Li Bai (February 8, 701 - December 762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "Exiled Immortal". He was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty and was hailed as the "Immortal of Poetry" by later generations. Together with Du Fu, they are called "Li Du". In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, who are called "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively called "Big Li Du". He is cheerful and generous, loves drinking, writing poetry, and making friends.
Li Bai's "Collection of Li Taibai" has been handed down from generation to generation, and most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include "Looking at Lushan Waterfall", "The Road is Difficult", "The Road to Shu is Difficult", "About to Drink", "Yue Nu Ci", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many other poems.
The Song Dynasty people have biographies of Li Bai's poems and poems (such as the first volume of Wen Ying's "Xiangshan Wild Records"). In terms of its pioneering significance and artistic achievements, "Li Bai's Ci" enjoys an extremely high status.
Early Genius
Li Bai was born in the first year of Chang'an (701). The writing is too white. His place of birth has not yet been determined. However, it is generally believed that Changlong (later changed to Changming to avoid Xuanzong's taboo) in Mianzhou (Brazil County), Jiannan Road, Tang Dynasty, was his hometown. His family background and family are unknown. According to the "New Book of Tang", Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Emperor Xingsheng (Liang Wuzhao King Li Hao). According to this view, Li Bai has the same clan as the kings of Li and Tang Dynasty, and is the younger brother of Tang Taizong Li Shimin. It is also said that his ancestor was Li Jiancheng or Li Yuanji; according to the "Old Book of Tang", Li Ke, Li Bai's father, was the captain of Rencheng. [1]
In November of the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian passed away. Li Bai is five years old. Enlightenment reading began in this year. "The History Book of Pei Chang of Shang'an Prefecture" says: "Recite Liujia at the age of five." Liujia, a primary school literacy textbook in the Tang Dynasty, Changshi, the second official of the state.
In the third year of Kaiyuan (715), Li Bai was fifteen years old. He has written many poems and received praise and awards from some celebrities, and he began to engage in social activities. He also began to accept the influence of Taoist thought. He was good at swordsmanship and liked to be a knight. It is Nian Cen Shensheng.
In the sixth year of Kaiyuan (718), Li Bai was eighteen years old. He lived in seclusion in Daitian Dakuang Mountain (in today's Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province) to study. Traveling to and from neighboring counties, he traveled to Jiangyou, Jiange, Zizhou (the state is governed in today's Sichuan Province) and other places, and gained a lot of experience and knowledge.
Farewell relatives and travel far away
In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan (724), Li Bai was twenty-four years old. Leaving hometown and embarking on a long journey. Then visit Chengdu and Mount Emei, and then boat eastward to Yuzhou (today's Chongqing City).
In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai left Shu, "went to the country with his sword, said goodbye to his relatives and traveled far away." [2]
In the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan (726), Li Bai was twenty-six years old. In the spring, he went to Kuaiji (now Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province). In autumn, he was ill in Yangzhou. In winter, he left Yangzhou and traveled north to Ruzhou (now Linru County, Henan Province) to Anlu (now Anlu County, Hubei Province). When passing through Chenzhou, he met Li Yong. Get to know Meng Haoran.
In the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan (727), it was issued an edict that "people with high talents in civil and military affairs may recommend themselves to the imperial court." There were floods in 63 states across the country and frost and drought in 17 states. Li Bai was twenty-seven years old. He lived in Shoushan, Anlu, married the granddaughter of the late prime minister Xu Yushi, and moved to Anlu. In that year, Wang Changling passed the imperial examination.
In the 16th year of Kaiyuan (728), Tubo invaded repeatedly. Li Bai was twenty-eight years old. In early spring, I traveled to Jiangxia (now Wuhan City, Hubei Province) and met Meng Haoran there.
In the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan (729), on August 5, Xuanzong held a grand celebration for his 40th birthday, and designated August 5 every year as the Qianqiu Festival. He ordered all the states in the world to have a feast and take a three-day holiday. Yu Wenrong managed the country's wealth, enforced tax laws, and amassed it for the court's extravagant use. Li Bai was twenty-nine years old. In Anlu.
