Li Bai (70 1-762) is the greatest romantic poet in China after Qu Yuan. He is a proud son of the times influenced by the ideology and culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and his thoughts and poems have typical characteristics of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. There is almost no one in China who doesn't know Li Bai, because Li Bai was a great poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and had an important position and far-reaching influence in the history of China's poetry development. He was the first poet in China. The word "Li Bai" is "Taibai" and is called "Qinglian layman". He was born in Ji Cheng, Longxi (northwest of Qin 'an, Gansu), and his ancestors fled to Suiye (near Kyrgyzstan and tokmak today) during the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, where Li Bai was born. As a teenager, Li Bai was gifted and had a wide range of interests, such as "reading strange books", "wandering immortals" and "being good at fencing". In the first year of Tang Zhongzong Shenlong (705), the family moved to Mianzhou, Sichuan, and was once enshrined by the Hanlin. Because it is called "Li Hanlin". He is known as "the immortal in the sky", and later generations also call him "Li Chenxian". However, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty only asked Li Bai and others to send a letter to Hanlin, the minister of the Chapter Department, and Li Bai's ambition could not be realized. Li Bai's personality is arrogant, and he can't stand the life of "making eyes at the eyebrows and bending his back to serve the dignitaries". Three years later, Li Bai was ruined by slander, so he invited himself back to the mountain and left Chang 'an. He can only visit the mountains and immortals and drink crazy songs to relieve his grief and indignation. But he never gave up his dream of making contributions and becoming an extraordinary person. After the An Shi Rebellion broke out, Li Bai was invited to Lilin, the shogunate of Wang Yong, and thought he had a chance to make contributions. , reciting the heroic poem "but using Dongshan Xie Anshi to laugh at Jinghu Sand for you".
Li Bai's poems and songs have diverse themes. His seven-character ancient poems (Shu Dao Nan, Tian Mu Shan Meng Deng, Jiang, Yin, etc. ); Five-character ancient poems (59 ancient styles); There are some poems in Yuefu folk songs in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, such as Long March and Midnight Wu Ge. And seven-character quatrains (looking at Lushan Waterfall, looking at Tianmen Mountain, making Baidi City as early as possible, etc. ) became masterpieces in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai was already famous in the Tang Dynasty. His poem "There is no set volume, but every family has it". He is the first poet in China's poetry.