels and sympathy for the suffering of the people.
Some of Li Bai's poems fully express his passion for freedom and contempt for wealth. In "Dream on Mount Tianmu", he sighed: "Alas, how can I solemnly bow to those high-ranking officials whose sincere faces will never be seen?"
Some of Li Bai's poems express sincere friendship for friends and cordial feelings for the people, such as "To Wang Lun": "Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, not as good as Wang Lun". The deep affection between friends generate came out.
Li Bai also wrote a large number of poems describing natural scenery. Li Bai is an outstanding poet in China. He enriched the scenery of the Tang Dynasty with his feet and pens. He swept in like a bamboo, and as a result, the clouds in Dongting, the clouds in Chibi, the monkeys in Shu Road and the mighty rivers all flew at once. In poetry, the poet is smart and heroic, like a cloud in the sky; He wandered freely, like a horse galloping on the Yuan Ye. In the poem, the poet swept away the worldly dust, completely restored his immortal posture, his heroism and loyalty, and his wandering reached the extreme. Li Bai's poems describing natural scenery often pin his rich feelings on the scenery, such as Looking at Lushan Waterfall:
The incense burner in Rizhao produces purple smoke. Looking at the waterfall hanging in Qianchuan from a distance, it flies down to thousands of feet. Suspected that the Milky Way had fallen for nine days. "
The poem is in harmony with the scenery. The momentum of Lushan Waterfall "flying down" is full of the poet's high-spirited thoughts and his deep feelings for the splendid mountains and rivers of the motherland.
Li Bai's poems are full of rich romanticism. His poems not only have the strongest romantic spirit, but also creatively use all romantic techniques to make the content and form highly unified.
Li Bai's ardent love for the motherland and his strong pursuit of freedom left an indelible mark on all kinds of life poems, leaving a strong subjective color of self-expression everywhere.
Li Bai expressed his feelings without restraint, gushing out, pouring down and pouring down. When ordinary language is not enough to express his passion, he exaggerates boldly. When things in real life are not enough to describe, compare and symbolize his thoughts and wishes, he uses unrealistic myths and all kinds of amazing fantasies.
Combined with explosive emotional expression, the imagination of Li Bai's poems is unpredictable, often unreasonable and strange. His strange imagination, usually an unusual connection, changes with the flow of emotions.
There is a great leap between one imagination and the next in Li Bai's poems, and the combination of images is also large-span, bizarre and dreamy, changing vertically and horizontally, and as smart as possible.
In Li Bai's poems, imagination, metaphor and exaggeration are often used comprehensively, such as "Snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain are as big as seats" and "White hair is three thousands of feet, and sorrow is as long as long". In addition, Li Bai is also good at using anthropomorphic techniques to make nature have human temperament and play a role in expressing feelings.
In addition to romanticism, Li Bai's poems and songs also have the characteristics of language understanding of nature, without a trace of bitterness and deliberation. Also, Li Bai likes to use bright and beautiful words, such as green, bright, white, blue and gold.
Li Bai has a special affection for the moon. Moonlight and the moon are a bright and transparent symbol for Li Bai, which embodies his yearning and pursuit of bright things.
Li Bai's poems and songs inherited the achievements of the previous generation of romanticism, and with his rebellious thoughts and bold style, they reflected the optimistic creative spirit and the potential power of dissatisfaction with feudal order in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Li Bai's poems and songs not only expand the expressive field of romanticism, but also enrich the expressive techniques of romanticism, which embodies the combination of romanticism and realism to some extent. These achievements make his poetry a new peak of romantic poetry after Qu Yuan.