Walking in frustration
In December of the 18th year of Kaiyuan (730), Prime Minister Li Bai passed away. Li Bai is thirty years old. Spring is in Anlu. Li Bai, who had raised a glass to invite the bright moon before, visited Pei Changshi of this state many times. Because he was slandered by others, he recently wrote a letter to confess, but he was finally rejected. In early summer, I went to Chang'an to meet Prime Minister Ke Xi and met his son, Prime Minister Zhang. She lives in the annex of Princess Yuzhen (the imperial sister of Emperor Xuanzong) in Zhongnan Mountain. He also visited other princes and ministers, but to no avail. Visit Xingzhou (to the west of Chang'an) in late autumn. Winter tour to Fangzhou (north of Chang'an). That year, Du Fu was nineteen years old and traveled to Jin (now Shanxi Province).
In the 19th year of Kaiyuan (731), Xuanzong appointed many eunuchs, especially Gao Lishi, who was the first to make the decision. In October, Xuanzong visited Luoyang. Li Bai was thirty-one years old. He was poor and depressed in Chang'an, gave up on himself, and associated with the rogues in Chang'an. In early summer, he left Chang'an and passed through Kaifeng (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province) to Songcheng (now Shangqiu County, Henan Province). In autumn, I visited Zhongyue, one of the five mountains in Pengshan Mountain (a famous mountain in Dengfeng County, Henan Province). I fell in love with the mountain residence of my old friend Yuandan Qiu, and I felt like living in seclusion. In late autumn, I stayed in Luoyang.
In October of the 20th year of Kaiyuan (732), Xuanzong went on a patrol to the area north of Luoyang (today's Shanxi Province). recommend. In November, he went to Taiyuan, the northern capital (the place where the Tang Dynasty was founded), to worship Houtu (the God of the Earth) and to grant amnesty to the world. In December, it was returned to Luoyang. In that year, the number of households in the country was 7,861,236, and the population was 4,5431,265, which was the highest record in history. Li Bai is thirty years old. Since spring and summer in Luoyang, he got acquainted with Yuan Yan and Cui Chengfu. In autumn, I returned to Anlu from Luoyang. Passing through Nanyang (now Nanyang City, Henan Province), he met Cui Zongzhi.
In winter, Yuan Yan came from Luoyang to visit Anlu, and the two traveled together to Suizhou (today's Sui County, Hubei Province). At the end of the year, I returned home to Anlu.
In the first month of the twenty-first year of Kaiyuan (733), Xuanzong personally annotated Laozi's "Tao Te Ching". Let the common people (servants and common people with low status) in the world keep a copy of it in their homes, and try out "Laozi's" strategy during the tribute ceremony in the new year. In March, Han Xiu and Zhongshu were in charge of Ping Zhangshi (prime minister). In May, Zhang Jiuling had an affair with Zhongshu. Both of them were upright and dared to give advice. Zhang Jiuling was especially valued for his literary talent and moral articles. The world was divided into fifteen provinces, each with an envoy (responsible for supervising and supervising the politics of the area under its jurisdiction). It was the elder An Jiuyu, and the capital was hungry, so he issued an order to release two million stones of rice from Taicang to relieve the people. Li Bai was thirty-three years old. The stone structure room is located in the peach blossom rock of Baizhao Mountain in Anlu. He opened mountains and fields and lived by farming and studying.
In the first month of the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734), Xuanzong visited Luoyang. In February, there was an earthquake in Qinzhou (now southwest of Tianshui County, Gansu Province). Houses collapsed and collapsed, killing more than 4,000 people. Zhengzhou claimed that Mr. Zhang Guo, a Taoist priest who was born in the Yao period, was personally asked by Xuanzong about the magic of Taoism and immortality. He was awarded the title of Dafu Yinqingguanglu (the silver seal is tied with a cyan tape as a sign of high grade. Deputy position), and he was given the title of Shizhong (an official in the lower provinces of the Tang Dynasty who assisted the prime minister in drafting documents and other items).
Coming to the West to Present Fu
In the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (735 AD), Xuanzong went hunting again. Li Bai happened to be traveling to the West as well, so he took the opportunity to present "Fu on the Great Hunting" in the hope that it would Won Xuanzong's appreciation. His "Great Hunting Fu" intends to use "the great road to support the king and show the vastness of things", and "the holy garden is wild and desolate, and the world is exhausted". It has a vast territory and a situation that is very different from that of the previous generation. It boasts that this dynasty is far away. Victory over the Han Dynasty, and preached Taoist Xuanzang at the end to fit in with Xuanzong's mood of advocating Taoism at that time.
