We know that the poetry of the Tang Dynasty occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese art, and Li Bai and Meng Haoran are very famous representatives. So, who has higher artistic attainments, Meng Haoran or Li Bai? ?
Meng Haoran was a famous landscape pastoral poet in the Tang Dynasty. His poems can be said to be paintings within poems, and poems within paintings, which is similar to Wang Wei's. And Li Bai is the representative of the bold school, which is what we call the romantic school. You see him flying down three thousand feet, you see he is born with talents that will be useful, and he will come back after all his money is gone. With this kind of performance, some people think that Li Bai is more happy because he likes wine, so he is known as Li Bai's hundred poems about wine. Chinese people like wine, so they like Li Bai.
One of the biggest artistic features of Meng Haoran's poems is that he neither writes about people nor travels, but uses scenery to fully express the meaning of a poem. After reading it, a picture will come to mind. This method of using scenes to express emotions is a very good method. Mr. Li Bai's poems are direct expressions of the heart, allowing people to feel their inner feelings, while Meng Haoran's poems are of the graceful type, with chilling cicadas and sad scenes, facing the long pavilion at night, and the showers beginning to stop.
As for who is higher and who is lower, I think it is meaningless. If you insist on making a comparison, it will intensify the phenomenon of literati being contemptuous of each other. It is even more unnecessary. I think everyone has their own ideas. Do you like Li Bai? It touches your heart directly, that’s good, it shows that you are a generous person. I like Meng Haoran’s pastoral style of landscapes, which is also good, because I think mountains, water and woods are beautiful. You don’t have to work for a living and just look at it every day. Mountains and water, this kind of life is what I hope for.
Do you like Meng Haoran’s pastoral poems or Li Bai’s romantic poems? What is the reason?