Li Bai's ancestral home is Ji Cheng (now Jingning County, Gansu Province). At the end of Sui Dynasty, Li Bai was born here because he fled chaos and moved to Broken Leaf City in Central Asia (now near tokmak in northern Kyrgyzstan). He spent most of his life roaming. At the age of five, his family moved to Zhangming County, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan). At the age of twenty, he left Sichuan alone and began to wander widely. It is located in Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and wuyue in the east (now Anlu City, Hubei Province). He traveled around, hoping to make friends and pay homage to celebrities, so as to get an introduction, climb high in one fell swoop and realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, I have accomplished nothing. Continue to go north to Taiyuan and Chang 'an, east to Qi and Lu, and live in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). At this time, he has made many celebrities and created a lot of excellent poems, which are famous all over the world. In the early years of Tianbao, on the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty called him to Beijing and ordered him to worship the Hanlin. Soon, due to the slanderers of powerful people, Yu Tianbao was expelled from Beijing in 34 (AD 744 or 745). Since then, he has been wandering in Jiang and Huai, and his thoughts are extremely boring.
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Li Bai's life can be said to be lofty and ambitious. He is conceited that he has the ability to help the world and govern the country. However, the world finally recognized only his poems, which also made him feel depressed.
Li Bai's early travel experience made his poems romantic, magnificent and unrestrained, full of longing for the future and lofty sentiments. During this period, his poems were based on magnificent rivers and mountains and travel experiences, and his writing was light and elegant, magnificent and gorgeous, which was called "fallen immortals" and fully praised his poems and talents.
However, after he became an official, he could not show his ambition, but only served as an imperial scholar of the emperor. In addition, he was too conceited, unwilling to cling to powerful people, and eventually his career was bumpy, which also made his poems full of injustice and contempt for powerful people, such as "Oh, how can I bow and scrape to those high-ranking officials whose sincere faces will never be seen!" At this time, his poems are more about the lives and personal wishes of ordinary people.