Speaking of the most famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is probably the first to be mentioned. Everyone should be familiar with Li Bai's life, so I won't go into too much detail here. Li Bai was born in Suiye (now the Chu River Basin south of Lake Balkhash, today's Kyrgyz Republic). If according to the current saying, he is nationalized according to his place of birth, then Li Bai should be regarded as a foreign Chinese. Of course, this was just a joke. At that time, everywhere was the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai returned to Sichuan when he was young, studied in Sichuan and learned Taoism from Sichuan Taoist priests (haha, he couldn't be from the Qingcheng sect). Du Fu once said: "The place where you study at Kuangshan is where you will come home with a healthy head." The Kuangshan here should refer to Kuangshan in Jiangyou, Sichuan, which is also where Li Bai studied in his childhood.
Speaking of which Li Bai is very different from ordinary scholars who are as pedantic and weak as a sick man and have no strength to tie a chicken. Li Bai once laughed at such people: "Lu Sou talks about the Five Classics, and his white hair is dead." Asked about economic policy, he was confused and fell into the smoke. He wears traveling shoes and a square turban on his head. Slowly walking along the straight road, the dust will rise before walking..." Li Bai is definitely not this kind of person. Li Bai himself said: "Fifteen good swordsmanship will be all over the princes; thirty percent of articles will be worthy of ministers. Although he is less than seven feet tall, he is ambitious and ambitious. "Li Bai seems to have practiced martial arts specifically. In my impression, Li Bai's image is also that of a fairy with a sword on his back. Maybe Li Bai is really a knight with profound martial arts. It is said that he really has "hands" "The sword counts people." Look at Li Bai's praise of knights in "The Journey of a Knight": "The guest of Zhao is full of Hu Ying, and the frost of Wu Gou is bright. The silver saddle shines on the white horse, rustling like a shooting star. Kill one person in ten steps (this phrase became the stunt of "kill in ten steps and one" in director Zhang Da's "Hero"), and leave no trace behind in a thousand miles. When the matter is over, he brushes off his clothes and hides his body and name..." Isn't this the kind of situation of a hero who sees the dragon but never sees its end? Du Fu couldn't write this kind of poem, and Bai Juyi couldn't write anything else, because only by understanding the behavior of the knight Only Li Bai can vividly write the style of a knight. Speaking of it, Li Bai often spends a lot of money, often "golden bottles of fine wine are worth ten thousand yuan, and jade plates of delicacies are worth ten thousand yuan." He also said, "What is the master of Yan Shao?" Money must be sold at your own discretion. The five-flowered horse and the golden fur will be exchanged for fine wine, and I will sell the eternal sorrow with you. "Although there is a situation where the wine money is not enough in the following sentence, it can be replaced by "five-flowered horse, thousand gold fur". Where does this "five-flowered horse, thousand gold fur" come from? Li Bai is still very rich. Unlike Du Fu who is everywhere. Credit is the same as before: "Liquor debts are common." Cao Xueqin's life was even worse: "The whole family often eats porridge and wine on credit." Li Bai seemed to have no shortage of money in his life, and the source of his huge wealth was unknown. Suspicion. Some people have verified that Li Bai came from a wealthy businessman family, but the gold and silver that Li Bai could carry with him at that time was very limited. However, Li Bai traveled far and wide, and there was no shortage of money at all. Like an ATM. I wonder if Li Bai is really a knight. Have you ever seen any knights in martial arts novels who have ever worried about money? In Jin Yong's novels, when have Huang Rong and others worried about money, like Qiao Feng? When he ran out of money, he went to the county government office to steal some public funds. Linghu Chong went to a wealthy landlord like "Bai Peipi" to grab some silver. It is unknown whether Li Bai got his money in this way, or else he could have said so confidently, "A thousand pieces of gold." "Return after being gone". Maybe Li Bai was also a knight of the generation, but the name of his poem was too loud, covering up the knight's name.
Li Bai also has another unique thing, that is, he is good at wine. Speaking of poets There are many people who are good at wine, but there are probably not many people like Li Bai who are addicted to wine and poetry. It’s a common saying. Speaking of which, Li Bai drank this wine really hard:
Drinking in the spring: "I sit on the flowers at the feast, and I am drunk by the moon while flying in the wine cup." Without good works, how can one express his elegance? If the poem fails, the punishment will be the amount of gold, valley, and wine (Preface to the Spring Night Banquet in the Peach and Plum Garden). ”
Drink in the summer: “You have no time to worry about your life, so drink fine wine and climb high buildings.” The flat-headed slave shakes the big fan, the May is not hot and the Qingqiu is doubtful. The jade plate with bayberry is set for you, the salt from Wu is as bright as the white snow..."
Autumn drink: "Those who abandon me will not stay for yesterday's day. Those who disturb my mind will have many worries today. The long wind blows away the autumn geese, and you can enjoy the high-rise building..."
