Send Meng Haoran to Guangling
Poem title: Yellow Crane Tower sends Meng Haoran to Guangling. Written by Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Yellow Crane Tower, in today's Wuhan, Hubei Province. Guangling is now Yangzhou, Jiangsu. The full text is: "My old friend bid farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west. Fireworks are descending from Yangzhou in March. The shadow of the solitary sail is gone in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky." The first two sentences are brisk and smooth, with beautiful artistic conception. The last two sentences blend the scenes together, showing the author's deep affection for his friends. It is a masterpiece that has been sung throughout the ages. It expresses the poet's feeling of parting with his old friend.
The Yellow Crane Tower sends Meng Haoran to Guangling [Tang Dynasty] Li Bai
gù rén xī cí huáng hè lóu
The old friend left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west,
yān huā sān yuè xià yáng zhōu
Fireworks descend on Yangzhou in March.
gū fān yuǎn yǐng bì kōng jìn
The shadow of the solitary sail is far away in the blue sky,
wéi jiàn cháng jiāng tiān jì liú
Only See the Yangtze River flowing across the sky.
Interpretation
1. Yellow Crane Tower: The former site is located in Huanghuji, Wuchang, Hubei Province today. It is backed by Snake Mountain and overlooks the Yangtze River. It is majestic.
2. It: go, go.
3. Guangling: the old name of Yangzhou.
4. Old friends: old friends.
5. Ci Ci: The Yellow Crane Tower is located to the west of Guangling. I said goodbye to Guangling at the Yellow Crane Tower, so it is called "ci Ci".
6. Fireworks: refers to the bright spring scenery with willows like smoke and flowers like brocade.
7. Down: Go down the river.
8. End: disappear.
9. Wei Jian: can only see.
10. Sky: the horizon.
Translation:
In the bright spring of March, Li Bai said goodbye to his old friends at the Yellow Crane Tower. The lonely boat seemed to disappear where the water and the sky met, and only the Yangtze River could be seen. Rolling and turning.
[Edit this paragraph] Appreciation
The famous sentence "The old friend left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March."
These two sentences describe the friend's journey to the east of the Yangtze River. In the scene in Yangzhou, the word "fireworks" emits a spring scenery of willows like smoke and flowers like brocade, and the poet's melancholy when bidding farewell to his friends is faintly revealed. The last two sentences deliberately describe the friend's "Western Ci", a lonely sail, accompanying the poet's friend to the distance where the water and the sky are connected. Until the sail shadow disappears at the end of the blue sky, the poet still stands on the top of the building, staring into the distance, unwilling to leave. . There is not a single word in the poem about separation and farewell, but the melancholy and nostalgia for friends who are far away are clearly revealed between the lines. In the poet's writings, deep emotions are embedded in the moving descriptions of scenery, and emotion and scenery have reached a high degree of perfect integration.
Meng Haoran was a famous figure in the poetry world who was highly praised by Li Bai. He was once praised by a poem "I love Master Meng, and he is famous all over the world". Traveling around the world's famous mountains and cities was originally the custom of the open-minded literati of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, a young man living in Anlu, Hubei Province, had long had the idea of ??"going to the country with a sword, leaving relatives and traveling far away, the poor and green mountains in the south, and the vast sea in the east" Travel experience. Therefore, he bid farewell to Meng Haoran, a famous poet in the world of poetry, at the Yellow Crane Tower, a famous tower in Wuchang, and visited Yangzhou (called Guangling in ancient times), a famous city on the left of the Yangtze River. He is a tourist event with "all three". He is full of poetry and his feelings about the world are colorful and without any sentimentality. The first two sentences were originally to explain the time, place, and destination of farewell, but this explanation was transformed by the bright image of "Fireworks in March". Didn't Li Bai have a story about "a dream pen brings forth flowers"? Unexpectedly, as a symbol of his genius, the flowers in his dream writing actually turned into the fireworks in March when he was bidding farewell, which won the ancients call this sentence "a beautiful sentence through the ages." The sky was also moved by the bright feeling of the world. It became clear and clear. Under it, the "lonely sail and distant shadow" moving along the current had no sense of loneliness and desolation. What it pulls is the yearning for life in the vast sea and sky. Life is like flowing water, and love is like flowing water. With infinite attention and attachment, the eyes follow the distant shadow of the solitary sail that disappears from the field of vision, and it turns into water, sky and water, the Yangtze River that lasts forever. The fleeting and eternal scene of famous buildings sending famous people to famous cities has become a poetic symbol of the travel excitement of the poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Creative background
