Li Bai was born in Ji Cheng, Longxi. When I was a teenager, I lived in the middle of Shu, and there was Qingcheng Mountain nearby, both of which were holy places of Taoism. So the environment has a great influence on his belief in immortal Taoism. In his youth, he lived in seclusion in a big mine and studied vertical and horizontal techniques under Zhao Yan. It can be said that Li Bai's adolescence was spent in seclusion and roaming, immortal Taoist belief and Ren Xia. About twenty-four or five years before and after Kaiyuan, he went west to Chang 'an to seek an official position.
Although most of his political pursuits ended in failure, his political enthusiasm never waned and he volunteered in his later years. Among them, the political enthusiasm of poetry is in great contrast with the tragedy of failure in reality and the blindness to politics. This contrast shows the naive personality of the first-born poet. At the same time, he showed the enterprising spirit and temperament of the Tang people in a special way.
In return for gold, the failure to return to Youzhou in the north and the tragedy of entering the eternal king's curtain ... even though Li Bai was frustrated repeatedly in politics, he still maintained his own style. Retirement is the way to be an official, assisting the king to help the world is the realization of his value goal, and "retiring after success" is the final choice to maintain success. In order to realize his ambition, Li Bai experienced numerous setbacks, hardships and sorrows, but he always persevered.
The coincidence of history and reality, the coincidence of subconscious cultural complex and realistic chance make naive poets "ignorant of justice" and play tragic roles regardless of real interests. Of course, we don't need to criticize the poet's political shortsightedness too much, because the recognition of Jiang Zuo's cultural spirit of celebrities and Jiang Zuo's history and culture has always existed in his deep cultural psychology, and only in this specific period did he realize this potential personality.
The active and enterprising attitude of the scholars in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was idealized in Li Bai. Li Bai is a man with a strong sense of fame and fortune, and he has a strong Confucian idea of "helping the poor and struggling, and not competing with the world". However, he looked down on the Confucian scholars who died in Whitehead, unwilling to take the road of imperial examination as an official, and even more unwilling to join the army. But hope that the world will meet, and always fantasize about "making peace with vassals", "conquering the world" and "reaching Yu Daqing". After establishing the achievements of the world, I retired and retired from the rivers and lakes. Of course, his overly idealistic life design will continue to fail in real life. This makes him often fall into grief, injustice and disappointment. But because he has been longing for such an ideal, he has always maintained a spirit of conceit, self-confidence, openness and high spirits. He highly sublimated the spirit of the scholars in the prosperous Tang Dynasty to join the WTO and brought it into an idealized realm.
As for Li Bai's poems, every sentence is the voice of the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai's free and easy temperament, arrogant and independent personality, approachable feelings and strong feelings burst out, forming the distinctive characteristics of Li Bai's lyric style. For example, "Singing to Send Cen" is about indignation at political darkness and the inversion of right and wrong. Grief and indignation, impassioned, with cadence and rhythm changes, depicting the ups and downs when emotions break out, people directly feel the shock of the soul. Another example is Seventeen Poems of Qiu Pu. His peculiar imagination often has an unusual connection, which changes with the flow of emotions, bizarre and vertical and horizontal. Those poems that are blurted out without carving are often transparent, pure and dazzling, reflecting Li Bai's disapproval of secular noble personality.
The strength and charm of personality shown in Li Bai's poems, his extraordinary self-confidence of "God-given talent, let it be used", his independent personality of "Oh, how can I grovel to high-ranking officials", his awe-inspiring demeanor of "playing with thousands of friends and treating them like dirt" and his chic style of writing have attracted countless literati. In the cultural tradition of China ancient feudal society in which individual personality consciousness was suppressed by orthodox thoughts, Li Bai's unrestrained and naive personality, cultural temperament and personality spirit undoubtedly had great charm.
Li Bai's utopian political ideal is externalized into a better and freer "future reality" than reality. It is a more metaphysical voice in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, a transcendence and prospect of existence, a persistent pursuit of infinity in limited practice, and has profound idealistic aesthetic implications. The formation of Li Bai's Confucian cultural personality is deeply influenced by Mencius' moral personality view, which is manifested in lofty personality realm and independent personality style. Li Bai's poetic realm and artistic techniques are also quite consistent with Mencius' personality aesthetics. The practical significance of Li Bai and Ren Xia is that the subject is eager to get rid of the ordinary and mechanical cycle life mode in practical experience, and sublimate to a new level of humanity in this process. The idealistic passion of Li Bai's Xiandao cultural personality comes from the conscious pursuit of perfection. It is in this pursuit that the measure of perfection and its pursuit itself, as the infinite direction of practice in limited history, have been sublimated into a lofty infinite realm, which has made Li Bai the darling of this era.