1. Li Bai's Early Works
Li Bai's early works have a wide range of themes, describing landscapes, rural life and personal feelings. These works, including Silent Night Thinking and Into the Wine, are famous for their fresh and natural style.
2. Li Bai's landscape poems
In Li Bai's landscape poems, he described the beauty of nature with bold and magnificent brushstrokes. His masterpieces include "Climbing the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing" and "Looking at Lushan Waterfall", which show Li Bai's love for nature and his pursuit of transcending the world.
3. Li Bai's homesick poems
Li Bai's nostalgic poems often express his praise and reflection on the glory of the past by recalling history and telling heroic deeds. Among them, the mountains cover the day, four bright moons and the first part show his profound feelings about historical vicissitudes and personnel changes.
4. Li Bai's drinking poems
Li Bai is famous for his boldness, and his drinking poems reflect his open-minded, cheerful and carefree attitude towards life. In his works, such as Difficult Walking Four and Soliciting the Bright Moon Four, he expressed his disdain for secular bondage and his pursuit of freedom by drinking and having fun.
5. Li Bai's patriotic poems
In some of his works, Li Bai expressed his deep affection for the motherland and his concern for the current situation. "Since God has given talents, let them be employed!" In "Into the Wine" and "Poems of Autumn Wind", he expressed his expectation of the country's prosperity and showed his love for the country and his spirit of worrying about the country and the people.
6. Li Bai's fairy poems
Li Bai's poems about Xian Xia brought people into a fantastic world. He created an artistic conception beyond reality by depicting the images of immortals, fairyland and immortals. His works, such as Dan Qing's ode to beginning of spring and Wang Lushan Waterfall, show his yearning for the beauty of fairyland and his pursuit of eternal existence.
7. Li Bai's boldness and pursuit
Generally speaking, Li Bai's poetic style is mainly bold and unconstrained, showing the characteristics of being informal and pursuing freedom. His works incorporate thoughts on nature, history, life and other themes, which makes his poems have depth and breadth.
As one of China's ancient cultural treasures, Li Bai's works were not only widely praised at that time, but also recited and revered by people today. His poems, with their unique artistic style and outstanding creative talents, have become the treasures of ancient China literature and have had a far-reaching impact on later poets.