Before answering this question, let's talk about Li He's life. Li He was a famous poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and was once known as a "genius". According to "Biography of Li He in the New Tang Dynasty", Li He was the generation of Li Liang, Zheng Wang, the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty. Because he was a distant branch, his relationship with the royal family was relatively distant.
Jin Su, Li He's father, is not very accomplished in poetry, and his official career is not very smooth. He has been an official for many years, but he has not been promoted, so his family is not rich. According to legend, Li He suffered from polio when he was a child, so he was "thin with eyebrows and long fingers and claws". What is
"polio"? Polio is now commonly known as polio.
Li He's appearance is recorded in history books with "thin eyebrows and long fingers and claws", which shows that Li He is different from ordinary people in appearance. Generally speaking, people with physical defects are more likely to feel inferior. As for whether Li He feels inferior or not, Xiao Bian dare not judge. However, his accomplishments in poetry can fully compensate for his physical defects. When he was 15 or 16 years old, he was as famous as his forefather Li Yi with his poems of GongYueFu.
It is said that Han Yu and Huangfu Shi paid a return visit together, and Li He wrote the famous poem "Gao Xuan Guo", which made Li He famous. Li He was going to take the Jinshi exam, but because of his father's death, he had to go home for mourning. At the end of the mourning period, Han Yu wrote to Li He, encouraging him to take the Jinshi exam again. However, because the "Jin" in his father's name was homophonic with the "Jin" of Jinshi, he was reported, and finally failed to take the exam, and he was badly placed.
After being recommended by others, Li He became a junior official with nine grades, and his main job was to organize and carry out activities such as court meetings and sacrifices. This is obviously contrary to his passion of "collecting 5 States in Guanshan", and Li He deeply hates it. He described his mood as "looking like a dog" at this time. Li He was depressed all day long, and finally became ill with depression. He resigned and resolutely resigned and "returned to sleep" in Canggu.
Later, he went to Luzhou to take refuge with friends and got a position as an aide in the army. In 816 AD, in the eleventh year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong, separatist forces were rampant in the northern buffer region, and Li He had to support his illness again and return to his hometown. Finally, Li He couldn't afford to get sick and died in Canggu at the age of 27.
judging from Li He's life, Li He is physically different from ordinary people, with "thin eyebrows and long fingers and claws" and weak body. For a person who is ambitious and has the world in his heart, a healthy body is what he wants. Although he is a royal family, he is only in name, and the poor family conditions inevitably make his mind unbalanced.
Li He is a typical talent, and he failed in the second imperial examination, leaving him nowhere to serve his country. After missing his official career, he was depressed, which can be seen from his poems. His poems are full of words such as "ghost" and "death". This negative psychological state is fed back to his poems, which makes people feel mostly disappointment, bitterness, anger, depression and other emotions. We often say that poetry expresses ambition and emotion, and that's what we are talking about.
Li He can only express his feelings with poems because of his frustration and depression. Throughout Li He's life, from the time he first prepared for the imperial examination, he began his tortuous life, which also plunged him into deep depression and eventually died of depression.