Li Bai was born in 701 (the first year of Chang'an), also known as Li Twelve, Li Hanlin?, Li Gongfeng, Li Shiyi, Shixian; his name is Taibai; he is also known as Qinglian Jushi and banished immortal; so He lived in the Tang Dynasty; his ethnic group is Han; he died in 762 (the first year of Baoying); his ancestral home was Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province); his death place was Dangtu County, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province; his burial place was at the western foot of Qingtu Mountain in Dangtu.
Main works: "Thoughts on a Quiet Night", "The Road to Shu is Difficult", "About to Drink", "Sleepwalking as Heavenly Mother Says Farewell" and "The Road is Difficult";
Main Achievements: Created Ancient Romance The great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty was hailed as the Immortal of Poetry by later generations, and was also called Li Du together with Du Fu. The other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, are called Little Li and Du. Du Fu and Li Bai are also called Big Li and Du. They were cheerful and generous people who loved drinking, writing poems, and making friends. Li Bai was deeply influenced by the thoughts of Huang Lao Liezhuang. There is a "Collection of Li Taibai" handed down to the world. Most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include "Looking at the Waterfall of Mount Lu", "The Road is Difficult", "The Road to Shu is Difficult", "The Wine Will Be Entered" ", "Liang Fu Yin", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many other songs. Song people have biographies of Li Bai's poems and poems (such as Wen Ying's "Xiangshan Wild Records", Volume 1). In terms of its pioneering significance and artistic achievements, Li Bai's poems enjoy an extremely high status;
The first year of Chang'an (701), his birthplace is generally believed to be Qinglian Township, Changlong (later changed to Changming to avoid Xuanzong's name) in Mianzhou (Brazil County), Jiannan Road, Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home is Tianshui, Gansu Province, and his family background and family are unknown;
In November of the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian passed away and Li Bai was five years old. He started reading in this year, "Shang'anzhou Pei Chang" "Historical Records" says: "Recite Liujia at the age of five. Liujia, a primary school literacy textbook in the Tang Dynasty, a long history, the second official of the state;
In the third year of Kaiyuan (715), Li Bai was fifteen years old and had already written many poems. First, he was praised and rewarded by some celebrities and began to engage in social activities. He also began to accept the influence of Taoist thought. He was good at swordsmanship and liked to be a knight. He was Nian Cen Shensheng;
In the sixth year of Kaiyuan (718), Li Bai was eighteen years old and lived in seclusion in Daitian Dakuang Mountain (in today's Jiangyou, Sichuan Province). County) study. Traveling to and from neighboring counties, he traveled to Jiangyou, Jiange, Zizhou (the state is governed in today's Sichuan Province) and other places, and gained a lot of experience and knowledge;
In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan (724), Li Bai's second At the age of fourteen, he left his hometown and embarked on a long journey, visiting Chengdu and Mount Emei, and then boating eastward to Yuzhou (today's Chongqing City);
In the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan (726), Li Bai At the age of twenty-six, he went to Yangzhou (now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province) in the spring. In the autumn, he was ill in Yangzhou. In winter, he left Yangzhou and traveled north to Ruzhou (now Linru County, Henan Province) to Anlu (now Anlu County, Hubei Province). He met Li Yong when passing through Chenzhou. Get acquainted with Meng Haoran;
In the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan (727), it was decreed that people with outstanding civil and military talents could recommend themselves to the court. In autumn, sixty-three states across the country suffered floods and seventeen states suffered from frost and drought. . Li Bai was twenty-seven years old and lived in Shoushan, Anlu. He married the granddaughter of the former prime minister Xu Yushi and moved to Anlu. In that year, Wang Changling became a Jinshi;
In the 16th year of Kaiyuan (728), Tubo After repeated invasions, Li Bai was twenty-eight years old. In early spring, he traveled to Jiangxia (now Wuhan City, Hubei Province) and met Meng Haoran there;
In the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan (730), Li Bai was thirty years old and spent the spring in Anlu, where he had visited many times before I went to see Pei Changshi of this state. Because he was slandered by others, he wrote a confession recently, but he was finally rejected. In early summer, I went to Chang'an to visit Prime Minister Zhang Shuo and met his son Zhang Bian. Princess Yuzhen (the imperial sister of Xuanzong) lived in Zhongnan Mountain. In the annex, he also visited other princes and ministers, but with no results. He visited Xingzhou (to the west of Chang'an) in late autumn and Fangzhou (to the north of Chang'an) in winter. At that time, Du Fu was nineteen years old and traveled to Jin (today's Shanxi Province). ; Gao Lishi decided that in October, Xuanzong came to Luoyang. Li Bai was thirty-one years old. He was poor and depressed in Chang'an. City (now Shangqiu County, Henan Province), in autumn, I visited Zhongyue, one of the five mountains in Pengshan Mountain (a famous mountain in Dengfeng County, Henan Province), where I fell in love with the mountain residence of my old friend Yuandan Qiu, and it seemed that I lived in seclusion;
In October of the 20th year of Kaiyuan (732), Xuanzong went on a patrol to the area north of Luoyang (today's Shanxi Province). He ordered local officials to recommend talented people in the area directly to the court wherever he visited. In November, he went to Taiyuan, the northern capital (the place where the Tang Dynasty was founded), to worship Houtu (the God of the Earth) and to grant amnesty to the world. In December, he returned to Luoyang. In that year, the number of households in the country was 7,861,236, and the population was 4,5431,265, which was the highest record in history. Li Bai was thirty years old. He had been in Luoyang since spring and summer, and got acquainted with Yuan Yan and Cui Chengfu. In autumn, he returned to Anlu from Luoyang.
Passing through Nanyang (now Nanyang City, Henan Province), he met Cui Zongzhi. In winter, Yuanyan went from Luoyang to Anlu for a visit. The two traveled to Suizhou (now Suixian County, Hubei Province) together. At the end of the year, they returned home to Anlu;
In the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan (735 AD), Xuanzong went hunting again. Li Bai happened to be traveling to the west, so he took the opportunity to present "The Great Hunting Fu", hoping to win Xuanzong's appreciation. His "Great Hunting Fu" was intended to With the great road to support the emperor, it shows the vastness of things in the world, while the holy dynasty gardens are wild and desolate. The land is vast and the situation is very different from that of the previous dynasties. It boasts that this dynasty is far superior to the Han dynasty, and at the end he preaches the secrets of Taoism. , in line with Xuanzong's mood of advocating Taoism at that time;
In that year, after Li Bai entered Chang'an, he met Wei Wei Zhang Qing, and through him he presented a poem to Princess Yuzhen. The last two sentences said when he entered the young chamber, the king When his mother met, he wished her to become a Taoist and become an immortal. From this, he got closer to the upper class of the ruling class step by step. Li Bai also met He Zhizhang in Chang'an this time. Li Bai went to Ziji Palace, met He Zhizhang there, and immediately came forward. He paid a visit and presented the poetry book in his sleeve. He Zhizhang admired "The Road to Shu is Difficult" and "Wuqi Qu". He Zhizhang was so surprised by Li Bai's magnificent poems and his unrestrained style that he actually said: "The public is not a human being." , isn’t it Taibai Star Spirit? He Zhizhang called him a banished immortal. Three years later, Li Bai left Chang'an with the sigh that it would be difficult to return because of the difficulty in traveling.