The Tang Dynasty was a dynasty that believed in Taoism, and Taoist thought penetrated into all aspects of society, which had a far-reaching impact on literature and art in the Tang Dynasty, especially in its heyday. Li Bai, because of the correspondence between his personality and Taoist thought, his works are obviously branded with Taoist thought from ideological content to artistic style.
Judging from Li Bai's poems about immortals with distinctive personal marks, poems about immortals are often self-immortal, and consciousness often pays more attention to practical problems such as whether they can become immortals and how to cultivate themselves. It is precisely because of his lifelong interest in Taoism that Li Bai tirelessly traveled to famous mountains and made an alchemy. So in the process of seeking immortality, he wrote poems about immortals.
The Style of Li Bai's Works
Boldness is the main feature of Li Bai's poems. In addition to the factors of ideological character and talent, the artistic expression and genre structure used in Li Bai's poems are also important reasons for his bold and elegant style. Being good at relying on imagination and being subjective and objective are the important characteristics of romantic artistic techniques in Li Bai's poems. Almost every article has imagination, and some even use a variety of imagination throughout.
Realistic things, natural landscapes, myths and legends, historical allusions and dreamland have all become the media of his imagination. With the help of imagination, we often transcend time and space, interweave reality with dreams and fairyland, and interweave nature with human society to reproduce objective reality. The images in his works are not the direct reflection of objective reality, but the externalization of his inner subjective world, which is the truth of art.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Bai