Winter drink: "The lonely moon Canglang River Han Qing, the Beidou scattered Chang Geng Ming. When Huaiyu drinks wine, the frost turns white at night, The jade bed and the golden well are towering with ice..."
When friends get together, they drink: "Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng, when you are about to drink, don't stop drinking..."
>Also drinks when one is alone: ??“A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any companionship. Raise your glass to invite the bright moon, and make three people in the shadows..."
When you are happy, drink: "The white wine is newly ripe and returns from the mountains, and the yellow chickens peck at the millet and it is getting fat in autumn. Call the children to cook chicken and drink white wine, the children are laughing and holding people's clothes..."
When I am depressed, I drink: "The platform is worried about the guests, so I sing Liang Yuan songs to the wine..."
Li Bai must have had a lot of alcohol. Nowadays, he would probably drink a whole box of beer. Du Fu and other poets also drank, but when I saw Lao Du drinking, he always seemed to be "willing to drink with his neighbor, and drink all the rest from across the fence." "cup", haha, a glass of wine can't be done at once, and the "remaining cup" has to be consumed. It's hard for him and Li Bai to drink. Lao Du finally got a little bolder from Wei Ba, and he just said "one fell swoop" Tired of ten cups. Even if I drink ten glasses of wine, I won’t get drunk, and I will have long-lasting feelings. "Looking at Li Bai, it's quite different. He has ten glasses of wine, but it's not enough for him to rinse his mouth. When Li Bai said, "I have to drink three hundred glasses at a time," or even more exaggeratedly, "I'll drink when I'm worried." Three Thousand Stones".
This is of course an exaggeration, but you can imagine that if Li Bai came to drink with us today, it would be no problem to "blow" several bottles of ice-cold beer mouth to mouth.
What’s more interesting is that the drunken Li Bai actually imagined the entire Han River as wine pulp. Li Bai wrote in "Song of Xiangyang": "Looking at the green duck head of the Han River from a distance, it is like the first fermentation of grapes. This is If the river turns into spring wine, the lees will build a high platform." Haha, Li Bai imagined that the green river water was like wine, and thought that if so much wine was brewed in the Han River, the wine grains could also build a high platform. This extremely novel imagination can only be imagined by someone other than a drinker like Li Bai. ?
In Li Bai's hazy drunken eyes, those powerful people who were extremely respected were as filthy as dirt. They were just like the so-called "sighing yellow dogs in Xianyang City" (Qin Li Si said to his son before he was executed that he just didn't want to be an official now) , it is impossible to lead a dog to chase rabbits in the wilderness), how can you be like a golden lei under the moon? "So what if you are an emperor? In Li Bai's writing, it is still "but under the three springs, the golden coffin is buried in cold ashes." . It is precisely "bells, drums, food and jade are not expensive, but I hope I will stay drunk and never wake up. In ancient times, the sages were all lonely, and only the drinkers left their names." What Li Bai admired most was the drinker. Li Bai once wrote this poem:
If heaven does not love wine, the wine star is not in the sky; if the earth does not love wine, there should be no wine springs on the earth. Since heaven and earth love wine, their love of wine is worthy of heaven.
I have heard that the Tao is as clear as the sage, and the Tao is as turbid as the sage. Since the sage has drunk it, why do you need to ask for gods? Three cups lead to the great road, and one bucket leads to nature.
But the joy of being drunk should not be passed on to those who are awake.
Oh, looking at how much Li Bai loves drinking, it seems like he said, "If a person doesn't drink, he will be punished by heaven and earth." Jiang Hu Yeyu sometimes thought that if Li Bai met Qiao Feng from "Dragon and the Eight Parts" in Songhe Tower, the two would definitely become lifelong friends after having a few bowls of wine together. Taibai and wine are now inseparable. In the old days, the four characters "Taibai Legacy" were often written on restaurants as advertisements. However, most common people in later generations may drink harder than Li Bai, but the poets are not even close to each other. When they are drunk, If you don't say crazy things and curse people, you are considered a cultured person. The best performance is just Hoho Karaoke.
Another characteristic of Li Bai is that he has an innate "immortal spirit". Li Bai is nicknamed "Exiled Immortal". This nickname is not for nothing. The grand Li Bai can shake the world when he makes a move. The magnanimity of the earth: "The Yellow River falls from the sky and flows to the East China Sea, and flows into the chest for thousands of miles", "Climbs up to the spectacular sky and earth, and the vast river never returns", and "The wind blows for tens of thousands of miles and blows across the Yumen Pass", how can it be done by non-immortals? That's right. "The bright mirror in the high hall has sad white hair, and it looks like blue silk in the morning and turns to snow in the evening." Isn't it something that the immortals who said "Seven days in the mountains last thousands of years in the world" can't understand? "The white hair is three thousand feet long" and "The Yellow River can still be blocked by holding earth" (Li Bai's Yellow River did not dry up as often as it does now. Now it is true that it can be blocked by holding earth. In fact, sometimes it will dry up without holding earth. But Li Bai was an ordinary person at that time. Unthinkable) How dare ordinary people think of these words.