About the Yellow Crane Tower
The Yellow Crane Tower, towering on Snake Mountain in Wuchang, enjoys the reputation of "the most beautiful scenery in the world", and is similar to the Yueyang Tower in Hunan, Jiangxi Tengwang Pavilion is also known as the "Three Famous Towers in Jiangnan". The Yellow Crane Tower was first built in the second year of Wu Huangwu (AD 223) during the Three Kingdoms period. Legend has it that it was built for military purposes. In order to achieve "ruling the country with force and making it prosperous" (this is where the name "Wuchang" comes from), Sun Quan built the city to defend it. Build a building to look out. By the Tang Dynasty, its military nature gradually evolved into a famous scenic spot. Literati and poets of all ages visited here and left many popular poems. A poem written by Cui Hao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "In the past, people have gone on the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here. The Yellow Crane has gone and never comes back, and the white clouds have been empty for thousands of years. The Qingchuan is full of Hanyang trees, and the grass is luxuriant. The Parrot Island. Sunset at Xiangguan "Where is it, the Yanbo River makes people sad" has become an eternal masterpiece and made the Yellow Crane Tower famous.
The Yellow Crane Tower, known as one of the three towers in the south of the Yangtze River, was originally located at the Yellow Crane Alum head of Snake Mountain in Wuchang, Hubei Province. It is said that it was first built in the second year of Wu Huangwu in the Three Kingdoms (AD 223). It was built and destroyed many times over 1,700 years, and was last destroyed by Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. Ten years (1884) fire. There are many legends about the famous building, which makes it more magical. According to records in "Ji En Lu", the Yellow Crane Tower was originally a hotel opened by the Xin family. In order to thank her for her kindness, a Taoist priest drew a crane on the wall before leaving and told it to come down and dance to cheer her up. From then on, the house was filled with guests and business was booming. After 10 years, the Taoist priest came back and played the flute. The Taoist priest climbed on the yellow crane and went straight to the sky. In order to commemorate the immortal man who helped her get rich, Mrs. Xin built a tower on the site and named it "Yellow Crane Tower". Regarding this beautiful myth, there have been three different opinions over the years. The first theory is that the immortal is Huang Zian, the second theory is that it is Fei Yi, and the third theory does not have the name of the immortal. According to "Ji'en Lu" According to records, the Yellow Crane Tower was originally a hotel opened by the Xin family. In order to thank her for her kindness, a Taoist priest drew a crane on the wall before leaving and told it to come down and dance for fun. From then on, the house was filled with guests and business was booming. After 10 years, the Taoist priest came back and played the flute. The Taoist priest climbed on the yellow crane and went straight to the sky. In order to commemorate the immortal man who helped her get rich, Mrs. Xin built a tower on the site and named it "Yellow Crane Tower".
About this beautiful myth, there have been three different opinions over the years. The first theory is that the immortal is Huang Zian, the second theory is that it is Fei Yi, and the third theory is that there is no immortal. The name is introduced as follows:
1. I thought it was the immortal Huang Zian:
According to the "Southern Qi Shuzhou County Chronicle": "In ancient legend, there was an immortal named Huang Zian who rode a yellow crane to pass here. , hence the name." It is pointed out that the origin of the name of Yellow Crane Tower is because an immortal named Zian once passed by this place on a yellow crane, so it was named Yellow Crane Tower.
2. I thought it was Fei Yi, an immortal:
According to the record in "Illustrations": "In the past, Fei Yi ascended to the immortal realm, tried to ride a yellow crane and rested here, so he named the building famous. "It is believed that the origin of the name of the Yellow Crane Tower is that Fei Yi's corpse was interpreted as an immortal queen, and he came back with a yellow crane and rested in this building, so it was named Yellow Crane Tower.
