Li Bai has poems that comment on reality. Chang'an three years (forty-two to forty-five years old). In Renwu, the first year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (AD 742), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty finally issued an imperial edict to go to Chang'an due to Wu Jun's recommendation. "Look up to the sky and go out laughing. How can we be from Penghao?" When He Zhizhang saw him, he sighed and called him "an immortal", which made his name famous in both the government and the public. However, Tang Xuanzong only used him to embellish peace, so he felt that his political ideals were shattered. "Praising the master of the Nine Levels of Ten Thousand Vehicles, and joking about the virtuous people in the red and green waves." His arrogant style of contempt for the emperor and the powerful was finally tolerated by others, so he came out of the mountain again. "Fifty years ago, he came out of Xijing" and three years in the Han Dynasty made him realize the decadence of the ruling delegation and the darkness of real politics, so he began to write some poems that expressed his anger and criticized reality.
There are also those with a rebellious spirit. The period of wandering again (forty-five to fifty-five years old). "Once I went to the capital, I stayed in Liangyuan for ten years." Bai left the capital and went to Luo, where he met Du Fu and then to Bianzhou. They met in Gaoyang and the three of them traveled together in the Liang and Song Dynasties. "Drunk to sleep in autumn, let's walk hand in hand with each other." Li Du forged a profound friendship. During this period, he "returned with no property and made trouble like a floating leaf", and his life was very embarrassing. And because of the increasingly dark political situation during the Tianbao period, he was also very sad and angry: "Destroy the tiger in the threshold, restrain the eagle in the trap", but he believed that his "talent can still be relied on, and he is worthy of being a hero in the world", so he exposed the reality in his works. There are more and more works, and the spirit of resistance becomes stronger and stronger, becoming a prominent feature of his creations in this period.
Then there is the obvious romanticism. Ten unfortunate years (from age fifty-five to death). When Anshi chaos broke out, he hid in Lushan Mountain. King Yong Lin raised an army, passed Xunyang, and made him the shogunate. Later, he was imprisoned because of Lin and was exiled to Yelang. "I have never shed tears in my life, but I will cry endlessly here." On the way, I met Li Yangbing, who was ordered to be pardoned. Li Guangbi challenged Shi Chaoyi, who asked him to kill the enemy. During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai's poems, like Du Fu's, were regarded as the embodiment of patriotism. In the 14th year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (755 AD), the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Li Bai was living in seclusion in Xuancheng (now Xuancheng, Anhui) and Lushan. At that time, Xuanzong appointed his 16th son Yong Wang as the envoy of Shannan East Road, Lingnan, Qianzhong and Jiangnan West Road and the governor of Jiangling, responsible for protecting and managing the central area of ????the Yangtze River. With the desire to eliminate the rebellion and restore national unity, Li Bai participated in the work of King Yong's shogunate, which led his troops eastward from Jiangling. Unexpectedly, King Yong disobeyed Suzong's orders and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to expand his power. As a result, Suzong sent troops to eliminate him. Li Bai was also convicted and sent to Xunyang Prison (today's Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and was soon exiled to Yelang (today's Tongzi, Guizhou). ). Fortunately, he encountered amnesty on the way and returned eastward. He was fifty-nine years old. Li Bai lived in the south of the Yangtze River in his later years. When he was sixty-one years old, he heard that Lieutenant Li Guangbi was leading an army out of Linhuai to attack the Anshi rebels. He happily went north to join the army to kill the enemy. However, he turned back due to illness on the way and ended up in Dangtu (now part of Anhui) the following year. His uncle, the county magistrate Li Yangbing, died at his residence at the age of sixty-one. Li Bai's representative works of this period, before the An-Shi Rebellion, include "Sleepwalking in the Heavenly Mother's Farewell", "Battle in the South of the City", "Reply to the King Drinking Alone and Feelings on a Twelve Cold Nights", "Ancient Style? Feathers Like Shooting Stars", "About to Enter the Wine" , "Traveling to the North Wind", "Farewell to the Far Side", "Farewell to School Secretary Shu Yun at Xie □ Tower in Xuanzhou", etc. After the Anshi Rebellion, there were "Ancient Wind? Going West to Lianhua Mountain", "Song of King Yong's Tour to the East", "Ballads of Lushan Mountain" "Lu Shiyu Xuzhou" and so on. Li Bai was called the "Immortal of Poetry" by later generations and occupied an important position in the history of Chinese literature.