Du Fu actually predicted the death of Li Bai in his poem! Li Bai may drown.

Li Bai, whose word is Taibai, is the most outstanding poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and another great romantic poet after Qu Yuan in the history of China literature. He is called "Poet Fairy". He went through difficult years and complicated thoughts. He is not only a talented poet, but also has the temperament of a ranger, an assassin, a hermit, a Taoist and a counselor. Confucianism, Taoism and chivalry are all embodied in him. "Li Bai left more than 900 poems to later generations. These wonderful poems show his mental journey all his life, and they are artistic portraiture of social reality and spiritual life in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai's poems and songs have a far-reaching influence on later generations. Han Yu, Meng Jiao and Li He in Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji in Song Dynasty, Gao Qi, Yang Shen and Gong Zizhen in Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poems. However, the cause of death of such a talented and famous poet has left great controversy for future generations.

The first view, which is generally accepted by scholars, holds that Li Bai died of illness. This view holds that when Li Guangbi Dongzhen was near the Huaihe River, Li Bai ignored the age of 6 1 and went to kill the enemy when he heard the news. He hoped to do his best to save the country from peril in his later years. He returned halfway due to illness. The following year, he died of illness in Dangtu county magistrate and Li, the most famous seal writer in Tang Dynasty. Li Bai's uncle in Li also wrote in Preface to Selected Poems and Cottage Collection: "I don't like to try string songs in Dangtu. Don't abandon me in your spare time. Help each other in the same boat and take care of each other When there is danger, it is a time of urgent need. You have thousands of manuscripts, gloves are not repaired, and a small book is given to you on the pillow. " Li Hua's Preface to the Epitaph of Hanlin Bachelor Li Jun in the Tang Dynasty said: "Ancient Shu is in the southeast, and there is the tomb of Li Bai, a Tang Dynasty scholar. He is sixty-two years old and occasionally has a farewell song. Twenty-nine years after Li Bai's death, Liu Yuzhen wrote Li Junyuan, a bachelor of Hanlin in Tang Dynasty, in six years. "Your surname is Bai," he added. "The imperial edict of Tianbao has just returned to the mountain. I swam here occasionally and finally died because I was buried here. White knows a gentleman by poetry. If you throw it away, the wasteland will be destroyed and you can't stop worrying. "After the death of Li Bai 100 years, the famous scholar Pi Rixiu once said in seven love poems that' when he was threatened by corruption, he was drunk to the extreme'. The so-called "acute illness", "dying song" and "death" in ancient literature clearly tell people that Li Bai died of illness.

Another view is that Li Bai did not die of illness, but drowned after being drunk. People who hold this view think that Li's Preface to the Cottage Collection says that he is in a hurry, Liu's says that he is well, and Fan's Preface to Li's Epitaph says that he died here, but they say nothing about it. The author who wrote the preface and tombstone for his anthology never mentioned it, but more than one hundred years later, a "threat of decay" suddenly appeared in Pi Rixiu's seven love poems, which obviously deserves our suspicion.

Li Bai was called "drunk fairy" because he was addicted to alcohol all his life. Many of his works are also named after wine. For example, "I will enter the new book online wine" has "cook a sheep, kill a cow, sharpen my appetite, let me, three hundred bowls, take a big drink!" There is a saying called "Laugh till you get as drunk as a fiddler, and have fun all your life". There is a saying that "four people talk a lot, a thousand a day". And "I opened my face and drank wine, and suddenly I was drunk." Third: "When you are drunk, you will lose your world, but you will fall asleep alone. I don't know if I have my body. This is the most enjoyable thing. "

Li Bai's death is probably related to wine. The Kings of the Five Dynasties recorded in "Song of Giving Jiang Yang Slaughter Land": "I swam in the quarrying river in my palace robe and was complacent, and died because I was drunk and caught the moon. This view holds that Li Bai was drunk and drowned. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Mei's poem "History of Liu Du" put it most clearly: "When you are drunk, you love the bottom of the river and turn your hands over the river. It is said that Li Bai was drunk and teased the moon shadow in the river with his hand on the boat, turned over and drowned. Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, also said: "There are a sea of people looking for Li Bai and painting in the world."

So, Li Bai may not have drowned as these people recorded? If it was drowning, why didn't anyone record it? Some scholars believe that "drowning was regarded as sudden death in feudal times, not' happy death'. According to ancient rituals, it is ominous that relatives and friends can't mourn, which also hinders the future of future generations. In order to cover up the truth, it is often regarded as death. The result is that those relatives and friends who are afraid of taboos and are unwilling to falsify are hesitant and helpless when writing. " More than twenty years after Li Bai's death, Liu wrote, "Xun Cen inquired about what he was looking for, and Yuan Danqiu treated wine with poetry." At that time, Li Bai's son was still in power, and Liu was afraid that this would hinder the future of future generations, so he wrote "death" for his avoidance. There are also people who avoid the heavy weight for this.

Du Fu seemed to have a premonition that Li Bai might drown. He wrote "Soliciting Four with the Moon" when Li Bai had a "three-night dream", and repeatedly raised his own concerns: "On the edge of rivers and lakes-the storm, shipwreck and fear suffered by a small boat." "There is water to cross, there is wild to toss, and if it falls, there are dragons and monsters." Du Fu knew that Li Bai was addicted to alcohol and that Li Bai was "ill at dusk by the river" in his later years. But he is not worried about drinking or getting sick, only that he may lose his boat. This kind of worry cannot be said to be unreasonable. To say the least, Du Fu gained experience in his contacts with Li Bai in previous years. Is Li Bai's death really Du Fu's worry?

In the official history, "Tang" and "Giving a public tribute under the moon when quarrying stones" both mentioned Li Bai's death, and they were substituted once, but they did not explain the cause of Li Bai's death. Only that Li Bai died of drunkenness in Xuancheng. So, was it drunkenness or drowning? People don't know. Maybe people don't want to mourn the drowning man and say that Li Bai died of illness, or maybe the ancients didn't want to face the end of Li Bai's death, preferring to recognize him as catching the moon in the water, and wandering immortals are unknown. Both causes of death are difficult to rule out. It is of little significance to solve the mystery of Li Bai's death now. On the contrary, the sentence "Drunk to death in this river" in Xiang Si's Biography of Tang Talents in the Tang Dynasty is worth pondering by later generations.