"Taiping Huanyu Ji" says: "Fei Wen of Shu ascended to immortality and rode a yellow crane to rest here." This indicates that Fei Yi was from Shu, and he had an extra "wen" with the previous Fei Yi. There is a person named Fei Yi in the "Three Kingdoms Shu Biography" with the courtesy name Wenwei. Fei Yi and Fei Wenhao, whose corpses were exhumed as immortals, are the same Fei Wenwei from Shu. Since there are no other records, it is unknown. , but because they are all myths and legends, and they are very old, there will be some discrepancies in the records.
3. Just say that he is an immortal:
The record of this legend is more detailed and comes from "Retribution Record". The original text is: "Mr. Xin used to be a wine seller. A gentleman came over. He was tall and ragged. He calmly said to Mister Xin, "Do you want to drink?" Mister Xin didn't dare to say goodbye, so she drank from a huge cup. After half a year like this, Mister Xin never looked tired. One day, the teacher said to Xin that I had a lot of wine debts and had nothing to repay you, so he took a small basket of orange peels and drew a crane on the wall, which was yellow. A person sitting down clapped his hands and blew it, and the yellow crane danced in accordance with the rhythm. Festival, so everyone spent money to watch it. After ten years, the Xin family accumulated tens of thousands of dollars. Later, Mr. Xin came and thanked him. In a moment, white clouds appeared from the sky, and a painted crane flew in. Mr. Xin then built a building here and named it Yellow Crane.
The main idea of ??this myth is that there once was a building. Mr. Xin, who sells wine on weekdays. One day, a tall, ragged and poor-looking guest came here. He asked Mr. Xin calmly, "Can you give me a glass of wine?" He didn't show any signs of neglect because of the guest's ragged clothes, and hurriedly served him a large glass of wine. After half a year, Mr. One day the guest told Mr. Xin: I owe you a lot of money for wine, and I have no way to pay you back. So he took out the orange peel from the basket, drew a yellow crane on the wall, and then beat the rhythm with his hands while singing. The yellow crane on the wall also danced in time with the singing. When other guests in the hotel saw this wonderful thing, they paid to watch it. After ten years, Mr. Xin also accumulated a lot of wealth. One day, the ragged guest came to the hotel again. Mr. Xin stepped forward to thank you and said, "I am willing to support you as you wish." The guest smiled and replied, "Why did I come here for this?" Then he took out his flute and played it. After a few songs, I saw white clouds falling from the sky. The painted crane followed the white clouds and flew to the guests. The guests then climbed on the back of the crane and flew up to the sky on the white clouds. In order to thank and commemorate this moment, Mr. Xin A guest built a building here and named it Yellow Crane Tower.
These three myths not only explain the origin of the name of Yellow Crane Tower, but also give us a good inspiration. The owner of the hotel, Mr. Xin, was helped by immortals and became extremely rich because he did not dislike poverty but preferred wealth.
The above is of course a myth and legend. It was the first time that a building was built on the top of a mountain near the river during the Three Kingdoms period. It was still due to military needs, but later it gradually became a tourist attraction where literati gathered, entertained guests, met friends, recited poems, and enjoyed the scenery. Celebrities in the past dynasties such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Jia Dao, Xia Song, Lu You, etc. all visited it. He visited here successively, recited poems and wrote poems. Cui Hao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, climbed up to the Yellow Crane Tower to enjoy the scenery and wrote a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages: "In the past, people have taken the Yellow Crane to go there, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here." Never to return, the white clouds are empty and clear.
Where is the hometown gate at sunset? The misty waves on the river make people sad. "Later, Li Bai also climbed up to the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at the Chutian. He was broad-minded and inspired by poetry. When he was about to write a poem, he saw Cui Hao's poem. He felt ashamed and had to say: "There is a view in front of me, but Cui Hao can't do it. "Hao wrote the poem above." Cui Hao wrote the poem, and Li Bai put down the pen. From then on, he became famous.
