I was overjoyed to type a poem by Li Bai.

Li Bai, a great poet, has an important position in the history of China literature. He wrote many magnificent and romantic poems in his life and was praised as a poet. His poetry marks the highest achievement of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His poems are still popular today and are loved by modern people. However, Li Bai, who is knowledgeable and versatile, has never been an official in his life. Why? Some articles think that Li Bai is generous and dissolute by nature, and likes to travel around without restraint. He disdains official career and is unwilling to be an official. Is that really the case? According to the analysis of various historical materials about Li Bai's life, this is not the case. Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with prosperous economy, enlightened politics and developed culture, and was called the prosperous Tang Dynasty by later generations. Of course, Li Bai lived in the late Tang Dynasty. With the Anshi Rebellion in Li Bai's later years, the Tang Dynasty gradually declined. Living in such a peaceful and prosperous era, most scholars hope to make achievements in politics and worship their ancestors. I think Li Bai's political ambition also has "ambition", which is not as different as some modern commentary articles say. In this regard, I want to make some analysis and discussion based on my superficial and amateur research on Li Bai. Li Bai spent most of his life traveling. During his roaming, he wrote many excellent poems. So, is the ideal pursued by Li Bai just to become a great poet? Is the purpose of his trip purely for traveling, making friends and writing poems, and nothing else? A large number of facts have proved that it is not that simple. Li Bai has great ambitions since childhood. In his own words, he is ambitious in all directions. The so-called ambition of the quartet is actually the ambition of a gentleman. Being able to "rule the country and level the world" is actually the ambition of the prime minister. So Li Bai left Sichuan at the age of 25. One of the important purposes of the so-called "serving the country with a sword and leaving your loved ones to travel far away" is to make yourself proud of your career. This is also the reason why he wrote letters of recommendation along the way, and all he met along the way were top leaders or very important officials in various places. The friends he made are also people with connections in officialdom. All these prove that Li Bai's roaming has a direct and distinct political purpose. Li Bai's choice of marriage also clings to the lower class. In people's impression, Li Bai is a romantic, passionate, floating and uncontested fireworks. In fact, Li Bai's marriage view is similar to that of other intellectuals in the Tang Dynasty, and he should marry a noble family. Therefore, Li Bai's two formal marriages and the object of marriage are also considered in this way. For example, his first wife, Xu Shi, was the granddaughter of Xu, the prime minister of Wu Zetian. Of course, Xu died as early as when Li Bai got married, but this does not affect the fact that the Xu family still holds a lot of official power. The object of the second marriage was the Zongjia family, and her grandfather was another prime minister in the period of Wu Zetian, a treacherous court official in Zongchuke. But for Li Bai, it doesn't matter whether Zongchuk is a traitor or not. What matters is whether the woman's family has official connections and money relations. It is really surprising that Li Bai's consideration of marriage is so realistic. But what is even more surprising is that Li Bai's two marriages were adopted by her husband's family, which was very shameful in the upper class at that time. I think this rare upside-down door is mainly due to political resources, even if there are economic considerations. Being a member of the powerful family is particularly important for Li Bai, which will help him to enter the official career in the future. In ancient China, it was popular that "learning to be excellent is to be an official". The most formal way to enter the official career is naturally the imperial examination. Du Fu and Li Bai, contemporaries, took part in the imperial examinations. Although he failed, he did it. Some of Li Bai's close friends, such as Cen Can, Gao Shi and other famous poets, all had the experience of imperial examination. But Li Bai never took the imperial examination. Some people think that Li Bai is arrogant and unwilling to condescend to cope with a proper exam, and accordingly think that Li Bai is unwilling to be an official. I feel that this statement lacks strong evidence and is far-fetched. Li Bai's poems and any written materials handed down about Li Bai did not reflect that Li Bai opposed or hated the imperial examination. On the contrary, Li Bai made friends with bureaucrats and climbed to power, but there were many examples of self-recommendation. However, in the atmosphere of values at that time, it is really incomprehensible and unreasonable for a scholar with quick thinking, profound writing skills and top talent like Li Bai to fall in love with the official dignitaries, but not take the imperial examination and angrily enter the official career. Perhaps this is the basis for some people to misjudge Li Bai's disdain for scientific research and unwillingness to be an official. Then why is Li Bai so abnormal and has no experience in imperial examinations? I agree with another guess: unqualified. