Zaofa baidicheng
Author Li Bai, Tang Dynasty,
Early in the morning, I bid farewell to Jiangling city, which is high into the sky, thousands of miles away, and the boat is only one day away.
The cries of apes on both sides of the strait are still unconsciously crowing in their ears, and the canoe has passed the heavy green hills.
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This poem was written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he returned from exile for two years. It is also one of Li Bai's most popular poems.
In the spring of 759 AD (the second year of Gan Yuan, Tang Suzong), Li Bai was exiled to Yelang for the case of Li Lin in Wang Yong, passing through Sichuan. When I went to Baidi City, I suddenly received the news of pardon, and I was pleasantly surprised. Then I went to Jiangling by boat.
This poem was written by the author when he returned to Jiangling. The poem combines the poet's happy mood after forgiveness with the grandeur of the countryside and the smooth and light sailing along the river. With exaggeration and whimsy, it is beautiful and elegant, shocking but not artificial, arbitrary and natural.
This poem was written in March 759, the second year of Tang Suzong Gan Yuan. In the first year of Gan Yuan (758), Li Bai was exiled to Yelang for sitting in the case of Li Lin in Wang Yong. The following spring, I went to Baidicheng and suddenly received the news of pardon. The poet was overjoyed and immediately took a boat to Jiangling. This poem was written by the poet when he left Bai Di City and arrived in Jiangling by boat after being forgiven, so it is called "Bai Di Xiajiangling".
Predecessors once thought that this poem was written by Li Bai when he went out to Shu in his youth. However, according to the poem "a thousand miles away in Jiangling, one day" and the inference of Li Bai's trip to the Three Gorges, this poem should have been written when he was pardoned and returned from exile.
The whole poem gives people a feeling of straightforwardness and ethereal. But we can't fully understand the whole poem only by looking at the bold momentum and elegant brushwork. The whole poem is permeated with a sudden passion after hard years, so there is pride and joy in grandeur and quickness.
The pleasure of the clippers left a broad imagination space for readers. In order to express this carefree mood, the poet also deliberately uses rhymes such as "emptiness", "return" and "mountain" as rhyme feet, which makes the whole poem particularly melodious, light and long.