Li Bai (70 1-762), whose word is Taibai, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. He said that his ancestral home was Ji Cheng in Longxi (now Qin 'an, Gansu), and he was a descendant of Han Fei's general Li Guang. After Li Yong, the military king of Xiliang, he was the same clan as the royal family of Li Tang.
Li Bai was an outstanding romantic poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and was known as "Poet Fairy", "Poet Knight", "Brewmaster" and "Immortal". Also known as Du Fu, he was praised as "Heaven Fairy" and "Li Zhongxian". Li Bai's works are rich in imagination, romantic and unrestrained, unique in artistic conception and brilliant, and his artistic achievements in poetry are known as the peak of China's romantic poetry. His poems were included in The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty (Volume 16 1 to 185), and Li Taibai Collection was handed down from generation to generation.
Li Bai's literary achievements
In Li Bai's poems, imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques are often used comprehensively to produce magical brilliance and magnificent artistic conception, which is the reason why Li Bai's romantic poems give people heroic and unrestrained, elegant and immortal. Li Bai's poems and songs had a far-reaching influence on later generations. Han Yu, Meng Jiao and Li He in the middle Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, Gao Qi, Yang Shen and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poems.
Li Bai has the highest achievements in Yuefu, Gexing and Jueju. His songs completely broke all the inherent forms of poetry creation, no one relied on them, and his brushwork was diverse, reaching the magical realm of unpredictability and swaying. Li Bai's quatrains are natural and lively, elegant and chic, and can express endless feelings in concise and lively language. Among the poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Wonders, while Wang Changling and others wrote the Seven Wonders well. Li Bai is the only one who is good at both the Five Odds and the Seven Odds.