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty had multiple regulations on the identity and family background of candidates, except that women were not allowed to take the examination in previous dynasties, such as businessmen, businessmen's sons, people with criminal records and rebellious records. So I think Li Bai didn't take the imperial examination, not because he didn't want to, but because he was restricted by one or several aspects of the imperial examination system at that time, because he was not qualified to take the imperial examination. There are at least two considerations for Li Bai's disqualification: First, Li Bai's ancestors originally lived in Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province, which was then Chang 'an. Because his ancestors broke the law, he was exiled to the border area of Broken Leaf City at that time (near tokmak, east of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan). When he arrived at his father, he sneaked back to Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province. We say "sneaking back" because according to the existing historical records, Li Bai's father went back to the mainland without official approval, but should have sneaked back against his orders. Second, Li Bai's father has no salary, and Li Bai has a rich family since childhood. Li Bai once described the experience of traveling eastward to Yangzhou in his youth, saying: "In less than a year, the journey eastward was scattered by 300,000 people. There are several sons who are poor and I have learned from them. " Of course, Li Bai is expressing his generosity and wealth. But from this, we have reason to think that Li Bai's father is a wealthy businessman. With these two points, it is not surprising that Li Bai has never been in the examination room since he was a child. Li Bai has been keen on roaming away from home since his youth. With the above analysis, he can't simply look at it, but should analyze and understand it from two aspects. Of course, one aspect is his character, unrestrained and bohemian. He loves the majestic mountains and rivers of nature, drinks and sings poems in the magnificent artistic conception, and expresses his lofty sentiments. On the other hand, I hope that by making friends with upper-class people and paying homage to celebrities and dignitaries, I can introduce myself and get a high position in one fell swoop. When Li Bai missed the scientific examination, in order to realize his political ideal and ambition, he found another way and made a detour to be an official. I think this analysis and understanding of Li Bai's vagrancy not only conforms to the thinking logic of intellectuals' values at that time, but also conforms to Li Bai's literary talent, personality and what he has done all his life. Facts have proved that Li Bai has traveled around the world for more than ten years with such feelings. Although he suffered many setbacks, he finally gained something because of his poetic title and numerous official friends. Li Bai has a good friend named Yuan Danqiu, a famous Taoist in the Tang Dynasty. He is closely related to Princess Yu Zhen, the younger sister of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty who advocated Taoism. Yuan Danqiu recommended Li Bai to Tang Xuanzong through Princess Yu Zhen. Tang Xuanzong read Li Bai's poems and poems and appreciated them very much. In this way, when Li Bai was 42 years old, he finally received a letter from Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, which ushered in the first light in his political life. Li Bai was overjoyed. He proudly wrote in his poem: "Going out to laugh in the sky, is our generation Artemisia?" In this way, Li Bai entered the Imperial Academy and became an academician of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Every time Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had an important event such as a banquet or outing, he ordered Li Bai's attendants to make use of his agile poetic talent to write poems on the spot. However, although he accompanied the emperor and held a high position, he could also drink and write poems, but he did not have any administrative power. This is far from Li Bai's original political ideal of benefiting the people and ensuring the country. At that time, besides imperial academy, there was imperial academy. Although Hanlin College is only two words more than Hanlin College, there are essential differences between them. What institution is the Hanlin Academy? In today's words, it is equivalent to the Royal Art Troupe, which has concentrated all kinds of talents. The emperor was happy and drew a picture as a letter. Write a sentence, the book is waiting for a letter; Let's play a game of chess, which is waiting for a letter and so on. Li Baidang's poem "Waiting for a Letter" holds the highest position among all waiting for a letter, and it is closely related to politics. Hanlin bachelor's college is different. Those who entered Hanlin College were responsible for drafting imperial edicts for the emperor, and they played the role of aides and political advisers to the emperor. A person who becomes a bachelor of Hanlin may become a prime minister. Li Bai was ambitious and eager to be reused by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, but he stayed in imperial academy for three years and never got it. In desperation, Li Bai often used wine to drown his sorrows, decadent and depressed, coupled with the exclusion and slander of his colleagues, and was finally "paid back" by Tang Xuanzong. In fact, it is a more decent "exile." Did Li Bai leave Chang 'an because Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty didn't understand talents, or did Li Bai really have no political talent to run the country and keep the country safe? First of all, let's start with Li Bai's Chao Zhao. