It is wrong for Bai Juyi to look down on Li Bai. Bai Juyi did not look down on Li Bai.
Bai Juyi and Li Bai are both great poets in the Tang Dynasty, each with his own unique poetic style and artistic achievements. Bai Juyi praised Li Bai's poems and talents. For example, in Li Bai's Song of Eternal Sorrow, Bai Juyi spoke highly of it. Therefore, it is unfounded to think that Bai Juyi looks down on Li Bai.
When Bai Juyi was born, Li Bai had passed away. Although there was no emotional intersection between them, Bai Juyi, as a generation of literary giants, was also familiar with Li Bai's poems, and his admiration was beyond words. Bai Juyi praised Li Bai, saying that he would stay forever and move Wu Yi.
Bai Juyi came to the edge of the quarry and saw the cenotaph, which has been abandoned for many years and overgrown with weeds, and has been connected to the horizon. The cenotaph, originally used as a memorial to the great writer, has been forgotten for a long time, and the desolation of the present situation makes Bai Juyi feel extremely distressed by Li Bai. He wrote the classic Li Bais Tomb to express his reverence and lament for the poet.
Here, we can read Bai Juyi's great respect for Li Bai's literary talent, and use "earth-shattering prose" to show Li Bai's great influence on the literary world before his death, which is even more a direct slap in the face to those who say that Bai Juyi despises Li Bai and disdains Li Bai.
Reasons for Li Bai's death:
The first one is that Li Bai died of excessive drinking.
This statement has also been recognized by some historians, because it is an indisputable fact that Li Bai is addicted to alcohol, and with the growth of age, this hobby has turned into alcoholism, and it is normal to die of alcoholism at the age of 61.
The second statement is that Li Bai fell ill and died.
this is recorded in the history books. At that time, 6-year-old Li Bai was still running around for the Tang Dynasty, struggling to realize his dream of officialdom. Later, he was forced to return to his hometown because of illness, and because life was really tight, he had to go to Dangtu to go to his relatives, which made Li Bai worse, and eventually died in a foreign land.
the third way of saying it is drowning.
At that time, Li Bai was drinking and writing poems in the place of quarrying. A bright moon was shining in the sky and the lake beside the quarry. The romantic Li Bai was so playful that he wanted to catch the moon in the lake, but he accidentally slipped into the water and drowned. People would rather that Li Bai died because he was romantic and playful than believe that he was forced to die by life.