A farewell story of the ancients.

In the fifteenth year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (727), Li Baidong returned to Anlu, Hubei, at the age of 27. He lived in Anlu for ten years, but most of the time, he made friends with poetry and traveled abroad. In his own words, "it's a waste of ten years to keep wine in the land."

That is, while living in Anlu, Li Bai met Meng Haoran who was twelve years older than him. Meng Haoran admired Li Bai very much and they soon became close friends.

In March of the 18th year of Kaiyuan (730), Li Bai learned that Meng Haoran was going to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), so he sent someone to Jiangxia (now Wuchang District, Wuhan) to meet Meng Haoran. A few days later, Meng Haoran took a boat to the east, and Li Bai personally sent it to the river. When I was leaving, I wrote this song "Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou by the Yellow Crane Tower".

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This farewell poem has its special emotional tone. It is different from Wang Bo's Farewell to Du Shaofu Shu Biography and Wang Wei's Farewell to Weicheng Qu, which is affectionate and considerate. This poem shows a poetic parting.

The reason for saying this is because this is the parting of two romantic and chic poets, and also because this parting is linked with a prosperous time, a prosperous time and a prosperous region, and the poet Li Bai's yearning is also brought in in the happy parting, which makes this parting very poetic.

In a word, this poetic parting of two romantic and chic poets is another yearning parting of Li Bai, which vividly shows the vast picture of boating on the Yangtze River and the details of lonely sails in the distance with the gorgeous scenery in March. ?

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