If we want to understand Li Bai, we must first understand the era in which he lived, the "Tang Dynasty"!
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After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, killed two brothers, and ascended the throne.
After Li Shimin ascended to the throne, he loved his work very much. The national strength of the Tang Dynasty also grew.
Perhaps infected, or educated, several kings after Li Shimin also loved the job. By the time of his great-grandson Tang Xuanzong "Li Longji", the national strength had reached its peak.
When Li Longji waited for his old age, who could have imagined that he would transform into a big salted fish for Yang Yuhuan. I don't love work anymore, and I eat and drink with Yang Guifei all day long. This led to the rebellion of the commander of the military district, "An Lushan". From this point on, the Tang Dynasty began to move towards a downward spiral of right angle decline.
Although the development of the Tang Dynasty was like riding a roller coaster. In fact, Li Bai's luck is quite good. He spent most of his life in Sheng Tang.
In fact, Li Bai's ideal is not to become a poet. "Writing poetry" is just his hobby, he has more lofty ideals and ambitions!
In Li Bai's own words, "strive for its wisdom" and be willing to be a supplement. Make Huan District Dading, Hai County Qingyi.
From the "Dai Shou Shan Answer Meng Shaofu Migration Document"
The vernacular meaning is: "Be a big official, do great things." Qi family rule the country and the world"
So, how does Li Bai chase his dreams? And how to become an Internet celebrity poet.
At that time, Li Bai was a rich second generation, and he went to Sichuan with his father to live at the age of 5.
Read books when you were young. As the saying goes, "Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles", so Li Bai began his travel career at the age of 15.
At the beginning, it was only a provincial tour, and it began at the age of 25, running out of Sichuan to the whole country. After that, he traveled all over the country for the rest of his life.
He's not like the donkey friends who only "come here" because they are too low-level. Li Bai would write travelogues wherever he went.
For example, "Farewell to the Jingmen Gate": Read the far Jingmen outside the gate and travel from the Chu Kingdom. The mountains end with the plains, and the rivers flow into the wilderness. The flying mirror under the moon, yunsheng jiehai building. Still pity the hometown water, send the boat for thousands of miles.
It is not enough to write only travelogues, and it is okay to engage in some literature and art. "Quiet Night Thoughts" The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground, looking up at the bright moon, looking down at the hometown.
Although I have been sightseeing, I have never forgotten my dreams. He was always looking for opportunities to become an official.
At that time, there were two main ways to become an official: to be examined, or to be recommended.
It is said that at that time, Li Bai's father was a businessman, so he could not participate in the imperial examination, no matter what the truth is, Li Bai did not take any imperial examination in his life.
In that era, there were two main ways to be recommended: "self-recommendation or seclusion (pretending to be high and cold, "The Feeling of a Hermit and a High Man")"
At that time, self-recommendation was called gan ye, that is, bragging about how bullish he was in the cover letter.
In fact, Li Bai has indeed written many similar cover letters................... However, the goose is useless, no one cares about him and does not reply to the letter..............
When Li Bai saw that it was useless, he took a two-pronged approach, writing a cover letter while living in seclusion.
In that era, it was widely believed that the people who lived in seclusion in the mountains were tall people, and if you didn't live in seclusion in the ravines for a few years, you were embarrassed to go out.
Seclusion is also a knack. It would be silly for you to really entertain yourself in a place where no one else can find it. The real technical seclusion is: "Everyone knows that you are secluded, but they do not know your details" This is a way for ancient people to hype themselves. Just to make yourself famous! As we said above, if you want to be famous, you can't just live in seclusion, you have to hype, Li Bai's hype way is to write poetry. He not only wrote poems but also sent circles of friends and microblogs. The kind issued by various platforms.
If you want to have more fans, you have to be diligent. So Li Bai wrote hard and sent hard, so that almost 1,000 songs have been circulated so far.
Because of the seclusion in the mountains! Therefore, landscape poetry seems to be more like: flying down three thousand feet, suspected that the Milky Way fell for nine days, etc. ... ...
But just writing is not enough, it's okay to find some big V, have a drink together, and by the way, more text. For example: the late Man Xi ci Yellow Crane Tower, fireworks in March under Yangzhou. The lone sail is far away in the blue sky, only to see the yangtze river skyline. "Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to the Guangling Tomb"
From the age of 15 to the age of 42. He was diligent and earnest for half a lifetime, and at that time, he was considered a top Internet celebrity, but the imperial court still did not let him be a high official. So Hu Li Bai wrote these into the poem: "Shu Dao Difficulty" said: Shu Dao is difficult, it is difficult to go to the qingtian, sideways to look west and often consult.
Just when Li Bai was running out of hope, Tang Xuanzong suddenly recruited him to join the palace as an official. At that time, he was very happy, so Hu wrote another poem: Laugh at the sky and go out, my generation is a Pengyi person. From "Nanlingbei Children Enter beijing"
But Tang Xuanzong's search for Li Bai was pure entertainment. There is nothing to write a few poems praising the Taiping Dynasty, or exaggerating the beauty of Yang Guifei. For example, in "QingPing Tone": Yun wants to dress and flowers, and the spring wind helps the blue building to suppurate.
This made Li Bai depressed, Lao Tzu came to govern the country, and as a result, you used me as a mascot! It's too much.
The depressed Li Bai was also ostracized and lost his official. But the official can not do, face we can not lose, before leaving do not forget to spit a hand: "An can destroy the eyebrows and bend the waist of the magnate, so that I can not be happy" from "Sleepwalking Heavenly Grandmother Yin Don't Stay"
In his later years, Li Bai left the imperial court and continued his career as a donkey friend. Do you think that Li Bai has since given up the ideal of governing the country and the world? No, Li Bai never gave up his ideals. Later, coinciding with the Anshi Rebellion, he re-emerged from the mountains to join the Yong King, who was rehabilitated at that time. Became a strategist.
But life is often mostly, whenever you are full of hope, God will give you a slap to keep you awake!
Due to the power struggle in the imperial court, King Yong was considered a traitor, and Li Bai was led and sent to Yelang.
Later, the imperial court granted amnesty to the world, and Li Bai regained his freedom. On the way back to Jinling along the river, there was a feeling, so Hu wrote a poem "Early White Emperor City" to the White Emperor's colorful clouds, and the Thousand Mile Jiangling was returned in one day. The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had already passed through the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains.
At this time, Li Bai was old and could not move. Two years after returning to Jinling, Li Baixian died, and a generation of poetry immortals fell.
There are many theories about Li Baixian's death: drinking a lot, dying of illness, and so on
In Li Bai's mind, the poet's position is always the first, and he can sing and cry
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