About Guangling (Yangzhou)
An important city and military town on the north bank of the Yangtze River during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu built a ditch here to connect the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, and established a county in the Western Han Dynasty. It was changed to Guangling County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the county was established in today's Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. , moved to Huaiyin. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Guangling County was established along the Wei Dynasty, under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, and later in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Sheyang (now Baoyingdong, Jiangsu Province). To the east of Hongze Lake and Liuhe at the junction of Anhui and Anhui, to the south of Siyang, Baoying, and Guannan, to the west of Chuanchang River, and to the north of the Yangtze River, there is Guazhou Town on the riverside 40 miles south of the city, which is a moraine in the middle of the Yangtze River. It is named after its shape like a melon. The Yangtze River flows in from Liuhe County in the northwest and faces the Jingkou of Dantu County in the south. The two cities are opposite each other across the river, and they echo each other from the north to the south. Together they form an important town guarding Jiankang, the upper reaches of the river. Forty miles later, it gradually narrowed to only about twenty miles wide in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties. When Xie'an was in Guangling in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a fort was built twenty miles east of the city, which was named Xincheng. Xie An built it twenty miles north. Later generations compared Xie An to Zhao Bo of Yan State in the Zhou Dynasty and called this dam Shao Bo Dai. In the sixth year of Huangchu (225), Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi conquered Wu and climbed to the ancient city of Guangling and Linjiang. He sighed and said, "Heaven is limited to the north and the south. "During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Guangling was used to control the three Qi states, and the governors of Qing and Yanzhou were stationed here. In the second year of Xianhe (327), the rebellion between Su Jun and Zu Yue broke out. At that time, Xi Jian was appointed as the governor of Qing and Yanzhou. In the second year of Taiyuan (377), Xie Xuan became the governor of South Yanzhou and moved the military headquarters of South Yanzhou from Jingkou to Guangling, recruiting overseas Chinese to form the Beifu Army. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty, due to the chaos in the Central Plains, refugees migrated south, and the Qiaozhou County was established in Guangling. In the eighth year of Yuanjia in the Song Dynasty (431), Nan Yanzhou was established in Guangling County. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was renamed Wuzhou, which was still an important military town. In the early Sui Dynasty, it was named Yangzhou and the general manager's office was set up. Later it was changed to Jiangdu County. The prefect of Sui Dynasty, Yang Guangshu, wanted to go to Jiangdu. The capital was moved here. In the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to Yanzhou, Hanzhou, Yangzhou, and later to Guangling County.
Yanzhou is located in the southwest plain of Shandong, with "Three Kongs" looking to the east, Mount Tai to the north, and Mount Tai to the south. Weishan Lake, facing the Liangshan Mountains in the west, is known as "Dongwen, Xiwu, Beidai, and Nanhu". It is the economic center of the southwestern Shandong Province metropolis, with a total area of ??651 square kilometers, 600,000 acres of arable land, and a population of 60. It has jurisdiction over 10 towns, 2 sub-district offices, 492 administrative villages, and 30 residents' committees. In 2002, it ranked 60th and 54th respectively in the national county socioeconomic comprehensive development index and regional economic basic competitiveness.
The writing background of "The Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to Guangling"
In the 13th year of Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (725 AD), Li Bai took a boat from Sichuan eastward along the Yangtze River and visited all the way Many places. In Xiangyang (today's Xiangfan, Hubei), he heard that the senior poet Meng Haoran lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain in the southeast of the city, and made a special trip to visit him. Meng Haoran read Li Bai's poems and praised them, and the two soon became close friends. . Meng Haoran entertained Li Bai warmly and stayed with him for more than 10 days.
In March 730 AD, Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), so he asked someone to bring him a letter and made an appointment. Meng Haoran met in Jiangxia (today's Wuchang, Wuhan City). On this day, they reunited happily at the Yellow Crane Tower in Jiangxia. A few days later, Meng Haoran sailed off by boat, and Li Bai personally sent him to the riverside. After driving away, Li Bai stood on the bank of the river, watching the lonely sail gradually go away. He felt melancholy and composed the poem "Farewell to Meng Haoran at the Yellow Crane Tower in Guangling". , the second sentence indicates that the farewell time is in late spring when the flowers are in full bloom, and also implies that the beautiful fireworks will accompany the friends all the way to Yangzhou. Yangzhou was a prosperous city at that time, and the last two sentences must be full of flowers and bright spring. To convey the meaning, the poet pinned his farewell feelings between the blue sky and the river. Although the words were finished, the meaning was not finished, which is endlessly memorable.
