Li Bai showed his talent when he was a teenager. At the age of ten, he is proficient in poetry, and at the age of fifteen, he is good at fencing. "Thirty percent of the articles are famous for poetry at the age of thirty." At the age of 25, Li Bai left Sichuan and went down the Yangtze River. He first arrived in Jiangling and visited Sima Cheng, an 80-year-old Taoist. Sima Cheng Town was once received by Wu Zetian, Zong Rui and Tang Xuanzong, and was very famous at that time. Sima Cheng Town met Li Bai and spoke highly of him. Li Bai is very happy. After returning home, he wrote a poem "Fu Dapeng", comparing himself to an ambitious Dapeng. "Fu Dapeng" soon spread, and Li Bai became more famous. In 734 AD, Li Bai went to Xiangyang and met Han Chaozong, the secretariat of Jingzhou. Han Chaozong was famous for rewarding and promoting talents, so there was a saying at that time: "I don't want to seal Wan Huhou, but I hope to know Jingzhou." Han Chaozong naturally praised Li Bai, and Li Bai's self-recommendation letter "Book with Han Jingzhou" also became a famous prose.
The world-famous Li Bai finally came to Chang 'an, Kyoto in 742 AD (the first year of Tianbao). He, an old poet who was then a secretary and a young supervisor, learned that Li Bai had arrived in Chang 'an and personally went to the hotel to visit Li Bai. After reading Li Bai's "Difficult Road to Shu" written about ten years ago, I exclaimed: "This is a fairy who fell from the sky!" From then on, the title of "fallen immortal" spread like wildfire, and Li Bai was also called "fallen immortal" and "poetic immortal".
After Li Bai entered the palace, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was very happy and named him Hanlin. It is said that at that time, Emperor Xuanzong personally walked down the steps to meet Li Bai, and personally prepared soup for Li Bai. Out of trust, he also asked Li Bai to participate in the drafting of letters.
Tang Xuanzong only hoped that Li Bai would become a court poet and embellish some poems for peace and prosperity. However, Li Bai is a man with great ambitions. When I first entered the imperial court, I didn't know much about politics, so I was ordered to write many poems praising Shengping, and soon my thoughts changed. During the Tianbao period, the imperial politics has turned from prosperity to decline, and Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty has gradually changed from a generation of monarchs to a mediocre master. People of insight in the imperial court are worried about the current situation and accidents. Li Bai realized this.
As a world-famous poet, Li Bai's character is also wild. He likes drinking very much and often gets drunk as a fiddler. Du Fu once described him in a poem: "Li Bai has hundreds of poems about fighting wine. Chang 'an went to a restaurant to sleep, but the son of heaven told him not to go aboard, claiming to be Brewmaster. "This kind of personality makes it difficult for him to be tolerated by the powerful in the DPRK. It is said that he offended Gao Lishi, the most trusted eunuch of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. Gao Lishi deliberately distorted his poem Qingpingdiao, making Yang Guifei jealous of him. Finally, even Tang Xuanzong alienated him.
But Li Bai's personality made him "alas, how can I bow and scrape to those high officials whose sincere faces will never be seen!" " At this time, what he yearns for most is the free life that once traveled around the world. So Li Bai wrote to Tang Xuanzong, asking him to leave Beijing. In 745 AD, his request was granted, and he left Chang 'an and began to roam the mountains and rivers again.
In 755 AD, An Shi Rebellion broke out. Luoyang and Chang 'an successively fell into the hands of rebels, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty fled to Sichuan, and Tang Suzong acceded to the throne in Lingwu. On the way to escape, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty appointed his sixteenth son, Li, as the governor of Jiangling, and asked to recruit soldiers and horses to resist the rebels going south.
At that time, Li Bai hid in Lushan Mountain. I passed Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) and learned that Li Bai was here, so I sent someone to invite him to my shogunate. Out of patriotism, Li Bai immediately agreed and wrote eleven songs in praise of Wang Yong.
However, I don't believe Ren's words. He thought he had started to travel eastward and was a separatist in the south of the Yangtze River, so he mobilized troops to destroy Wang Yong. Wang Yong was furious and sent his troops to attack. In this way, he became a rebel, the soldiers fled one by one, and Wang Yong finally defeated himself. Li Bai was also sentenced to death for "disobedience" (with a traitor) Due to the rescue of Guo Ziyi and others, Li Bai was exiled to Yelang (now northwest of Zheng 'an, Guizhou). Before Yelang arrived, the court announced an Amnesty and Li Bai was able to return to Sichuan.
Li Bai spent his later years in Dangtu, Anhui, where his uncle Li worked as a county magistrate. After Tang Daizong acceded to the throne, he wrote a letter to Li Bai, who was left behind. But before the imperial edict came, Li Bai had passed away. He was sixty-two years old that year. Up to now, there are still Li Bai's cenotaph and memorial hall in the area. There are more than 1000 existing poems by Li Bai, a large part of which is his praise for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. After his exaggerated description and fancy rendering, these poems are magnificent and superb. He also wrote many poems reflecting people's lives and attacking dark politics. He is good at absorbing nutrition and material from folk songs and myths. Through his rich and peculiar imagination, his works have a bold and unconstrained style and magnificent colors. He is regarded as the greatest romantic poet since Qu Yuan, and his creation is the new peak of China's romantic poetry. Many works, such as Shu Dao Nan, Jing Ye Si, and The First Generation of Baidicheng, have become masterpieces that have been told for generations.
Li Bai's great achievements in poetry creation can hardly be described in a few words. Perhaps only Du Fu's two poems have the most general power: "Putting pen to paper shakes the wind and rain, poetry makes ghosts cry."