Li Bai traveled north and south all his life, wandering the rivers and lakes. In his later years, he lingered for a long time in the areas of Xuancheng, Qiupu, Huangshan, and Dangtu in present-day Anhui, leaving behind a series of footprints and a series of popular poems, and finally aged in Dangtu.
One
From the third year of Tang Tianbao (744) to the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), Li Bai's second "ten years of wandering" in his life was in the areas of Wu, Yue, and Anhui. In the autumn of the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), Li Bai traveled to Dangtu, Qiupu (present-day Guichi), and Qingyang in Xuanzhou. He cruised on the Shitai Qiupu River many times, and his poems surged with excitement, and he wrote seventeen "Qiupu Songs" in a row. Among them are "Qiupu Ape Night Sorrow, Huangshan Kan Whitehead." Qingxi is not Longshui, turning into a broken intestinal stream" "Two sideburns into Qiupu, once the dynasty has declined. The ape's voice induces gray hair, and the length is as long as it is silk" and other sentences. The sound of the ape is written in several poems, and it can be seen that the poignant ape sound is always accompanied by the poet. Although the poet traveled abroad, he still wanted to return to the political arena of Chang'an from time to time, but he "could not go if he wanted to go", which made "Bo You" become "Long Tour".
At that time, there was a hermit named Wang Lun in the mountain village of Jing County, who admired Li Bai's fame for a long time and wanted to invite the poet to his home to drink and talk about it. Unfortunately, he and Li Baisu did not know each other, and it was difficult to achieve his wish. He thought of a way, and in front of Li Bai's love of wine, he picked up a load of self-brewed fine wine and sold it in the streets of Xuancheng. This trick really attracted Li Bai. Li Bai also did not ask about the price of wine, only asked to take the wine to taste. Wang Lun handed over a bowl, Li Bai tasted it, and even said yes, he wanted to buy it all. But when I touched my pocket, I didn't bring a silver bag. Wang Lun then said, "The Golden Bell Jade Horse is not expensive enough, I just want to know each other and drink relatively." The two men drank from noon to sunset until the two baskets of wine were all drunk. Wang Lun invited Li Bai to his home as a guest, and Li Bai gladly agreed. Li Bai lived in Wang Lun's mountain residence for several days, and Wang Lun also accompanied him to visit the peach blossom pond under the Peach Blossom Ridge. When Li Bai left, Wang Lun kept sending him to the Taohuatan ferry. Li Bai got off the canopy boat, and Wang Lun and others were still on the shore to sing and send off, and it was difficult to give up. Li Bai was very moved and wrote a poem called "Gift to Wang Lun": "Li Bai will want to go on a boat, and overhear the song on the shore." The peach blossom pond is thousands of feet deep, and it is not as deep as Wang Lun sent me affection. "This poem is popular for its sincere feelings and sonorous tone.
Li Bai, played by actor Pu Cunxin
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), Li Bai crossed the Dragon Gate to Lingyang and went up the Huangshan Mountains from Xianyuan. At that time, he was accompanied by Cui Xianling and Wang Twelve Priests. Li Bai fell in love with Huangshan for ten minutes and wrote several poems praising its magnificent scenery. He wrote in "Sending Wen Virgins back to the former residence of White Goose Ridge in Huangshan Mountain": "Return to the White Goose Ridge, thirst for Danshajing." "White Goose Ridge is located in the east sea of the Yellow Mountain, 1800 meters above sea level, with thousands of cliffs, unattainable heights, and the peaks are ancient and pine, and the boulders are leilei. Li Bai's poem praises the rugged beauty of the Huangshan Mountain—the 4,000-thousand-year-high Huangshan Mountain, its thirty-two lotus peaks, like a golden hibiscus flower in the sun. The cliffs are deep valleys, and the Dan Cliffs are sandwiched by stone pillars. When you reach the top, the sea of clouds churns under your feet, and you can see the pine trees of Tianmu Mountain in the distance, and there is a feeling of "riding the bridge and stepping on the rainbow".
