Li Bai's ancestral home was in Ji Cheng, Longxi (now Qin Andong, Gansu). He was born in the first year of Wu Zetian's Chang 'an (AD 70 1 year) and broken leaves (now near tokmak, Kyrgyzstan). According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, he is the ninth grandson of Emperor Liang, and he is actually the same clan as the kings. When he was a child, Li Bai moved to Qinglian Township, Governor Long (now Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province) with his father Li Ke. When he was young, he began to travel around China. Later, Li Bai presented the Hanlin [/ur] in the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 742). It was his unruly personality that determined that he could not be tolerated by the powerful, so he left Chang 'an in less than two years.
middle age
Later, he met Du Fu, another famous poet in China in the Tang Dynasty, and became good friends. After the An Shi Rebellion broke out, in February 65438 +756, Li Bai was invited as Wang Yong's assistant to quell the rebellion. After Wang Yong angered Tang Suzong and was killed, Li Bai was also found guilty and imprisoned. Soon after, he was exiled to Yelang (now Tongzi, Guizhou). He was pardoned in exile at the age of 59.
old age
Li Bai roamed the south of the Yangtze River in his later years. At the age of 6 1, I heard that Qiu Li Guangbi led a great army to crusade against Anshi rebels, so he went north to join the army with Li Guangbi to kill the enemy, but turned back because of illness. The following year, Li Bai went to his uncle Li, who was then the county magistrate of Dangtu (now Anhui). In June of the same year, Li Bai died in his apartment at the age of 62.
works
Li Bai wrote a large number of poems in his life, and more than 900 poems have been handed down to this day. His poetry creation involves a wide range of China classical poetry themes, and there are many excellent works on many themes. His favorite genres are mainly ancient poems, including ancient poems and Yuefu poems, but there are also many swan songs in modern poetry genres such as metrical poems and quatrains. Two words that were not popular in the Tang Dynasty are considered to be Li Bai's works, namely, Bodhisattva Man and Qin Yi 'e, which were called "the ancestor of one hundred generations of lyrics and songs" by Huang Sheng in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are also a few people who suspect that Li Bai did not do it.
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According to Old Tang Book, Li Bai was born in Shandong and his father was Ren Chengwei. Li Bai showed extraordinary talent in his youth. He had lofty aspirations and a detached heart. He and Confucius, Han Mian, Pei Zheng, Zhang Shuming, Tao Mian and other middle school students in Shandong Province hid in Culai Mountain, singing and drinking, and the time number was "Zhuxi Liufu".
It is also recorded in the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty that although Li Bai was pardoned from exile, he died of drunkenness in Xuancheng due to excessive drinking on the way ("Drinking too much, drunk to death in Xuancheng").