Then why did Li Bai, who only wanted to be a wise prime minister to assist the emperor and create the great cause of Haiyan and Heqing, embark on the road of roaming mountains and rivers?
1. The Li family moved from the Western Regions to Sichuan, and the ferocity of washing the Western Regions was integrated into the gentleness and gentleness of Sichuan.
In 697 AD, a family who had settled in Broken Leaves for many years, led by Commander Li Ke, crossed the Tianshan Mountains from the war-torn western regions and walked through the desert of Wan Li. After hundreds of days and nights of trekking, they finally reached their dream destination, which is now qinglian town, Jiangyou, Sichuan. This commander is Li Bai's father.
Violet's simple folk customs washed away the fierceness of the Li family's western regions and merged into the gentleness and generosity of Shu.
Li Bai was born in Qinglian in 70 1 and spent his youth in Longxi Hospital. Like all tiger dads, when other children only know how to climb trees and pound birds' eggs, Li Bai's father began to teach him nothing.
It seems that from ancient times to the present, there is a strict tiger mother and tiger father behind those talented teenagers. Sometimes Xueba is forced out! Look at Li Bai: at the age of five, he memorized six, at the age of ten, he read a hundred books, and at the age of fifteen, he wrote a poem. Li Bai felt that when he was 15 years old, he had written more great poems than the famous Sima Xiangru. Compared with other friends of the same age, Li Bai also won at the starting line from an early age and became someone else's child. Alas, children should not be too spoiled. They should cultivate a good habit of loving learning from an early age. There is really nothing wrong with this sentence since childhood! I didn't set learning goals when I was young. When the beast comes out, hum! Parents are angry, not to mention angry, that is, angry enough to vomit blood. As for the chicken flying and the dog jumping, it's normal.
Second, Li Bai, a young man with a high heart, failed in his first wish to seek an official position.
In the spring of 7 18, Li Bai, aged 18, came to Zizhou to learn from Zhao Li. Li Bai's teacher is a great legend. Not just famous scholars at that time. He was also a famous strategist at that time, and the long and short classics written by his old man's house were required books for all emperors. This is about how to govern the country and how to manage the people. He was not interested in being an official and lived in seclusion in the mountains all his life. Young Li Bai is full of political ideals. He worshipped Zhao Kun as a teacher, not by accident, but by necessity.
Like all gifted teenagers, Li Bai planned his life goals from an early age, taking Lu Zhonglian, a militarist of the Warring States, as his life idol, eager to assist the emperor like a wise prime minister in ancient times, so as to make Haiyan and the world at peace, and then retire from the world.
Li Bai's boyhood was in the early kaiyuan period, and the Tang Xuanzong vigorously governed it, and the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty began. At that time, it was a narrow road to enter the official career through the imperial examination. You didn't want to take the exam, but you need the recommendation of some powerful people to get the quota. So some talented young people try their best to make friends with dignitaries, let them visit and attend their parties, and then show their poems in high profile at the parties. Through the recommendation of these high-end top-notch people on various social platforms, they successfully drained themselves, improved their worth, and finally succeeded in landing as officials. Wow! It turns out that the routine of attracting countless fans to become super network celebrities through high-end social activities began in Datang thousands of years ago. It's just that Datang's high-end social platform is in the feast of the powerful. Everyone knows today's drainage platform, so I won't go into details.
Li Bai, with a general family, no background, no network resources and no capital to help him, can only take the initiative to visit literary celebrities with his excellent works. Li Bai wants to enter the official career without taking part in the imperial examination, so as to show his ambition of governing the country and calming the world.
Li Yong was a famous writer at that time. His calligraphy and his poems are very good. He is a great poet and his manuscript fee is very cheap.
In 720 AD, the young Li Bai went to Yuzhou to seek the opportunity to be an official. He visited Li Yong, the long-admired secretariat, with confidence. Li Yong opened his poem, and Li Bai's heart was very certain. Sometimes being too confident is not necessarily a good thing. Over time, Li Bai changed from self-confidence to disappointment, and the expected praise did not come.
