Li Bai moved with his father to Qinglian Township, Zhangming County, Mianzhou (now jiangyou city, Sichuan) when he was about five years old. Li Bai grew up there and became a Qinglian layman. Li Bai stayed in Jiangyou for more than ten years, and then he has been traveling all over the country as an official.
Li Bai's poems are magnificent and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with bold and unrestrained style, beautiful and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the perfect unity of content and art, so he was called "Poet Fairy". His poems mainly described mountains and rivers and expressed inner feelings. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen is shaken by the wind and rain, and the poem makes the gods cry", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature in his poems. Li Bai's poems are full of self-expression and subjective lyricism, and the expression of feelings is overwhelming. He and Du Fu are called "Big Du Li" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Du Li").
In Li Bai's poems, imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques are often used comprehensively to produce a fantastic, magnificent and moving artistic conception, which is why Li Bai's romantic poems give people the feeling of being bold and unrestrained, elegant and immortal.
Li Bai's poems and songs had a far-reaching influence on later generations. Han Yu, Meng Jiao and Li He in the middle Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, Gao Qi, Yang Shen and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poems. Li Bai was born in Changlong County (renamed as Changming County on July12, and now belongs to Qinglian Township, jiangyou city, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province), and in the first year of Chang 'an, it belonged to Mianzhou (Brazil County), Jiannan Province. Another way of saying it is that his father was born in the Broken Leaf City (now tokmak, Kyrgyzstan) in the Western Region from the Central Plains, and moved back to Chimelong County, Mianzhou, South Province (now jiangyou city, Sichuan Province) when he was 4 years old. His father Li Ke's life story is unknown.
Li Bai was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and his life was engraved by Li Bai's handwriting. He spent most of his life roaming, and he traveled more than half of China.
At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan alone and began to wander widely, reaching Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and Yuezhou in the east, living in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province).
He traveled around, hoping to make friends and visit celebrities, so as to be introduced, climb to the top in one fell swoop and realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, I have accomplished nothing. Continue to go north to Taiyuan and Chang 'an (now Shaanxi An), east to Qi and Lu, and live in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong).
At this time, he has made many celebrities and created many excellent poems. Li Bai doesn't want to take the exam to be an official. He hoped to rely on his own talent and embark on his career through the recommendation of others, but no one appreciated him all the time. He once wrote a book to introduce himself with Han Jingzhou, a famous contemporary figure, but he didn't get a reply.
Until the first year of Tianbao (742), due to the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun, Li Bai was called to visit the Hanlin in Chang 'an, and his articles became famous all over the world. Li Baichu was appreciated by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty for his talent, but later he was unable to meet the dignitaries. After only three years in Beijing, he gave up his official position and continued his wandering life.
In the second year of An Shi Rebellion (756), he was angry and uneasy, and once joined Li Lin, the shogunate of Wang Yong. Unfortunately, Wang Yong and Su Zong competed for the throne. After the defeat, Li Bai was dragged into exile in Yelang (now Guizhou), and was pardoned on the way, writing "Send Baidicheng early". In his later years, he drifted to the southeast, went to Dangtu county magistrate Li's uncle and nephew, and died soon.