In that year, after Li Bai entered Chang'an, he met Wei Wei Zhang Qing, and through him he presented a poem to Princess Yuzhen. The last two lines said, "When will you enter the young room, the Queen Mother should meet again", wishing her to become a Taoist. Become an immortal. Li Bai also stated in a poem to Wei Wei Zhang Qing that he was in a very difficult situation, hoped to be recommended, and was willing to serve the imperial court. As a result, he gradually approached the upper echelons of the ruling class. Li Bai also met He Zhizhang this time in Chang'an. Li Bai went to Ziji Palace and met He Zhizhang there. He immediately went to pay homage and presented the poem in his sleeve. He Zhizhang greatly appreciated "The Road to Shu is Difficult" and "Wuqi Qu". He Zhizhang was so surprised by Li Bai's magnificent poems and unrestrained style that he actually said: "Are you descended from the Taibai Venus to the earth?" He Zhizhang called him an immortal. Three years later, Li Bai left Chang'an with the sigh "It's difficult to travel, so go back".
Holy to Hanlin
Pictures of Li Bai
In the first year of Tianbao (742 AD), due to the praise of Princess Yuzhen and He Zhizhang, Xuanzong read Li Bai's poems Fu admired him very much and summoned Li Bai to the palace. On the day when Li Bai entered the palace for an audience, Xuanzong came down to greet him, "put food in front of him on a seven-treasure bed, and spooned the soup with his own hands." Xuanzong asked about some contemporary affairs, and Li Bai, relying on his half-life study and long-term observation of society, was confident and answered fluently. Xuanzong greatly appreciated it and immediately ordered Li Bai to serve in the Imperial Academy. His duties were to write poems and entertain the emperor and accompany him around him. Whenever Xuanzong had a banquet or outing, he would order Li Bai to serve as his attendant, and use his agile poetic talent to compose poems to record the events. Although it is not a record of meritorious service, his writings will be passed down to future generations and will be used as a grand event to show off to future generations. Li Bai was so favored by Xuanzong that his colleagues were envious, but some also felt jealous because of it.
In the second year of Tianbao (743), Li Bai was forty-three years old. Zhao Hanlin Academy. In the early spring, Xuanzong was having fun in the palace. Li Bai was ordered to write "Guanzhong Xingle Ci" and gave the palace brocade robes. In late spring, the peonies were in full bloom in Xingqing Pond. Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan admired them together, and Li Bai was ordered to compose "Qing Ping Diao". Increasingly tired of the life of a royal literati, he began to indulge in alcohol and drink himself into obscurity. He and He Zhizhang and others went on a "wine-like" tour, and Xuanzong called him out of court. He drafted an edict while drunk and ordered Gao Lishi to take off his boots. People in the palace hated him and slandered Xuanzong, who ignored him.
Li and Du met
In the summer of the third year of Tianbao (744 AD), Li Bai arrived in Luoyang, the eastern capital. Here, he met Du Fu who was naughty. Two of the greatest poets in the history of Chinese literature met. At this time, Li Bai had become famous throughout the country, while Du Fu was in his prime, but he was trapped in Luocheng. Li Bai is eleven years older than Du Fu, but he is not arrogant in front of Du Fu because of his talent. And Du Fu, who was "a sexual tycoon who was also addicted to alcohol" and "all his friends were old", did not just bow his head in praise in front of Li Bai. The two of them established a deep friendship as equals. When they were in Luoyang, they made an appointment to meet in Liang and Song Dynasties (today's Kaifeng and Shangqiu area) next time to visit Taoism and seek immortality. In the autumn of the same year, the two came to Liang Song Dynasty as promised. The two of them expressed their feelings and emotions here, and used the past to comment on the present. They also met the poet Gao Shi here, who did not have a salary at this time. However, the three of them have their own ambitions and the same ideals. The three people had a great time traveling, commenting on articles and poems, and talking about the general trend of the world. They were all worried about the hidden dangers of the country. Li and Du were both in their prime at this time, and their creative discussions would have a positive impact on them in the future.
In the autumn and winter of this year, Li and Du broke up again, each looking for a Taoist disciple to make Zhenlu (the secret text of Taoism) and teach Taoism. Li Bai went to Ziji Palace in Qizhou (today's Jinan, Shandong) to ask Taoist priest Gao Tianshi Rugui to teach him the Taoism. From then on, he officially performed Taoist rituals and became a Taoist priest. Later, Li Bai went to Anling County, Texas, and met Gai Liao, who was good at writing talismans in this area, and made a real talisman for him. This time, Li Bai achieved perfect results in his quest to seek immortality.