Meng Haoran was a famous poet in the poetry world who was highly praised by Li Bai. Ten years later, Li Bai wrote a poem "I love Master Meng, and he is famous all over the world" and praised him. Traveling around the world's famous mountains and cities was originally a trend of open-minded literati in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, a young man living in Anlu, Hubei Province, had long been fascinated by it. I have a travel experience of "going to a country with a sword, leaving relatives and traveling far away, being poor in the south and crossing the vast sea in the east". Therefore, he bid farewell to Meng Haoran, a famous poet in the world of poetry, at the Yellow Crane Tower, a famous building in Wuchang, and visited Yangzhou (called Guangling in ancient times), a famous city on the left of the Yangtze River. He is a tourist event with "all three". He is full of poetry and his feelings about the world are colorful and without any sentimentality.
Li Bai About the Author (Summary of Li Bai’s Life) Li Bai (701-762), born on February 8, 701, Han nationality, six feet six tall, courtesy name Taibai, Qinglian Jushi, a native of Jiangyou, Sichuan. The great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty. His poetic style is bold and elegant, his imagination is rich, his language flows naturally, and his music is harmonious and changeable.
He is good at absorbing nutritious materials from folk songs and myths to form his unique magnificent colors. It is a new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan. He is also known as "Big Li and Du" together with Du Fu. He is the greatest poet in Chinese history. Known as the "Poetic Immortal".
Li Bai’s ancestral home was Chengji, Longxi (now Chengji Township, Jingning County, Gansu Province). At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he migrated to Suiye City in Central Asia (near today’s Tokmak, northern Kyrgyzstan), where Li Bai was born. . When he was five years old, his family moved to Mianzhou Mingming County (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). When he was twenty years old, he left Sichuan alone and began to roam extensively, from Dongting to the Xiangjiang River in the south, to Wu and Yue in the east, and lived in Anlu (today's Anlu City, Hubei Province). He traveled around, hoping to make friends and meet celebrities, so that he could be recommended and climb to a high position to realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, nothing was achieved. He continued to travel north to Taiyuan and Chang'an, to the east to Qi and Lu, and settled in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). By this time, he had made friends with many celebrities, composed a large number of excellent poems, and his poems were famous all over the world. In the early years of Tianbao, he was recommended by the Taoist Wu Renjun. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned him to Beijing and ordered him to serve the Imperial Academy. Soon, due to the slander of the powerful, he was squeezed out of Beijing in the third or fourth year of Tianbao (744 or 745 AD). After that, he wandered around the Jiang and Huai areas, feeling extremely depressed.
In the winter of the fourteenth year of Tianbao (AD 755), Anlu Mountain rebelled. At this time, he was living in seclusion in Lushan Mountain. When Yong Wang Li Lin's army marched eastward, he invited Li Bai to come down the mountain and join the shogunate. Later, Li Lin rebelled against Su Zong and was eliminated. Li Bai was implicated and was sentenced to exile in Yelang (today's Guizhou Province). He was pardoned and released on the way, and traveled between Xunyang (today's Jiujiang, Jiangxi) and Xuancheng (today's Xuancheng, Anhui). Waiting places. In the first year of Baoying's reign (762 AD), Dai Zong died of illness in Dangtu County, Anhui.
Li Bai lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. He had the progressive ideal of "helping the common people" and "anli Yuan", and worked hard to realize this ideal throughout his life. His large number of poems not only reflected the prosperity of that era, but also exposed and criticized the dissoluteness and corruption of the ruling group, showing his positive spirit of contempt for the powerful, resisting the constraints of tradition, and pursuing freedom and ideals. In terms of art, his poems have novel imagination, strong emotions, magnificent artistic conception, and fresh and bright language. They form a bold and ultra-forward artistic style and reach the peak of positive romantic poetry art in ancient my country. There are more than 900 poems in existence, including "Collection of Li Taibai".