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was very devout to Taoism, so he summoned Li Bai to the court, not because he was a politician, but because he was a Taoist priest and a famous poet and scholar. So I put him in the academician courtyard, not the academician courtyard. Secondly, Tang Xuanzong ascended the throne at the age of 28. By the time he was in his fifties, he had been in power for more than twenty years, experienced many political struggles and created his prosperous new century. He is a wise monarch with political foresight. After three years with Li Bai, Tang Xuanzong should still be able to judge people accurately. If Li Bai really has high political talent and political strategy, I don't think Tang Xuanzong will not use him. Li Bai's political naivety can also be seen from another major event in his life. In the 14th year of Tang Tianbao, in 755 AD, An Lushan, who was also the envoy of Fanyang, Pinglu and Donghe, sent troops to Fanyang, and the famous Anshi Rebellion broke out in history. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty fled to Sichuan and appointed Prince Hengli as the supreme commander of the northern theater to deal with the Anshi rebellion in the north and recover the "two capitals"-Chang 'an and Luoyang. His other prince, Wang Yong Lilin, was appointed as the supreme commander of the southern war zone. In fact, he is the role of the general reserve team, responsible for hoarding food, grass and property and recruiting. At that time, there was chaos in the Tang Dynasty. Prince Hengli took advantage of the chaos to seize power and became emperor on his own. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, who was far away in Sichuan, was regarded as the father of the emperor. Tang Xuanzong accepted this fact helplessly. Hengli became the emperor. In order to eliminate the threat of Emperor Yongli Li Lin, he ordered Li Lin to hand over the army and return to Sichuan to accompany Emperor Taizong. However, Wang Yong Li Lin ignored Hengli's orders and continued to take his troops along the Yangtze River to Jinling (now Nanjing). Passing through Lushan Mountain, I heard that Li Bai lived in seclusion here, so I sent someone to invite Li Bai out of the mountain. As a matter of fact, the dispute between Li Lin and Hengli, anyone with political mind knows what will happen. Because although Hengli robbed the class, he was the legal heir to the throne, and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had long accepted taking a back seat as the emperor's father. Li Lin's disobedience at that time, like An and Shi, was also a rebellious act, which was not accepted by the court and the world. In addition, Hengli has a strong regular army, which is far stronger than Li Lin. No one with brains will go to Li Lin's muddy water. But Li Bai was just depressed for a long time, and now the opportunity has finally come. He is very excited. Despite his wife's dissuasion, he joined Li Lin's army in Wang Yong. It can be seen from this that Li Bai has no political mind, and he lacks clear judgment. The match between lin li and Hengli lasted only three months and was eliminated by Hengli. Li Lin himself was killed, and everyone in Li Lin's army became traitors. Li Bai was naturally involved and was put in prison. Li Bai's family ran around and were sentenced to exile to avoid death. In 759 AD, when Li Bai was exiled through Wushan, due to the drought in Guanzhong, the court announced an amnesty, which made Li Bai lucky to regain his freedom. After his release, Li Bai has not given up his political ambitions, and he is still active in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Jinling and Xuancheng. The main purpose is to seek new political opportunities. When he heard that Li Guangbi had marched into Sihong, Jiangsu Province, and was recruiting troops in the north to resist the remnants of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai thought that he was not far from Jinling, which was a good opportunity to join the army and serve the country, so he rushed to Jinling with his sword. Unfortunately, Li Bai fell ill on the way to join the army and was forced to return to Dangtu (now dangtu county, Maanshan City, Anhui Province) to go to his uncle dangtu county to make Li. Soon Li Bai died in Dangtu at the age of 6 1. From the above analysis, we can conclude that, influenced by social ideology at that time, Li Bai, as an intellectual, shared the same value orientation as most intellectuals in society, and his ideal of being an official in politics and developing his personal political ambitions was not divorced from the world, nor did he have a particularly lofty ideological realm. Moreover, Li Bai prides himself on his outstanding talent, pursues a particularly high political position, and has a particularly strong desire for official positions. He has been busy all his life to be an official, persevering and persevering. However, Li Bai thinks he is a super-class politician, but in fact he doesn't understand politics at all. He doesn't understand the rules of the game in officialdom and disdains to cheat the world and steal fame in officialdom. He is a poet who lives completely in a dream. Once he wakes up, he will only be disappointed. His unfortunate and bleak ending is that he has set a wrong position for himself, and it is the official-oriented thought of "learning to be excellent and being an official" that has harmed him. I regret the bumpy life and ill-fated fate of the previous generation of Tianjiao in the poetry circle.