Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
a seafaring visitor will talk about Japan, which waters and mists conceal beyond approach;
but Yueh people talk about Heavenly Mother Mountain, the clouds are fading or visible.
in a straight line to heaven, its summit enters heaven, tops the five Holy Peaks, and casts a shadow through China.
with the hundred-mile length of the Heavenly Terrace Range, which, just at this point, begins turning southeast.
my heart and my dreams are in Wu and Yueh, flying over the mirror lake and the moon overnight.
and the moon lights my shadow, and me to Yan River.
with the hermitage of Xie still there, and the monkeys calling clearly over ripples of green water.
I wear pegged boots which were first used by Xie, up a ladder of blue cloud.
sunny ocean half-way, holy cock-crow in space.
a thousand rocks turn a road, flowers lure me, rocks ease me. Day suddenly ends.
bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, startle the forest and make the heights tremble.
clouds darken with darkness of rain, streams pale with pallor of mist.
in the Gods of Thunder and Lightning, hills and mountains are crumbling.
cave stone gate, venting in the pit of heaven.
an impenetrable shadow, but now the sun and moon illumine a gold and silver terrace.
and, clad in rainbow garments, riding on the wind, come the queens of all the clouds, descending one by one.
with tigers for their lute-players and phoenixes for dancers, row upon row, like fields of hemp, range the fairy figures.
I move, my soul goes flying, suddenly startled and long.
my pillow and my matting, are the lost clouds I was in.
and this is the way it always is with human joy, ten thousand things run for ever like water toward the east.
and so I take my leave of you, not knowing for how long? But let me, on my green slope, raise a white deer, and ride to you, great mountain, when I have need of you.
oh, how can I gravely bow and scrape to men of high rank and men of high office, who never will suffer being shown an honest-hearted face?
tianmu Mountain Ascended in a Dream, also known as Don't Donglu Zhugong, has long been thought that Tianmu Mountain in tianmu Mountain Ascended in a Dream by Li Bai is Taimu Mountain. Because before Li Bai, no one mentioned Tianmu Mountain, only Tianmu Cen. I think it remains to be verified where Tianmu Cen mentioned by Xie Lingyun is. In addition to the monument erected by people in the Song Dynasty, there is no evidence that Li Bai has been here at present, only passing by. And wuyue's "Tai Mu" is also called "Tian Mu". I doubt it either. Li Bai's poems are said to have been lost, and he never published a collection of poems before his death. When later generations published books, they collected them from many people, and it is also possible that manuscripts were printed incorrectly.
We only speculate that Li Bai has been to Taimu Mountain. We can only find clues from poems.