His poems are rich in imagination, strange in conception, powerful and magnificent in style, and he is a representative figure of romantic poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
(Detailed life) 1. He likes to be a chivalrous person and likes to be free and powerful
Li Bai was born in Suiye in the Western Regions in the first year of Chang'an of Wu Zetian (701 AD). When he was five years old, he settled with his family in Suiye. Qinglian Township in Changlong (now Jiangyou, Sichuan).
When Li Bai was young, he liked to be a knight, and he liked to be in control. The Mianzhou area where Changlong is located has been a place where Taoism has been active since the late Han Dynasty. Therefore, since Li Bai was a boy, he often went to Daitian Mountain to find Taoist priests in Taoist temples to discuss Taoist scriptures. Later, he lived in seclusion in Minshan Mountain with a hermit named Dong Yanzi, devoted himself to studying, and did not enter the city for many years. They raised many exotic birds in the mountains and forests where they lived. These beautiful and docile birds, because they are used to being raised, fly regularly to beg for food. They seem to understand people's language. With a call, they fly down from all over the steps and can even peck at grains from people's hands. Grain, not afraid at all. This incident was spread as an anecdote far and wide, and eventually the governor of Mianzhou went to the mountains to watch the birds eating. Seeing that they could command the movements of birds, the governor thought that they had Tao skills, so he wanted to recommend them to take the Tao exam. However, both of them politely refused. Zhao Rui, a famous political strategist at that time, was also a good friend of Li Bai. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716 AD), he wrote ten volumes of "The Long and Short Classics". Li Bai was only sixteen years old at that time. Zhao Rui's strategist-style work studied the similarities and differences of the Six Classics, analyzed the world situation, and emphasized the rise and fall of chaos, which aroused Li Bai's great interest. In the future, he was determined to make great achievements and loved to talk about the ways of kings and dominators. It was also influenced by this book.
Li Bai had three wives, one of whom was the granddaughter of Prime Minister Xu, surnamed Xu. The second, whose surname is unknown. The third granddaughter of the Prime Minister of Zong, whose surname is Zong. There is also a man named Liu. He has two sons and one daughter, one of whom was born to Xu. Son's name: Bo Qin, nickname "Ming Yue Nu"; daughter's name: Ping Yang; another son's name: Tian Tian, ??nickname "Po Li". The reason why Li Bai named his children this way is related to the fact that his family lived in Suiye. Zoroastrianism and Mingjiao were popular in West Asia and Central Asia at that time, worshiping heaven, earth, sun, moon, water and fire.
The first wife was married to the granddaughter of former prime minister Xu Weishi in Anlu, Hubei in 727 AD through the help of two friends Hu Ziyang and Ma Zhenggong. Got a son-in-law who stepped in. Since Li Bai had lived in his father-in-law's house for ten years after his marriage, the feeling of being under someone else's roof already made him very unhappy, and he had no time to think about other things. This was Li Bai's first marriage, and maybe he still treated it with a very responsible attitude. Judging from the fact that he had two sons, a boy and a girl, the sex life of both parties was still very harmonious.
The first lover, in 739 AD, 12 years after his first marriage and one year after the death of his first wife, Li Bai married a woman named Liu. In order to make the atmosphere more exciting, Li Bai married a woman named Liu. To make it easier, we can think about the beauty and figure of this woman. Li Bai took this woman to Anhui to buy a house, but they soon separated.
For his second wife, in 745 AD, Li Bai married a local woman in Rencheng, Shandong. At this time, Li Bai had just come out of the capital Chang'an, carrying a large bag of gold and silver treasures, and traveled all the way to Shangqiu, Henan with Du Fu and Gao Shi, where they stayed for a long time. After breaking up with him, Li Bai went to Mount Tai to obtain the Taoist Ceremony. Passing by Rencheng, he met this woman in loneliness. The two fell in love and immediately received their marriage certificate. Li Bai's wife gave birth to a son for him, and Li Bai bought a large amount of land in Yanzhou, Shandong. After that, during his wandering life, these lands were handed over to his wife. It can be seen that Li Bai had great trust in his wife. Unfortunately, this wife died five years after their marriage.