In the autumn of the fourth year of Tianbao (745 AD), Li Bai and Du Fu met for the third time in Donglu. In just over a year, they met twice and met three times, and their friendship continued to deepen. Together they searched for the hermit master, and also went to Qizhou to visit Li Yong, a world-famous essayist and calligrapher at that time. In the winter of this year, Li and Du broke up.
Anshi Rebellion came into being
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755 AD), the Anshi Rebellion broke out. Li Bai fled to Lushan, and he always had the contradictory thoughts in his mind that Li Bai and the Anshi Rebellion had to retire and help the world. . Just at this time, Yong Wang Li Lin left his army to patrol the east, and Li Bai was invited to enter the scene. He believed that the world was in chaos. At this time, the situation in the Tang Dynasty was very similar to that of Yongjia's southern crossing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was a good time to separate the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, he urged King Yong to go straight to Kuaiji, and after King Yong launched a rebellion, he wrote eleven songs of "King Yong's Eastern Patrol Song", including "King Yong set out in the east of the first month of the first month, and the emperor separated the dragon and tiger flags from a distance", "The prisoners in the north of Sanchuan" The chaos is like hemp, running southward from all over the world, just like Yongjia, but with Dongshan Xie Anshi, chatting and laughing for the king to clear the Husha, "The south wind sweeps away Hu Chenjing, west to Chang'an to the edge of the sun" and other words, compare yourself to Xie An, encourage Li Lin The intention of separatism and becoming emperor is clear. King Yong was defeated soon after, and Li Bai was imprisoned in Xunyang Prison. At this time, Cui Huan promoted Jiangnan and recruited talents. Li Bai wrote a poem asking for help, and his wife Zong also cried for help. Song Ruosi, who stationed three thousand Wu soldiers in Xunyang, rescued Li Bai from prison and allowed him to join the shogunate.
In the first month of the first year of Zhide (756), An Lushan proclaimed himself Emperor of Dayan in Luoyang. In May, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi defeated Shi Siming and regained more than ten counties in Hebei. In June, An Lushan led his troops to break through Yuguan and captured Ge Shuhan alive. Li Bai was fifty-six years old. At the beginning of the year, he and his wife Zong fled south to seek refuge. Spring is in Dangtu. When he heard about the fall of Luoyang and the collapse of the Central Plains, he returned to Xuancheng from Dangtu and took refuge in Kuaiji (now Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province). When he arrived in Piaoyang (now Luanyang County, Jiangsu Province), he met Zhang Xu. The summer solstice is in Yuezhong. After hearing that Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi had a great victory in Hebei, they returned to Jinling. In the autumn, after hearing that Xuanzong was heading to Shu, he went west along the Yangtze River and lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain. King Yong issued letters of appointment several times. After much hesitation, he finally decided to go down the mountain and join his shogunate. Li Bai became Song Ruosi's staff and wrote some essays for the Song Dynasty. And followed him to Wuchang. Li Bai was highly valued under Song Ruosi, and he recommended it to the court again in the name of Song Dynasty, hoping to be appointed by the court again, but in the end he was replaced by Changliu Yelang (today's Tongzi, Guizhou).
In the second year of Zhide (757), Li Bai was fifty-seven years old. In the first month of the first lunar month, at the Yongwang military camp, he composed the poem "Yongwang's Eastern Patrol Song". King Yong defeated Danyang, and Li Bai fled south from Danyang. Xuan was beaten into Xunyang Prison. His wife, Zongshi, ran around trying to save him. Jiangnan Xuanwei envoy Cui Huan and Yushi Zhongcheng Prime Minister Song Ruosi tried their best to save him, but he was released. Song Ruosi appointed Bai as the military adviser to take charge of the military's clerical affairs. And accompanied Song Ruosi to Wuchang (now Echeng County, Hubei Province). In September, he was ill and lay in Susong (now Susong County, Anhui Province). He twice sent poems to Prime Minister Zhang Hao asking for help. Finally, he was convicted of Changliu Yelang for participating in King Yong's eastward tour. In April of that year, when Du Fu was forty-six years old, he escaped from the bandit camp and paid a visit to Su Zong in Fengxiang, where he was granted the title of "You Shi".