It turns out that this Li Yong is a lofty person, and he is extremely disgusted with Li Bai's arrogance and contempt. Two people with different personalities can't naturally spark appreciation. The hapless Li Bai hit a nail here. Suffering from writing, Li Bai wrote a poem "On Li Yong", expressing his great dissatisfaction with Li Yong's indifference: I thought you were a character, but you thought I was no good, just like a mortal. I want to tell you that Fu Xuan can still be afraid of the afterlife, and her husband can't be young. This is a declaration issued by a talented teenager to a middle-aged man who has mastered the literary world.
Twenty years later, Li Yong was persecuted to death by traitors, and Li Bai could not hide his resentment. Then he wrote a poem to mourn: "If there is no Beihai in Li See, where is the heroic spirit now?" Twelve Nights of Answering the King shows the heroic and chivalrous spirit of the literati in the Tang Dynasty. The unhappiness in his youth did not affect Li Bai's brave words for Li Yong. Li Bai's evaluation of him is lifelong, which shows the height of Li Bai's personality.
Thirdly, Li Bai, a teenager, spent the most free time as a ranger in his life.
Li Bai, 24, has just finished his studies. Full of illusions about the future, who is still young and willing to stay at home? What teenager doesn't want to break into the outside world? What's more, a teenager like Li Bai should be talented and have martial arts. Such a talented boy with both civil and military skills and a small violet town can't stop the boy from flying. When summer came, Li Bai, a young boy, took his sword out of Shu and began his roaming journey. He came to Jianghan Plain by boat from Sichuan and looked at his wandering hometown. Li Bai was born with the feeling that "the water has brought you a touch of hometown, and the painting is 300 miles", and he went down the river. Li Bai spent the most free time in his life as a ranger.
Li Bai has a generous personality and never looks at others according to their status. He can become sworn brothers with anyone, and he has made many friends along the way. All men are brothers, and communication between men always begins at the wine table. Li Bai was drinking wine and singing with his brothers on the wine table, munching on meat and watching the purse gradually deflate, and spent more than 300,000 yuan in less than a year. Therefore, eight years after Li Bai resigned from the Imperial Academy, when he climbed Songshan Mountain with his friends Cenxun and Yuan Danqiu, he thought of the frustration that his life ambition was nowhere to be displayed. Li Bai wrote: Since God has given talents, let them be employed! , spin one thousand silver, all back! . The money here is probably hundreds of thousands of dollars that young Li smashed at this time!
On the way, I met Wu Dao from Shuzhong, and the two teenagers soon became friends who talked about everything. They walked all the way to osawa, a vast and boundless cloud dream. Unfortunately, the young Wu Dao died on the way, and Li Bai could not accept the reality of his friend's sudden death, and his heart was extremely sad. That night, Li Bai spent the most dangerous night in his life. He was alone in the Woods guarding his friend's body. Maybe it's a burning flame, maybe it's the cold light from Li Bai's sword in the dark. The tiger finally dared not invade Li Bai. The next day, Li Bai buried his friend in Dongting Lake. Continue to embark on a roaming journey.
Wu Guide's early death has always been a pain in Li Bai's heart. A few years later, he returned to Dongting from Nanjing and found the place where Wu Guide was temporarily buried. While he was in tears, he scraped the bones clean with a knife, then wrapped them up and left, borrowing money in Hubei city to bury his best friend again.
4. Li Bai married his granddaughter, the former prime minister, and entered the big quadrangle smoothly.
In 727 AD, Li Bai came to Anlu to seek the opportunity to be an official. Like the last time, Li Bai did not wait for the appreciation of the officials, but he got another kind of fiery eyes. The granddaughter of the late Prime Minister Xu took a fancy to Li Bai and recruited her son-in-law into the rich family. From then on, the frivolous poor boy turned and stepped into the upper class. How lucky! It turns out that Li Bai is also a typical figure of Phoenix Man's successful counterattack!
Li Bai embarked on the road of seeking an official, and his excellent works were circulated all the way, attracting countless powders. In order to follow in the footsteps of Li Bai, Wei Wan, an iron powder, rushed all the way from Bianzhou to Guangling, today's Yangzhou, and met Li Bai. At the moment of meeting, he was deeply attracted by Li Baifeng's elegant and handsome temperament. Wei Wan had no time to unload the fatigue of running all the way, and immediately recorded Li Bai in his eyes: Duh into the hungry tiger. These four words filled the eyes of future generations with infinite reverie.