The third wife, in 750 AD, Li Bai met Zong, the granddaughter of Zong Chuke, the prime minister of Wu Zetian in Kaifeng, Henan. Speaking of their acquaintance, it was quite romantic. It was said that it was Li Baijiu. When I was drunk in Liangyuan, I became very interested in poetry, so I wrote the famous "Ode to Liangyuan" on the wall. After I finished writing, I probably found a corner to pee, then I picked up my long gown and walked away. Not long after leaving, Zong came here with his servant. After seeing this poem, he couldn't let it go for a long time. It happened that the cleaning staff of Liangyuan saw it and wanted to wipe it off immediately, but Zong asked not to wipe it off. But if the cleaning staff doesn't wipe it off, their wages will be deducted. Reluctantly, Zong was so impressed by this talented poem that he spent thousands of gold to buy the wall. So this story of "a thousand gold buys a wall" remains. In many historical records, this Zong family is described as a lady with both talents and appearance. Alas, I am envious. Moreover, the beauties of the Zong family are also loyal believers in Taoism. Well, the current wife should have the same revolutionary beliefs and literary moral sentiments as Li Bai. It should be regarded as Li Bai's first recorded love. Note that it is love. However, it is also possible that faith is too important, sometimes even more than love. In 761 AD, Zong went to Kuangshan to learn Taoism. As a result, Li Bai was alone again, and he never married again. After a man experienced unforgettable love, he would regard women in the world as nothing. However, due to the deep relationship between the two, Zong rescued Li Bai many times when he was wrongfully convicted. It is enough to get this girl as a wife.
2. Traveling far and wide with a sword
In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725 AD), Li Bai left Shu, "going to the country with a sword, saying goodbye to relatives and traveling far away". He took a boat out of the gorge along the river, and gradually went further and further away. The mountains of his hometown gradually disappeared and became unrecognizable. Only the water flowing out of the Three Gorges still followed him, pushing his boat forward, and taking him to a strange and distant place. Go to the city.
1. Fortunately meeting Sima Chengzhen in Jiangling: Li Bai did not expect to have an extraordinary meeting in Jiangling. He actually met Sima Chengzhen, a Taoist priest revered by three generations of emperors. Tiantai Taoist Sima Chengzhen not only learned a complete set of Taoist spells, but he was also good at writing seal script and his poems were as elegant as immortals. Xuanzong respected him very much. He once summoned him to the inner palace to ask for advice on Buddhist scriptures. He also built a balcony for him and sent his sister Princess Yuzhen to learn Taoism from him. Li Bai was naturally very happy to see this favored Taoist priest, and even sent his own poems for his review. Sima Chengzhen admired Li Bai's majestic appearance and extraordinary talents at first sight. When he read his poems and essays, he was even more amazed, praising him as "having an immortal spirit and a spirit that can travel to the eight extremes of the world." Because he saw that Li Bai not only had extraordinary appearance and bearing, but also had extraordinary talents and writings, and he was not obsessed with the honors and officials of the world. This was a talent he had not seen in the government and in the public sector for decades, so he used the highest Taoist Praise him with words of praise. This means that he has "immortal roots", that is, he has the innate factors to become an immortal. This is similar to He Zhizhang's later praise of him as an "immortal", which means that he is regarded as an extraordinary person. This is the general impression that Li Bai's demeanor and poetry style give people.
Li Bai was delighted by Sima Chengzhen's high evaluation. He is determined to pursue an eternal and immortal world such as "Wandering around the Eight Extremes of God". When he was excited, he wrote a great poem "Ode to the Dapeng Encountering a Rare Bird", using the Dapeng as a metaphor for itself and exaggerating the size and speed of the Dapeng. This is Li Bai's earliest famous article. From Jiangling, he began his journey of thousands of miles.