When Li Bai was visiting Huangshan Mountain, he learned that a bachelor named Hu Hui, who lived in Bishan Mountain at the foot of the mountain, had raised a pair of white birds and went to visit him. This white bird, also known as the white pheasant, is one of the rare birds of the Huangshan Mountains, and it is said that this bird is difficult to keep. The pair of white storks raised by Hu Xueshi were not frightened when they saw strangers, and the owner called his name and came close to get food in the palm of his hand. Li Baiping loved this way in his life, and he loved it even more when he saw this situation. Hu Hui expressed his willingness to give bai yi and only asked Li Bai for a poem. Li Bai gladly ordered his pen and quickly wrote a poem "Give Huangshan Hugong to Ask for White Plover": "Please buy a double white bird with double white bibi." The white bird is as white as a brocade, and the white snow is shameful. In the shadow jade pond, between the brush trees. The night is cold and the moon is quiet, and the flowers are idle. I would like to have this bird and play with it. Hu Gong can quit giving, cage sending savages back. ”
Guo Moruo once wrote a "Song of Huangshan Mountain", in which he wrote about Li Bai's tour of Huangshan Mountain, and he believed that Li Bai did not dare to write poetry except for his thank you for the white bird. In fact, in addition to the poem of Bai Egret, Li Bai also wrote several poems about Huangshan. However, as a prolific poet, Li Bai does have relatively few poems about Huangshan, and whether the reason is as Guo Moruo said remains to be solved.
Two
During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai was an aide to Li Xuan, the Yong King. Later, Li Xuan plotted to defect and was defeated, and Li Bai was implicated by it, and was exiled to Yelang in the second year of De (757), but fortunately he was pardoned on the way. In the spring of the first year of the first century (760), Li Bai returned to the home of Pingfeng Die in Lushan and was reunited with Lady Zong. The following year, Shi Chaoyi, the son of Shi Siming, the leader of the Rebel Rebellion in An Shi, led an army to besiege Song Prefecture, and the general Li Guangbi led his troops to quell it. At that time, although Li Bai was a 61-year-old man, he still wanted to rush to Xuzhou to ask for help to kill the enemy. However, in the middle of the way, he fell ill, and he could only return to Anhui in the autumn of that year to join his uncle Li Yangbing.
Li Yangbing warmly received Li Bai, which made him feel warm at the end of the road. Later, Li Bai became seriously ill and suffered from rot disease. Li Yangbing spared no expense to buy rhino horn and other expensive drugs for Li Bai's diagnosis and treatment, and Li Bai improved slightly. Li Bai entrusted the stored poems to Li Yangbing and asked him to edit them into a collection and write a preface. During his illness, Li Bai also wrote poems such as "Laughing Song Line" and "Sorrowful Song Line". "Laughing Song Line" has such a sentence: "Laugh, laugh!" The king did not see the curve like a hook, and the ancients knew that Er was a duke. The king did not see straight as a string, and the ancients knew the side of the road of death. "Song of Sorrow" has such a sentence: "Sorrow comes, sorrow comes!" Although the sky is long, although the earth is long, the golden and jade hall should not be guarded. A hundred years of wealth can be geometric, dead and alive once everyone has. It can be seen that Li Bai is thinking about life and world affairs during his illness, and the words are full of sadness and bitterness.
One rumor said that one day, Li Bai came to the river on crutches, hired a small boat, wanted to go to the river to admire the moon, and asked the boatman to play a few pounds of wine on the street. The boat went down the river, and when it was almost time for the quarry, the moon rose. Li Bai drank while admiring the moon, and later when he got drunk, he wanted to reach into the water to catch the moon, and he fell into the water. When the people rescued him, he was unconscious, and people found a draft poem in his arms, in which it was written: "Dapeng Fei Zhen Eight Descendants, Zhongtian destruction is not good." The rest of the wind stirred up the world, and you fu sang hung stone songs. Later generations got this, and Jonny died who was out of the nose. This "Road Song" has become the masterpiece of the poet Xian.
In the first year of the Tang Dynasty (762), Li Bai died at the age of 61.
Li Yangbing did not live up to Li Bai's instructions, compiled Li Bai's poems into the "Caotang Collection", and wrote a preface, saying: "Yang Bing tried to sing the strings and songs in Dangtu, and his heart was not good, and the public did not abandon me, and took care of each other on a flat boat." When the crown is hanging, the public is in urgent need, the draft is ten thousand volumes, and the hand collection is not repaired. On the pillow is given jane, and the preamble is given..."
After Li Bai died, he was buried at the foot of Dangtu Mountain. 55 years later, Fan Chuanzheng, the grandson of Li Bai's friend Fan Wen, served as an observer of XuansheGuan and, in accordance with Li Bai's last wishes, moved Li Bai's tomb to the sun of Qingshan (also known as Xie Gongshan) in Dangtu.