When Li Bai wrote The Beginning of Baidicheng, he expressed the poet's pleasure and inner joy of crossing the river alone.
Comparison of creative background:
Understanding the creative background helps us to deeply understand the different moods expressed in the two poems:
1. After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Wang Yong Li Lin took it as his duty to quell the rebellion and sent messengers to invite Li Bai to join the shogunate three times. Li Bai applied for this job out of a good desire to serve the country and make contributions. In the second year of Zhide (757), there was a power struggle among Hengli, Tang Suzong and Yongli Emperor Li Lin, and Hengli wiped out Li Lin's army. Li Bai was found guilty and put into Xunyang prison. Later, Yelang was exiled. This poem was written by Li Bai when Yelang was exiled to the Three Gorges in February of the second year in Gan Yuan, Tang Suzong. Li Bai was 59 years old. At the age of 58, he went upstream from Jiujiang to Yichang, walked for almost a year, and then entered the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges is the most steep and difficult section of the Yangtze River. The journey here is slow, and his wife, master and brother-in-law have already bid farewell to Nanchang, so they are more lonely and in a worse mood. At that time, he wrote The Three Gorges. This poem has a variety of expression techniques, natural and true language, magnificent weather and open artistic conception, which shows the poet's heroism. But the feelings expressed are painful.
"2. First Coming to Baidicheng is a wonderful poem written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, when he returned from exile, and it is one of the most widely circulated poems of Li Bai. In the second year of Gan Yuan, Tang Suzong (759), the poet exiled Yelang and went to Bai Di for forgiveness. From time to time, he took a boat back to Jiangling to write this poem. The poem is about the Yangtze River from Bai Di to Jiangling, where the water is fast and ships are flying. The first sentence is about the height of Baidicheng; The second sentence is written in Jiangling Road, and the ship is fast; Three sentences fly into the boat, accompanied by the sound of mountain shadows; Four sentences write that the boat is as light as nothing, pointing out that the water is like diarrhea. The poet combined the happy mood after forgiveness with the grandeur of the countryside and the smooth and brisk sailing along the river. The whole poem is full of exaggeration and whimsy. Elegant and shocking, but not artificial, arbitrary and natural. Yang Shenzan, a Ming scholar, praised him: "You were scared to cry by the wind and rain!"