2. Friends buried in Dongting Li Bai went south from Jiangling, passed through Yueyang, and then went south, then he arrived at one of the destinations of his trip. But while boating in Dongting, an unfortunate thing happened. Wu Zhizhi, Li Bai's traveling companion from Shu, died of a sudden illness. Li Bai was so grief-stricken that he fell beside his friend and cried loudly, "all his tears were followed by blood." Because he cried so painfully, passersby shed tears when they heard him. Encountering such misfortunes on the journey, Li Bai had no choice but to temporarily bury Wu Guide at the Dongting Lake and continue his eastward journey, determined to carry his friend's bones after his southeast trip. Li Bai came to Lushan and wrote the popular poem "Looking at the Lushan Waterfall".
3. Journey to the South of the Yangtze River
Li Bai arrived at Jinling, the ancient capital of the Sixth Dynasty. The country here is majestic, the tiger is sitting on the dragon's plate, and the experience of the palaces of the Six Dynasties is vivid. This not only aroused many emotions in Li Bai, but also aroused his pride in the era in which he lived. He believed that the capital in the past was in a state of decline, and there was nothing to admire, and it was not as good as the peaceful scene that the current emperor ruled from the top, and the world was peaceful. Although Jinling's domineering power has disappeared, the children of Jinling received Li Bai affectionately.
When Li Bai bid farewell to Jinling, Wu Ji poured wine, and the children of Jinling greeted each other attentively, frequently raising glasses to encourage people to drink. The feeling of farewell flowed through people's hearts like a river flowing eastward, making it unforgettable. After Li Bai bid farewell to Jinling, he headed for Yangzhou from the river. Yangzhou was an international city at that time. Li Bai had never seen such a lively city before and spent some time with his fellow travelers. In midsummer, Li Bai and some young friends "tied their horses to hang under the willows, holding cups on the side of the road. They saw green water in the sky and green mountains in the sea." It was very pleasant. In the autumn, he fell ill in Huainan (where his governance was in Yangzhou). Lying ill in a foreign country, he had many thoughts. He lamented that his hope for success was slim, and he missed his hometown deeply. The only thing that could bring him some comfort were letters from friends far away.
After Li Bai recovered from his illness in Huainan, he went to Suzhou again. This is the place where King Wu Fu Chai and the beautiful lady Xi Shi sang and danced day and night. Li Bai felt nostalgic about the past and wrote an epic poem "Wu Qi Qu". This poem was later praised by He Zhizhang, saying that it "can make ghosts and gods weep". From this point of view, although Li Bai's Yuefu poems sometimes use old titles, they often have new ideas. The historical relics in Suzhou certainly aroused Li Bai's nostalgia for the past, and the beautiful and innocent Wu Ji and Yue Nu made Li Bai highly praised. At the foot of the Nitaluo Mountain in Huansha, Xishi in the past, Li Bai left beautiful sketches of the Yue girls on the Huansha Stone with his wonderful pen. Li Bai returned from Yuexi and returned to Jingmen. He stayed in Jingmen for three months. Although he was homesick, he had no achievements in his career and found it difficult to return home. Finally, he decided to wander again. First, he came to Dongting Lake and moved the bones of Wu Guanzhi to Jiangxia (now Wuchang, Hubei). He met Seng Xingrong in Jiangxia and learned about Meng Haoran's personality from him, so he went to Xiangyang to meet Meng Haoran, and thus wrote the famous five-rhythm poem "Gift to Meng Haoran". Soon, Li Bai arrived in Anlu, in Xiaoshou Mountain. The Taoist temple stayed. However, living in seclusion here was not a long-term solution. He still wanted to look for opportunities to advance in his official career. While living in seclusion in Shoushan, Li Bai used lobbying methods to make friends with officials and improve his reputation. Li Bai's literary talent was appreciated by Xu Yushi, the prime minister of Empress Wu, and he was recruited as his son-in-law. Li Bai and his wife Xu lived a happy married life under the Peach Blossom Rock in Baizhao Mountain, which is close to Xu's family. However, the beautiful married life did not weaken Li Bai's ambition to wander around in pursuit of success. Based on his wife's family in Anzhou, he traveled several times and got acquainted with some officials and noble princes. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734 AD), he paid an audience with Han Chaozong, the governor of Jingzhou and the governor of Xiangzhou.