In April of the first year of Qianyuan (758), Shi Sifan. In May, Suzong dismissed Zhang Hao as prime minister and became the governor-general of Jingzhou. In December, Shi Siming fell into Weizhou (now southern Hebei Province). Li Bai was fifty-eight years old. Li Bai set out from Xunyang and began to live in Yelang for a long time. His wife and brother Zong Sui saw each other off. Late spring and early summer. Passed by Xisaiyi (today's east of Wuchang County) to Jiangxia, visited Li Yong's former residence, climbed the Yellow Crane Tower, and looked at Parrot Island. Arrive at Jiangling in autumn and enter the Three Gorges in winter. That year, Du Fu was forty-seven years old and joined the army for Huazhou Sigong.
Zhe Zhe suddenly died of illness
In the second year of Qianyuan (759), due to a severe drought in Guanzhong, the imperial court announced a general amnesty, stipulating that the deceased should be exiled, and Li Bailiu and others were fully pardoned. After a long period of wandering around, Li Bai finally gained freedom. He immediately sailed down the Yangtze River, and the famous song "Early Departure from Baidi City" best reflected his mood at that time. When he arrived in Jiangxia, Li Bai stayed for a while because his old friend Liang Zai was working as a prefect there. In the second year of Qianyuan, at the invitation of a friend, Li Bai once again went boating with the demoted Jia Zhi to admire the moon in the Dongting, thinking about the ancient feelings and composing poems to express his feelings. Soon, he returned to his old travel places of Xuancheng and Kuaiji. For almost two years, he traveled between the two places, still relying on others to make a living.
In the second year of Shangyuan (761), Li Bai, who was in his early sixties, returned to Zhenjiang due to illness. In Zhenjiang, his life was quite difficult, and he had no choice but to seek refuge with his uncle Li Yangbing, who was the county magistrate in Dangtu.
In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (762), Li Bai was seriously ill. He gave the manuscript to Li Yangbing on his sick bed, composed the "Death Song" and passed away at the age of sixty-two.
There have always been different opinions about Li Bai's death. Overall, it can be summarized into three ways of death: one is death by drunkenness, the other is death by illness, and the third is death by drowning. The first method of death is found in the "Old Book of Tang Dynasty", which states that Li Bai "died in Xuancheng due to excessive drinking"; the second method of death is also found in other official histories or research by experts and scholars. It is said that when Li Guangbi was in the east town of Linhuai, Li Bai ignored the 61-year-old age and went to ask for a tassel to kill the enemy after hearing the news. He hoped to do his best to save the country from danger in his twilight years. He returned due to illness and died of illness the next year. The magistrate of Dangtu County, Tang Dynasty The most famous seal calligrapher of the time, Li Yang Bingchu; the third way of death is often found in folklore, which is very romantic. It is said that Li Bai was drinking on the Dangtu River, jumped into the water to catch the moon due to drunkenness, and drowned, which is very consistent with the poet's character. . But no matter which way he died, it was directly related to his participation in Yongwang Li Lin's rebellion.
Because Li Bai exiled Yelang, and soon after he was pardoned, his legendary and bumpy life ended. This is an indisputable fact.
Main achievements
Poetry
Overview
Li Bai's Yuefu, song lines and quatrains are the highest achievements. His song lines completely break all the inherent formats of poetry creation, with nothing to rely on, and various brushwork techniques, reaching a magical realm of unpredictable and swaying at will. Li Bai's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language. Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and other Qi Jue wrote very well. Li Bai was the only one who was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue and reached the same extreme level.
Li Bai's poems are majestic and elegant, with extremely high artistic achievements. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the perfect unity of content and art. He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems. Li Bai's poems are rich in self-expression and have a strong subjective lyrical color, and his emotional expression has an overwhelming momentum. He and Du Fu are called "Big Li Du" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Li Du").
Li Bai's poems often use imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques to create magical, magnificent and moving artistic conceptions. This is why Li Bai's romantic poems give people a heroic, unrestrained, elegant and fairy-like feeling. Here's why.
Li Bai's poems have had a profound impact on future generations. Famous poets such as Han Yu, Meng Jiao, and Li He in the mid-Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You, and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, and Gao Qi, Yang Shen, and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poetry.
Style
Bold and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, rich in imagination, wonderful artistic conception, wonderful language, romanticism, and clear intention.
Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He had a heroic character and loved the mountains and rivers of his motherland. He traveled all over the north and south and wrote a large number of magnificent poems praising famous mountains and rivers. His poems are bold and unrestrained, fresh and elegant, rich in imagination, wonderful in artistic conception, and brisk in language. People call him the "Poetic Immortal".