If it is just an exaggeration, Li Bai's poems reveal a noble and immortal temperament from the bottom up. Ordinary people often kneel down to look at the world and the dignitaries, but Li Bai often looks down in the clouds, and even gods seem to be on an equal footing with him. Look at Li Bai's witty saying: "Taibai spoke to me and opened the sky for me." This poem is so powerful that even Taibai and Venus chatted with me, opened the sky for me and invited me in. If an ordinary person were to write this, they would definitely say with sincerity and fear: "Taibai announced the decree of immortality and granted me access to the pass of heaven." And Li Bai seems to be an old friend with the gods. The words "staying in the clouds and receiving cups in the sky" and "traveling together forever and meeting each other in Yunhan and Han" are full of fairy charm.
Li Bai’s arrogance is also full of fairy spirit. Although later generations of literati also said sentences such as "Smiling proud princes", from the bottom of their hearts they still knelt down to look at the princes, and still felt that the princes were noble. As Liu Yong said, "A talented poet is naturally a prime minister in white clothes", he still respected "the prime minister" in his heart. Look at what Li Bai said: "Qu Ping's poems and poems hang over the sun and the moon, and the King of Chu's pavilion is empty on the hills." Qu Yuan's greatness is like the sun and the moon that last forever. That King of Chu, just go and cool off. "An Neng is able to bend his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful, which makes me unhappy." High officials and nobles are nothing. If I am not happy, Master Taibai, I will not serve you. Look at Taibai's poem "A Ballad from Mount Lu to Lu Shi Yuxuzhou": "I am a madman from Chu, and the song of the phoenix laughs at Confucius. Holding a green jade staff, I bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower. The five mountains are not far away in search of immortals, and I will spend my life traveling to famous mountains. ..." This poem is so powerful. Who is Kong Laoer? You know, although Confucius was often like a hungry wild dog when he was alive, he was pulled down from the altar during the Cultural Revolution, knocked to the ground, and stepped on many feet. Even now, he was lifted up and returned to his original position, but after all, he was so bruised and swollen that he could not regain his previous majestic face. However, in Li Bai's time, Kong Laoer's status was "a teacher to all generations", much more than the "Three Represents". His status was much higher than that of his N-generation grandson Kong Fansen. I am afraid he was similar to Marx and Lenin before the reform and opening up. . People either call him "Sage Confucius" or "Confucius", or at worst "Confucius". Li Bai actually had no scruples and called him by his first name "Confucius", as if Confucius was his Like a little apprentice.
Taibai is Taibai, look at the momentum: "Holding a green jade staff, facing the Yellow Crane Tower." Haha, Li Bai wouldn't be holding the Beggar Clan's dog-beating stick (remember, the Beggar Clan's main dog-beating stick is the green jade staff) ), "Farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower", well, I came to Lushan from the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan in the morning. When reading this sentence, I feel like Li Bai flew over from the Yellow Crane Tower. This momentum is like a land god. Li Bai was arrogant towards the emperor, and ordinary officials looked down upon him. There is such a story, "The Biography of Talented Scholars of the Tang Dynasty" contains: Li Bai was released with gold by Xuanzong. He passed by the Huayin County government office on a drunken donkey and couldn't get off the donkey. The Huayin County magistrate was furious and arrested Li Bai for questioning. Li Bai said: "I once ordered the imperial concubine to hold a spoon, a dragon scarf to wipe the vomit, a noble concubine to hold an inkstone, and a strongman to take off his boots. In front of the emperor's gate, Shang Rong walked a horse; in Huayin County, donkeys are not allowed to be ridden?" The county magistrate was shocked and quickly accused him of not knowing. Hanlin came here to ask for forgiveness. This kind of villain is what Li Bai despises. But Li Bai had the character of "arrogant but not tolerant of subordinates, bullying of the strong but not of the weak". When he stayed at Xunni's house at the foot of Wusong Mountain, Li Bai wrote this poem: "I stayed under Wusong Mountain, lonely and joyless. The Tian family It's a bitter autumn day, and the girl next door knelt down to eat the carved rice. The moonlight made her feel ashamed, and she couldn't eat with three thanks. "Here, Li Bai showed no signs of his usual arrogance, but he was so proud of an ordinary person. At that time, even the old woman in the mountain village, who was regarded as "lowly" by ordinary people, expressed her heartfelt thanks and compared her to the "drifting mother" who had been kind to Han Xin.
Xianzai, Taibai!