Most historical film and television dramas are based on real historical facts, so the release of each historical drama will arouse people's attention to the archetypes of the characters in the play. For example, in recent years, many film and television dramas have been filmed with the Theme of the Qing Palace, so people are more familiar with the history of this dynasty than with the history of other dynasties.
However, although film and television dramas are based on history, the choreographers will still be modified for better film and television effects. Therefore, we should not take the historical image in the film and television drama as a prototype.
Recently, after the release of the Tang Dynasty historical drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", everyone also excavated the character archetypes in it. In the play, Li Bi is a talented and dashing figure who despises the world, and his prototype is also considered by the audience to be the Tang Dynasty celebrity Li Bi.
▲Image: Li Bi stills
The reason why the audience will dig up his prototype is because his performance in the play is very exciting and attractive enough, in fact, his prototype is more exciting than the film and television drama.
There are many historical figures who have left the impression of being dashing, but no historical figure can be like Li Bi, from childhood to old age.
After he was a famous person, he said that he was a child prodigy, absolutely no falsehood, and when he was young, he was already famous, and even Li Longji, who was in the temple, knew him.
▲Image: Lee Long-ki stills
When Tang Xuanzong heard that there was such a wonderful person, he met him specifically and offered to test his knowledge to see if he was really as talented as everyone said. When the emperor and the prime minister were playing chess, the prime minister simply took "chess" as the test question.
Li Bi had no objection to the subject matter given by the prime minister. The emperor felt that Li Bi was still too young to cut into the meaning of the topic, so he specially gave him a demonstration first: "Fang Ruo chess game, round like a chess piece, moving like a chess player, quiet like a chess dead."
After listening to the example given by Tang Xuanzong, Li Bi did not hesitate to say his answer: "If Fang is righteous, if he uses wisdom, if he moves like a material, if he is quiet, if he is proud."
▲Image: Stills of playing chess
The example given by the emperor is figurative, but Li Bi, who is so young, gives an abstract answer, the former is tangible, the latter is intangible, and the answer also contains the philosophy of life.
Tang Xuanzong was very sorry for his materials, and when he saw that his plasticity was so strong, he hurriedly ordered the officials to cultivate well, and then he even gave him an official position and let him enter the palace as a companion of The Crown Prince Li Heng. The emperor's intention was very obvious, to cultivate Li Bi as a confidant of the crown prince, and to make him a heavy vassal after his death in the future, and let him assist Li Heng.
However, because of his negligence, An Lushan launched an infighting, and Tang Xuanzong fled with the harem and his courtiers when he could not resist it, and divided into two roads with the prince at Ma Songpo, with Li Bi just following the prince.
▲Image: An Lushan stills
After the crown prince arrived at Lingwu, he claimed the title of emperor without authorization, honoring Li Longji as emperor Taishang, and Li Bi became Li Heng's behind-the-scenes adviser in advance. The crown prince enfeoffed Li Bi several times after becoming emperor, but the latter refused to hold any official position and only helped Li Heng handle government affairs as a behind-the-scenes strategist.
At that time, most of the official documents were handled by the behind-the-scenes strategist. After the world returned to stability, Li Bi withdrew and left, away from the court. Until the time of Emperor Daizong, the emperor still often invited him to be an official, and in the Deyong period, Li Bi could not resist the emperor's request and finally assumed the position of prime minister.
Generally, the talented prime minister will choose the method of black belly to solve the enemy, and when he faces the arrogance of Tubo, he also proposes a very effective plan to destroy Tubo's arrogance. He also coordinated the contradictions between the emperor's father and son many times, and even more so, the conflicts between the internal groups of the Tang Dynasty. Without Li Bi in the middle, Li Heng's father and son are very likely to develop into Li Yuan's father and son.
But why is this historical figure so important to the Tang Dynasty not well known to the public? In fact, the answer is hidden in the "Long Song Line" he wrote. The poems of this poem can be said to be full of heroism and manliness, the artistic conception is very long, and it contains many philosophies of life.
▲ Image: Contents of "Long Song Line"
The general meaning of the poem is: The heavens support me above my head, the earth carries me under my feet, and the heavens and the earth give birth to me intentionally or unintentionally? Otherwise, how could I have gone to the valley to learn the art of monasticism? How can you joke about life and pursue fame and profit? If you don't get rich, how can you leave and just be a man who lectures on morality? As a big husband, only by pursuing his own ambitions all his life can he be regarded as a real foresight. Please all look at the stories of the past, only like Fan Li, it is really comfortable to take a leisurely raft after being full of merit.
Presumably, this poem is also the voice of Li Bi himself, because he was still very young and devoted himself to the pursuit of Taoist thought. This is highly similar to the image of the film and television drama Li Bi, although he tried his best to help Tang Suzong and then worked hard for the imperial court, but the shadow of the Taoist can still be seen from his body.
He often went into hiding, asking the emperor to ask for many invitations before re-emerging from the mountain, and his behavior was naturally not what the emperor expected, although the emperor was eager for talent, but they wanted the idea of talent to be less independent.
Taoism has never paid attention to fame and fortune, which is the opposite of Confucianism's positivity. Historians have always revered Confucianism, and since they cannot discredit him, they can only downplay his merits, which has led to such a big figure that few people know about him.
Article author: Dahui
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