Li Bai was the greatest poet of the Tang Dynasty. His poems have been popular for more than a thousand years and are still popular. He and the great poet Du Fu formed two peaks in the history of poetry. The two peaks faced each other and had a profound impact on the cultural inheritance and literary creation of later generations.
Li Bai's works are famous for their boldness. Those passionate and highly confident poems give us strong self-confidence. Many people regard them as aphorisms and mottos to inspire themselves to work hard.
The Dapeng rises with the wind in one day and soars ninety thousand miles
The Dapeng is an important image in Li Bai's poems and a symbol of his life ideals and noble personality. From his adolescence to his later years, he always compared himself with the Dapeng. Even in the "Death Song" he wrote when he died, he also wrote, "The Dapeng flies to vibrate the eight descendants, but the sky is unable to destroy it." Feeling sorry for the broken wings.
This image is full of freedom, confidence and power. Its prototype is the divine bird in Zhuangzi's "Xiaoyaoyou". "Its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is said that it can soar upward for ninety thousand miles, cut off the clouds, bear the blue sky, and then go to the south."
This poem by Li Bai comes from "Shang Li Yong". It is a work of his youth and is estimated to have been written around 720. At that time, Li Yong was the governor of Yuzhou, and Li Bai went to visit him when he visited Yuzhou.
During the conversation, Li Yong was a little disgusted with Li Bai's informality and unrestrained personality, and expressed his displeasure. Therefore, Li Bai wrote this poem to pay tribute to him when he was leaving. The poem showed Li Bai's high self-confidence and contempt for the powerful.
Looking up to the sky and laughing and going out, how can we be the people of Penghao
This poem comes from Li Bai's "The Children of Nanling Farewell Entering Beijing". Li Bai was originally a cheerful and bold character, and was praised by Tang Dynasty. The news of Xuanzong's summons made his confidence even more intense.
While waiting in Chang'an, Li Bai once visited He Zhizhang and Princess Yuzhen and asked them for help in recommending them. In 742 AD (the first year of Tianbao), Li Bai was forty-two years old. The opportunity finally came. He went to Beijing to serve as an imperial edict for Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Bai finally had the opportunity to realize his political ideals. He killed chickens and geese, prepared a sumptuous family dinner, and determined to celebrate well, then bid farewell to his children and embarked on a new journey. Li Bai smiled up to the sky and walked out of the house, full of confidence in his future, hoping that he would be able to do something great this time.
When the wind breaks through the waves, there will be times when the clouds and sails are sailing to help the sea
Li Bai was summoned to Beijing by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and served as a Hanlin waiting edict, that is, a literary attendant, at any time at the disposal of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. . We know that the three "Qing Ping Diao" poems about appreciating famous flowers and treating concubines were accomplished overnight by Li Bai after he was drunk.
But Li Bai had political ambitions. How could a literary attendant achieve such a goal? His own dissatisfaction, coupled with the exclusion of Gao Lishi and other dignitaries, in the third year of Tianbao, that is, in 744, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty rewarded Li Bai with gold, released him, and dismissed him.
This poem comes from "The Road Is Difficult, Part One" and was written when a friend set up a banquet for Li Bai's farewell trip. Li Bai was hit hard by this. He had no interest in drinking and eating. He looked around blankly and worried.
Where is the way forward?
But Li Bai still has a cheerful character after all. He hesitated for a while and then immediately cheered up