Li Bai and Mrs. Xu lived in Baizhao Mountain in Anlu after their marriage. For the next ten years, Li Bai has been actively seeking official positions. He wrote several articles to recommend himself to local officials. Perhaps Li Bai's poems are too frivolous, or perhaps he boasts that he is too flashy. In short, Li Bai either embarked on the road of seeking an official position or failed to do so. Repeated failures turned Li Bai into an immortal Xiao Qiang. He once compared himself to a Dapeng in the brave. Li Bai, a struggling Dapeng, flies higher and higher in the powerful airflow of the times. In fact, Li Bai is also somewhat entangled. On the one hand, he is eager to pursue freedom like Dapeng, but he has great political ambitions in his bones. He tried to enter the court to rule the country. To this end, Li Bai responded to this era of opportunity with all his courage!
Li Bai's attempt to make friends with powerful people and be an official failed again.
After ten years of fruitless job hunting, Li Baixin is still actively pursuing the road of seeking an official position. This is not only to realize his ambition, but also because he is unwilling to accept his amazing talent and is ignored by the government. He will continue to fight for it. Li Bai and his wife discussed it at home for a few days and learned the lesson of the last failure. This time, Li Bai changed his strategy. His wife's family has such a good network of resources, why not use it? So Li Bai decided to borrow Mrs. Xu's family connections and make friends with dignitaries in Chang 'an, hoping that through the recommendation of these people, he would quickly go ashore and enter the official career.
At the turn of spring and summer in 730 AD, Li Bai trudged along the rugged Zhongnan Trail. He wanted to go to another hall of Princess Yu Zhen in Zhong Nanshan, south of Chang 'an, and wait for the princess's call, but this time Li Bai was still unlucky. Unfortunately, Princess Yu Zhen went out to play, and Li Bai, who was full of joy, could only wait for the princess's return in another hall alone. This is another few months. Li Bai doesn't understand officialdom routines and lacks harmony between people. Li Baigang withdrew from the hopeless trip and fell into the quagmire of Zhong Nanshan in Chang 'an. For ordinary people who are ambitious and talented, they don't understand that the bureaucratic system in the Tang Dynasty was not really open to the outside world, but there were many hidden rules, and many people were hit hard.
After waiting for several months without results, Li Bai decided to give up Princess Yu Zhen and go back to Chang 'an to make new dignitaries. Still didn't wait for any return, idle and unhappy Li Bai wandered around Chang 'an. This man! When you are unlucky, you will be unlucky wherever you go. Li Bai, who can't get the official position, is in big trouble again. When Li Bai was wandering in the street, he had a conflict with a group of strong teenagers. During the Tang Dynasty, Ren Xia prevailed, and it was common to draw swords and duel in the street, but Li Bai still couldn't beat the powerful people with strong official background, and the danger came to Li Bai again.
After the disaster, Li Bai thought all the way, it is really difficult to ask for an official! Too tired! Jesus Christ. You don't care about me so much, Li Bai, why do you want me to learn this talent! ! ! Do I only deserve to display my talents at home and on the wine table? ! ! ! With great ambition, I came all the way from Sichuan to Chang 'an. I tried my best to serve this prosperous time, but I was teased by fate everywhere. This rugged road to WTO, like the difficulty of Shu Dao, made Li Bai write the famous book Shu Dao Nan for a long time. At that moment, the danger of Shu Dao and the difficulty of being an official overlapped in Li Bai's mind. There are many articles about Shu Dao through the ages, but no one can write about Li Bai's influence. This feeling of perfect integration of natural precipitousness and worldly difficulties.
6. 18 years later, in Daming Palace, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang got up and walked down the steps to meet Li Bai, and served him food in the imperial palace. Li Bai ushered in the highlight of his life.
After the fall of Chang 'an, Li Bai returned to Anlu wearily and lived with Mrs. Xu in a down-to-earth manner, whether discouraged or relieved. At this time, Li Bai completely lost his previous ambition. Every day, he either built a stone room or opened a Shan Ye, wrote poems and drank alcohol. He was a hermit in the mountains. Li Bai, scarred on the road of seeking to govern the country and keep the country safe, can only express his feelings in the cool breeze and bright moon.