Li Bai’s poetry not only has the typical romantic spirit, but also has the typical romantic artistic characteristics from image creation, material intake, genre selection and the use of various artistic techniques.
Li Bai successfully shaped himself in the poem, expressed himself strongly, and highlighted the unique personality of the lyrical protagonist. Therefore, his poems have distinctive romantic characteristics. He likes to use majestic images to express himself, and expresses his emotions unabashedly and without restraint in his poems, expressing his joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. To the powerful and powerful, he "held a chrysanthemum in his hand and made fun of two thousand stones" (one of two poems in "Send Cui Shiyu after Drunk"); when he saw the hard work of the working people, his "heart broke into tears like rain". When the country was overturned and people's livelihood was in ruins, he "crossed the river and swore to flow, aiming to clear the Central Plains. He drew his sword and struck the front pillar, and it was difficult to repeat the tragic song" ("Nan Ben Shu Huai"), so impassioned; when drinking happily with friends, " The two drank together while the flowers bloomed in the mountains, one cup after another. I'm so drunk that I'm ready to go to sleep, but I'll come tomorrow with my piano in hand." ("Drinking with a Hidden Man in the Mountains"), he is so innocent and straightforward. In short, his poems vividly express his unrestrained character and suave image.
Boldness is the main feature of Li Bai's poetry. In addition to various factors such as thought, personality, talents, emotions, experiences, and other factors, the artistic expression techniques and genre structure used in Li Bai's poems are also important reasons for the formation of his bold and elegant style. Being good at relying on imagination and expressing objectivity subjectively is an important feature of the romantic artistic technique of Li Bai's poetry. Almost every article contains imagination, and some even use a variety of imagination throughout the article. Real things, natural landscapes, myths and legends, historical allusions, and dreams and illusions have all become the medium of his imagination. Often with the help of imagination, transcending time and space, intertwining reality with dreams and fairyland, nature and human society, and recreating objective reality. The images he paints are not direct reflections of objective reality, but the externalization of his inner subjective world, the reality of art.
One of the romantic artistic techniques of Li Bai's poetry is to skillfully combine personification and metaphor, empathize with things, and compare things to people.
Another romantic artistic technique in Li Bai's poetry is to seize certain characteristics of things and add bold imagination and exaggeration based on the reality of life. His exaggeration is not only unique in imagination, but also always combined with specific things. The exaggeration is so natural and invisible; so bold, yet true and believable, it plays the role of highlighting the image and strengthening the emotion. Sometimes he also combines bold exaggeration with sharp contrast to enhance the artistic effect by increasing the artistic contrast.
Li Bai's best genres are seven-character songs and quatrains. Li Bai's seven-character song line adopts the structure of large opening and closing, jumping and swinging. The beginning of the poem is often abrupt, like a sudden surge, while the middle images of the poem change suddenly, often omitting transitional references, and there seems to be no trace to follow. The end of the poem often ends abruptly at the emotional climax.
Li Bai's five or seven character quatrains more represent the fresh and bright style of his poetry. For example, "Early Departure from Baidi City", "Farewell to Meng Haoran in Guangling", "Quiet Night Thoughts", etc., the wonderful thing is that "the eyes only focus on the foreground, the spoken words, but there are overtones and tastes, which make people feel far away."
"("Speaking of Poetry", Part 1)
Some of the language of Li Bai's poems are as fresh as spoken language, and some are bold and unrestrained, not restricted to rhythm, and are close to prose, but they are all unified in "Hibiscus emerges from clear water, natural This is related to his conscious pursuit of natural beauty. He inherited Chen Ziang's literary ideas and took it as his duty to restore the tradition of poetry and Sao. He once said, "Since the Liang and Chen Dynasties, beauty has been extremely rare, and Shen Xiuwen has been elegant. With the rhythm of sound, I will return to the path. Who can follow me but me? " (Meng Qi's "Poetry of Skills·Gao Yi") He advocated "innocence" and satirized the ugly women who "lost their innocence" and imitated the ugly girls, learning to walk in Handan. The natural beauty of his poetic language is the result of his careful study of folk songs and understanding of their popular characteristics. , clear as words, popular and vivid
Representative works
"Wanglu Mountain Waterfall", about to drink, the road to Shu is difficult, sleepwalking Tianmu sings and leaves, a knight's journey, spring thoughts, autumn. Song.