Li Bai is as famous as Du Fu and is known as "Du Li" in the world. His thoughts are complicated, including Confucianism, Taoism, ranger and strategist, while Confucianism and Taoism are dominant, even putting Zhuangzi above Qu Yuan. Li Bai's political ideal is to "enlarge the atlas area and clarify Hai Xian County" (in response to Meng Shaofu's command). However, he avoided the imperial examination, lived in seclusion and made friends, in order to make a name for himself in Beijing and wait for him to be invited to the DPRK. His admiration for Jiang Shang, Fan Li, Lu Zhonglian, Sean and Xie Anzhi is beneficial. He was the teacher who made meritorious deeds for the emperor, and later retired with success. His thoughts are the product of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Gong Zizhen once said: "Zhuang and Qu Shi are inseparable, taking it as their heart and starting with confession;" Confucianism, immortals and chivalry are three things that cannot be combined into one. If they are angry, they will confess. "However, just as it was about to make a difference, the prosperity of Kaiyuan had passed, the court was increasingly corrupt, and a new crisis was brewing in the society. Desire is extremely extravagant, but the hope of realizing it is extremely involved, so his feeling of being hit by himself is doubly heavy. Whenever he encounters setbacks and injustice, he will burst into strong indignation, and his bold criticism and denial of the existing order are often overwhelming. But in addition to my indignation, I often want to use seclusion to seek immortality and binge drinking to temporarily relieve my mental pain, which shows the profound influence of Taoist criticism of reality and seclusion thought. In this way, Li Bai spent his whole life in the fierce ideological struggle between ideal and reality, birth and WTO entry.
Li Bai's life experience can be divided into four periods. (a) reading roaming period (before the age of 42). At the same time, Li Bai's fifteen wonderful books, Fu Ling Xiang Ru, fifteen immortals and fifteen good swordsmanship. After the age of twenty, I wandered through Shu, climbed Emei and went to Qingcheng. These experiences have had an important influence on the formation of Li Bai's bold personality and poetic style. In the 14th year of Kaiyuan, Li Bai was twenty-six. He "went abroad with his sword and left his relatives to travel far away" and began a new period of roaming and seeking official positions. Footprints, a few and a half China. He has lived in seclusion with Yuan Danqiu, Kong Chaofu and Taoist Wu Yun in Songshan, Culai and Tanzhong. (2) In the third year of Chang 'an (42 to 45 years old), in the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong sent a letter to Chang 'an on the recommendation of Wu Jun.. "Laugh at the sky and go out. Are we Artemisia people? " ("Nanling children go to Beijing") He Zhangzhi's opinion, sighing as "fallen immortals", is famous in the ruling and opposition parties. But Xuanzong only used him to decorate Taiping, so he felt that his political ideal was shattered. "Yang Jiuzhu, make waves and red leaves." His arrogant style of despising the imperial power was finally unacceptable, so he came out again. After five years in Xijing and three years in Hanlin, he realized the decadence of ruling the visiting delegation and the darkness of real politics, so he began to write some poems to express his anger and attack the reality. (3) Roaming again (45 to 55 years old). "As soon as I go to Beijing, I will take ten passengers to Liangyuan." White out of Beijing to Luo, met Du Fu, to Bianzhou, met Gao Shi, and the three went with them. "Get drunk in autumn and walk hand in hand with the Japanese." (Du Fu's "Looking for Fan Ten" and Li lived in seclusion for 12 years and forged a profound friendship. In the meantime, "being unemployed is like floating Peng", and life is very embarrassing. However, due to the increasingly dark politics in Tianbao period, his mood was also very sad and angry: "Kill the tiger and trap the eagle", but he thought he was "brilliant and worthy of the world", so more and more works exposed the reality and his rebellious spirit became stronger and stronger, which became the remarkable feature of his creation in this period. (4) unfortunate year (55 to death). An Shi started from chaos and hid in Lushan Mountain. Lin arose, crossed Xunyang and made him the shogunate. Later, he was imprisoned and exiled Yelang. "I have never shed tears in my life. I am crying here." On the way, I was pardoned and ordered to escort Li. Li Guangbi begged Shi Chaoyi, who volunteered to kill the enemy. During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai's poems and Du Like's poems were regarded as the embodiment of patriotism.
Li Bai is a great romantic poet. I have written many poems in my life, but "I was away from the Central Plains for eight years, and I lost nine of what I wrote at that time, and all those who survive today have won others" (Preface to Li Caotang's Collection). Li Taibai Ji has collected more than 900 poems, and The Whole Tang Poetry has collected 25 volumes. His plan has the largest number of archaisms and quatrains and the greatest achievements. Less rhymes, less seven rhymes. Among the ancient poems, there are 149 musical poems. Although most of these Yuefu poems are still the old themes of Yuefu, they are full of realistic political contents, such as "Fighting in the South and Fighting in the North", "Entering Wine", "Difficult to Walk" and "Liang". These poems, together with his famous 59 pieces of Antique, and his seven-character Long song, such as Climbing in the Dream of Tianmu Mountain and Sending a Learning Letter to Shu Yun from Xie Tiao Building in Xuanzhou, constitute an important aspect of Li Bai's poetic achievements. Some of them express their embrace and anger at political darkness, some show their anxiety about turbulent times, and some show their concern for women. The most distinctive works are those that lament political frustration, and their unrestrained feelings, such as running a river, can best reflect his temperament and style. He is also good at expressing implicit and profound feelings in the form of quatrains, such as Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou, Gift to Wang Lun, The First Work of Baidicheng, Sitting Alone in Jingting Mountain, etc. , especially the four quatrains, elegant and leisurely, like nature, so keep pace with Wang Changling, is the swan song of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, his five laws are also flowing, simple and honest, eclectic and unique. Rich imagination, bold exaggeration, strong lyricism and fresh language constitute the unique characteristics of his poetry, which shows his ability to learn poetry, Sao and Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. For details of his life, please refer to Tang Li's Preface to Caotang Collection, Tang Fan's Tang Zuoji and Tombstone. There is Li Taibai's collection, with Wang Qi as the compilation explanation.