As we all know, Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty whose talents were superior to others, was praised by later generations and was called the Immortal of Poetry. His poems are either heroic and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, wonderful in artistic conception, or surprising in language. Between the ups and downs, they have the potential to overwhelm mountains and seas. Every sentence of his poems "shudders the wind and rain, and weeps ghosts and gods."
Li Bai is arrogant and self-proclaimed. It is reported that Li Bai extremely despised powerful people, as evidenced by the allusion of "a strong man takes off his boots, and a noble concubine holds an inkstone". It is said that Gao Lishi hated Li Bai because of this incident, and kept slandering him in front of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, which ultimately ruined Li Bai's bright future. He was given a gold and released, and he wandered around the world ever since.
However, Li Bai, who was fearless and loved by the world, actually wrote classic "flattering poems" praising Concubine Yang, such as "Qing Ping Tiao San" "First", an excerpt is as follows: Clouds think of clothes, flowers think of face, spring breeze blows on the threshold, and the dew is rich. If we hadn't seen him at the top of Qunyu Mountain, he would have met at Yaotai under the moon.
According to historical records, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang were admiring peonies in the imperial garden at that time, so Li Bai wrote about Concubine Yang's beauty from the perspective of flowers at the beginning of the poem. He compared clouds to Concubine Yang's clothes and peonies to her appearance, which shows how gorgeous Concubine Yang was when she was admiring flowers that day, and how delicate her face was against the backdrop of peonies.
Then write "spring breeze". On the surface, it says that the flowers look delicate and beautiful under the blowing of the spring breeze. In fact, it refers to the intoxicating beauty of Yang Guimei, who is deeply favored. And the following sentence, comparing Yang Guifei to an immortal descending to earth, is really exquisite.
Qunyu Mountain and Yaotai are both the legendary places where the Queen Mother lives, and the most indispensable thing in both Qunyu Mountain and Yaotai is fairies in fluttering clothes. One "see", Just by "meeting", Yang Guifei's appearance was praised to the heavens without any trace. These three poems by Li Bai were written when he was an official in the imperial court. Even the flattery is so fresh and refined that Li Bai is unique.
Because these three "flattering poems" were so classic, some people even speculated that Li Bai was "in love" with Concubine Yang. Of course, this is actually a matter of speculation. In fact, Li Bai did not live a cool life during the period when he was serving the Imperial Academy. On the contrary, he was very depressed. The three "flattering poems" he wrote praised Concubine Yang to the sky, and they were also "officials". "The Way", just to preserve oneself.
However, Li Bai would not have expected that his poem would become widely circulated and become a famous poem throughout the ages.
Li Bai was a bold and unrestrained man, even in his death. It is said that Li Bai was drunk and boating on the river. Seeing the beautiful moonlight in the river, he stretched out his hand to catch the moon, and fell into the river and drowned. Although this statement is quite legendary, its credibility is questionable. In any case, after Li Bai died, his uncle Li Yangbing built a tomb for him on Dangtu Qingshan - Li Bai's Tomb. Later, countless literati and poets came to Li Bai's tomb to write poems and pay homage.
For thousands of years, Li Bai’s tomb has been filled with countless eulogies and has become a spectacle. There are also many famous works, such as "Li Bai's Tomb" by Bai Juyi: Li Bai's tomb beside the Shijiang River, surrounded by endless grass and clouds around the fields. The pitiful bones of the desolate ridge and poor spring were once filled with earth-shattering writings. But the poet is so unlucky that he cannot be the king.
This poem makes multiple contrasts between Li Bai's outstanding achievements, Li Bai's rough fate, the desolation of his cemetery after his death, and the gloom of the literary world in later generations. It expresses his deep sympathy and injustice for Li Bai's ups and downs in his life. Praising Li Bai's greatness. The result is "However, the fate of a poet is so bad that he cannot be a king even if he falls down." Almost everyone can memorize these two sentences, but few can understand the sadness and pain in them.