The second couplet of this poem "King of Chu" and "Guangling Peach" comes from the famous prose "Seven Hairs" written by Mei Cheng, a writer in the Han Dynasty. The article said that the king of Chu was ill and a guest from the State of Wu came to greet him. Wu Ke believes that the illness of the King of Chu is due to eating too well, wearing too warm clothes, living too comfortably and having too many social activities, which will endanger his life for a long time. So he told the king of Chu seven things to get his attention, and the sixth thing was to describe watching Guangling Tao.
Guanglingtao is actually a turbulent wave on the Yangtze River under the jurisdiction of Guangling County, including some sections of the Yangtze River facing Luchang Ancient Town. After listening to Wu Ke's description, the prince was scared out in a cold sweat and everything recovered. Li Bai used this allusion to illustrate that the current politics of the Tang Dynasty, just like the King of Chu, was terminally ill, and people like Wu Ke were needed to point out its roots and arouse the consciousness of the rulers, so as to fundamentally save it.
Li Bai was forced to leave Chang 'an and exile Yelang. He was able to get in touch with the people in his life, suffered political failures and setbacks, and suffered a painful blow mentally, which made him have a clear understanding of social problems. However, the reality that there is no way to serve the country and his ambition is difficult to pay makes him very helpless. Thanks to Wu Ke's account, the king of Chu recovered his health, but no one can change the status quo. In his calm quotations, Li Bai expressed profound thoughts and hopes.
About the author:
Li Bai (70 1 turn 762) is Taibai, whose name is violet. He claimed that his ancestral home was Ji Cheng in Longxi (now southwest of Jingning, Gansu), and his ancestral home was Suiyeju in the Western Regions at the end of Sui Dynasty (it was the capital of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, near tokmak in northern Kyrgyzstan). When I was young, I moved to Qinglian Township, Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan) with my father. Teenagers show their talents, write poems, read widely and are good at chivalry. From the age of 25, I have been wandering for a long time and experienced a lot of social life.
In 742 AD (the first year of Tianbao), he was called to visit the Hanlin in Chang 'an. The style of the article was famous for a while, which was appreciated by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, but it was not taken seriously politically and was destroyed by powerful people. Only one year later, he left Chang 'an. In 744 AD (Tianbao three years), he made friends with Du Fu in Luoyang. After the An Shi Rebellion broke out, he joined the Wang Yong shogunate Lilin in 756 AD, hoping to quell the rebellion. Due to the failure of Wang Yong Zheng Duo, Yelang was exiled (now Guizhou), but he was pardoned and returned to the East on his way.
In his later years, he drifted to the southeast and died in Dangtu (now Anhui). His poems are mainly lyrical, showing the arrogant spirit of contempt for powerful people, expressing sympathy for people's sufferings, being good at depicting natural scenery and expressing his love for the mountains and rivers of the motherland. The poetic style is bold and unconstrained, the imagination is rich, the language flows naturally and the melody is harmonious and changeable.
He is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk literature, myths and legends, which constitutes his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors. Li Bai is the most unique and greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan, and reached the peak of poetic art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He has the reputation of "poetic immortal" and is also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.