Brief introduction of the author of Hanlin bachelor's reading and expressing ambition.

Li Bai (70 1 ~ 762), whose name is Taibai, is a violet layman. His ancestral home was in Ji Cheng, Longxi (now near Tianshui, Gansu), and he moved to the Western Regions at the end of Sui Dynasty. Li Bai was born in Broken Leaves in Central Asia (now the Chu River valley south of Balkhash Lake was under the jurisdiction of Anxi Duhu House in Tang Dynasty). When I was young, I moved to Qinglian Township, Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan) with my father. He spent most of his life roaming.

In the first year of Tianbao (742), under the recommendation of Taoist Wu Yun, he was called to visit the Hanlin in Chang 'an. The style of the article became famous for a while, which was quite appreciated by Tang Xuanzong. Later, because he couldn't see the dignitaries, he abandoned his official position in Beijing for only three years and continued to wander.

In the 15th year of Tianbao (756), the year after the Anshi Rebellion, he was angry and uneasy, and once joined Li Lin, the shogunate of Wang Yong. Unfortunately, there was a struggle for the throne between Wang Yong and Su Zong. After the failure, Li Bai was dragged to exile in Yelang (now Guizhou) and was pardoned on the way. Wandering southeast in his later years, dangtu county made Li die soon.

Li Bai's poems are mainly lyrical. He can really absorb its rich nutrition from the folk literature and art at that time and Yuefu folk songs since Qin, Han and Wei Dynasties, and concentrate on perfecting it to form his own unique style. He has extraordinary artistic talent and great artistic power, and all surprising, exciting and thought-provoking phenomena are at the end of his pen.

Li Bai is the greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan, and is known as the "Poet Fairy". As famous as Du Fu, he is called "Du Li" in the world. There are more than 1000 poems, including 30 volumes of Li Taibai's Collection.