Wanglu Mountain Waterfall
Tang Dynasty - Li Bai
The incense burner produces purple smoke in the sunshine, and the waterfall hangs in front of the river in the distance. The flying stream plummeted down three thousand feet, and it was suspected that the Milky Way had fallen into the sky.
Li Bai (701-762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian layman. Li Bai was born in Chengji, Longxi (near today's Tianshui, Gansu Province). His ancestors migrated to the Western Regions in the late Sui Dynasty. Li Bai was born in Suiye, Central Asia. (The Chu River Basin south of present-day Balkhash Lake was under the jurisdiction of Anxi Dufu in the Tang Dynasty). When he was young, he moved with his father to Qinglian Township, Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan).
Most of his life was spent wandering. In the first year of Tianbao (742), he was called to Chang'an to serve in the Imperial Academy due to the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun. The style of the article made him famous for a while, and he was highly appreciated by Xuanzong. Later, because he could not be accepted by the powerful, he gave up his official position after only three years in Beijing, and continued his wandering life. In the second year after the Anshi Rebellion, he was indignant about the difficult times and joined the shogunate of Yongwang Li Lin. Unfortunately, King Yong and Suzong fought for the throne. After their defeat, Li Bai was implicated and exiled to Yelang (in today's Guizhou), but was pardoned on the way. In his later years, he wandered around the southeast, where he followed Li Yangbing, the magistrate of Dangtu County, and died of illness soon after.
Li Bai's poems are mainly lyrical. After Qu Yuan, he was the first to be able to extensively absorb the rich nutrients from the folk literature and art of the time and Yuefu folk songs since Qin, Han and Wei, and concentrated on improving them to form his unique style. He has extraordinary artistic genius and majestic artistic power. All surprising, exciting, and thought-provoking phenomena can be traced back to the writing. Du Fu has a comment that "when his pen falls in the storm, the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods" ("Send Li Twelve and White Twenty Rhymes"). He is the most outstanding romantic poet in my country after Qu Yuan, and is known as the "Immortal of Poetry". As famous as Du Fu, he is known as "Li Du" in the world. Han Yuyun said: "Li Du's articles are as bright as ever." ("Tiao Zhang Ji"). There is "The Collection of Li Taibai".