Things in the world are so wonderful. When a person tries his best to pursue one thing, it often backfires. When you let go of all desires and are willing to be ordinary, opportunities often meet unexpectedly. Li Bai and Mrs. Xu live a sweet world of two people, dancing swords and writing poems in drunkenness and sobriety, and their poems are famous at home and abroad.
In 742 AD, the opportunity finally came to Li Bai by accident. Tang Xuanzong, who was far away in Chang 'an, called him to Beijing and was enshrined by Hanlin. /kloc-The young swordsman who traveled to Sichuan with deep pockets and peace of mind 0/8 years ago has now become a middle-aged uncle in shock. Li Bai felt that all this should come, but it was many years later than he expected. But it doesn't matter if you come early or late, as long as the opportunity comes.
The brightest period in Li Bai's life began slowly, and the door of Daming Palace opened to him. Through the layers of palace gates, Li Bai came to Chenzi Hall and saw Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty coming down the steps. Li Bai seems to see the hope of love. 18 years ago, this frivolous teenager, who was not favored by the imperial court, was treated by the high-level officials of the Tang Xuanzong at this moment. He stood up and personally stepped down from the steps to meet Li Bai. You know when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty met the Tubo envoy, he couldn't get up! It can be seen how much Tang Xuanzong loved Li Bai and then gave him food in the palace. As a courtier, it is a great honor to eat the food given by the emperor himself! ! ! Haha, it can also be passed down from generation to generation as a family show-off capital.
7. Seeing that he couldn't realize his political ambition, Li Bai resigned and wandered between mountains and rivers.
Li Bai finally got his wish to accompany the king. This year, Li Bai's imperial literati did very well. Li Bai is looking forward to becoming an important minister of the emperor one day and realizing his ambition at home, instead of being a royal scholar who writes and draws every day. He is waiting for his chance.
However. . . . . . . The ideal is full and the reality is skinny.
Tang Xuanzong appreciated Li Bai's poems, and he only regarded Li Bai as a scholar, which was quite different from Li Bai's national pride that he later understood.
Although the latter two words are not the same, the difference between Hanlin bachelor and Hanlin sacrifice is not as simple as a river. Bachelor of Hanlin can gradually become an adviser to the emperor and discuss state affairs, and everyone will understand.
So what is the Hanlin sacrifice for? There are different kinds of offerings in the palace, such as tea offerings and wine offerings, which provide services for the emperor to drink tea or play chess with him for entertainment. Of course, Li Bai is a poem sacrifice, and a talented artist presented it to the emperor, which has nothing to do with politics. At this time, Li Bai gradually realized that no matter how close he was to the emperor, he could not express his political ambitions.
Li Bai felt desperate again. In extreme despair, Li Bai can only choose silence.
Time passed slowly in Li Bai's silence. In the middle of the night, Li Bai, who was disheartened, poured himself a drink in the yard and wrote a famous poem "Drinking the Moon Alone": "From from a pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone. No one is with me. Until I raised my cup, I asked the bright moon to bring me my shadow, so that the three of us ",Li Bai was the only yard, and the other two were his shadow and the moon. Loneliness, cold and depression come together.
During the day, Li Bai can drink and write poems with his friends and integrate himself into the noise. When night came, his soul returned to loneliness. He is thinking: What am I doing here? What can we do? Li Bai found his true self in the quiet moonlight.
Li Bai once boasted that he was Dapeng, the Dapeng who only advocated freedom and soared in the vast world. All Li Bai is a person who pursues freedom of advance and retreat. He can stand on the imperial court, display his ambition, retire to the immortals, go boating in the East China Sea and stay with the emperor for two years. His political ambition can't be realized. Li Bai saw the helplessness and cruelty of reality from disappointment. He didn't continue to struggle whether to go or stay, but turned his attention to the vast mountains and rivers outside Chang 'an.
Li Bai's straightforward personality prevented him from integrating into officialdom. Li Bai, who missed freedom, was sent back with money. In this way, two years later, Li Bai left Chang 'an again and embarked on a journey of roaming great rivers and mountains, starting the legendary life of a traveler.
Author's self-report:
Unconsciously ushered in the second half of life, time passed quickly, and it seemed to pass slowly. In ordinary life, I want to leave something behind and write with my heart. Every article is my own understanding and record of life. People come and go empty, just want to decorate their lives with words in this fleeting time. I hope that after many years, children can read my words and understand me between the lines. I left some memories in the world.