In China's cultural history, literary history and art history, Li Bai is an unavoidable code, and his achievements are the dreams of countless people.
But these, if in Li Bai's own eyes, can't be said to be worthless, at least they are not very worthy goals, but they just happen naturally with his life. Li Bai's own dream is to become a politician and leave a wonderful mark in the official history. This is his lifelong dream.
The tear between reality and ideal has caused the ups and downs of Li Bai's life, and to some extent, it may also be one of the factors that made him a poet.
His fate reflects several distinct faces.
Li Bai is a failed scholar. To some extent, according to the standards at that time, he was not even a scholar. Because of his family's status as a businessman, he couldn't take the imperial examination, and he couldn't rely on this most formal route to enter politics and officialdom. He could only seek ways to be recommended by senior officials. He has held the highest post, and he is an empty post dedicated to the Hanlin, that is, he praised Tang Xuanzong's literary attendants with words and poems, which is far from his politician's dream. When he took refuge in Yong Wang Li Lin, he didn't even have an official position, but was dragged into exile and came to the end of his life.
Li Bai is an unsuccessful monk. Li Bai practiced monasticism all his life, and succeeded in becoming a full-fledged Taoist through the ceremony of conferring Taoism. Supposedly, he should be very be adept at to Taoist thought, and he also tried to make an alchemy for immortality, but he never practiced the Taoist concept of "doing nothing and doing everything". Although Taoism's thought of practicing Laozi is not absolutely consistent, the practice of being born in seclusion is the same. Li Bai, however, can't put down a word "merit" and a word "fame" all his life, hoping to prove that his real goal of joining the WTO is to be born with a free and easy attitude of "doing things and brushing off clothes, hiding deep in fame". Pursuing the goal of being born in the form of joining the WTO, Li Bai has achieved results on the road of cultivation, but has no achievements.
Li Bai is a great artist. Whether future generations say "Li Du" or "Li Du Bai", Li Bai comes first, which is the ranking in the minds of future generations. Li Bai's achievements in Tang poetry can't be overstated. "As soon as the embroidery is spit out, it will be half a prosperous Tang dynasty." Without Li Bai's Tang poetry, it is unimaginable. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, when poets and stars grabbed a lot and wonderful chapters emerged one after another, Li Bai's position was not concealed, but a "lonely moon wheel" surrounded by stars, and no one could compete.
Li Bai is a disastrous strategist. Li Bai has been dreaming of a strategist all his life, which may also include the dreams of several hundred percent of chivalrous people. This has a deep relationship with his communication and study with Zhao Qi in his youth. The Long and Short Classics written by Zhao Qi had a profound influence on Li Bai. The warring states and the strategists fought each other, making Li Bai have a simple, romantic and even naive view of politics. He always imagined himself as a superman who saved the day, a strategist who prospered the country and lost the country, and a chivalrous man who sealed his throat with a sword. However, times have changed, and a centralized empire needs a prudent bureaucrat, not a ranger. Times have not given Li Bai the opportunity to be a "big beam city", and he has not had the chic of "doing things and brushing clothes". This is the eternal pain in Li Bai's heart. His stupidity of taking refuge in the eternal king Li Lin in his late teens has even shattered this dream, and he can't scoop it up with a spoon.
Li Bai is torn in such a different identity, and this tearing pain gives him inspiration that ordinary people can't capture, so that he can write one famous article after another.
Li Bai didn't realize his dream, and Datang lost an excellent (maybe) official. It seems that no one regrets or cares. Therefore, the world has got a talented poet, and the country is fortunate to be a poet, and the poet is unfortunate to be a reader. We regret that Li Bai didn't realize his dream, and we are glad that Li Bai didn't realize his dream!