Li Bai entered middle age, and his love had many twists and turns. At the age of forty, the first wife he married, Xu Shi, died of illness and was soon rejected by the Liu clan; at the age of forty-one, he took in a neighbor's daughter, and was abandoned again. The marriage was unhappy, and the career that had been begging for many years had turned lucky. At the age of forty-two, he was suddenly ordered to enter Beijing as an official, but only two years later he was ostracized by the magnates and forced to resign and leave Beijing. However, the official luck was not good, but he took the peach blossom luck, and soon after leaving Beijing, he harvested a romantic love.
This romantic love stemmed from a poem he wrote after he left Beijing, namely "Liang Yuan Yin". This poem was written by him when he was traveling with Du Fu and Gao Shi to LiangYuan and other places.
He bid farewell to the capital, depressed, and could only explain himself by roaming, drinking, and writing poetry. He said in "Liang Yuan Yin": "Life is not too sad to reach life, and drink fine wine and ascend to a high building." And the setbacks of his career made him deeply feel that the world was uncertain, and he despised fame and fortune even more. In the poem, he sighed: "In the past, people were rich and noble and believed in the Tombs, and now people cultivate the tombs of the Tombs." The deserted city is empty of the bishan moon, and the ancient trees are all in the clouds. Liang Wanggong Que Jin An? The horses are not treated first. Dancing shadows and songs scattered in the green pool, and the empty water flowed east to the sea. "Good Song" Yun in "Dream of the Red Chamber": "Everyone in the world knows that the gods and immortals are good, but the name of merit cannot be forgotten!" Where will the past and the present meet? A pile of grass was gone. "Poetically, both have a transcendent meaning of seeing through the red dust. Although Li Bai said in the poem: "I was full of tears when I mourned this matter, and I could not return to the gold when I bought drunk." But he was not demoralized, so he wrote at the end of the poem: "Songs and ballads, meaning far away." When Dongshan was lying high, it was not too late to get up and want to help Cangsheng. ”
According to legend, this "Liang Yuan Yin" was written by Li Bai on one of the walls of the temple, and when Zong Shi, the granddaughter of the former prime minister Zong Chuke, passed by, he was amazed and impressed, and even spent thousands of dollars to buy the entire wall, so as not to let the people of the temple erase the poems on the wall. It can be seen that through this poem, Zong Shi understood Li Bai and became his super fan. Later, when Li Bai heard about this, he was deeply moved, regarded Zongshi as a confidant of Hongyan, and used "Liang Yuan Yin" as a dowry to let people come to the door to propose to them. And zongshi obviously admired Li Bai so much that he took the wall with "Liang Yuan Yin" written on it as a dowry and married Li Bai. The love story of "buying a wall with thousands of dollars" has thus been circulated in the world.
The love story of Li Bai and Zong's "buying a wall with thousands of dollars" is true or false, and it is difficult to verify. However, after the two got married, they knew and loved each other, and they were very fond of each other, but there are poems as evidence. Once, when Li Bai, who was about to leave Qiupu for Xunyang, wrote a poem to his wife Zongshi, "Qiupu Sending Inside"——
I am now looking for the sun, and I have resigned my family for more than a thousand miles.
The lotus is tired of the water, but sends the big thunder book.
Although it is not the same hardship, they are separated from each other.
I entered Akiura for three years.
The red face is sad, and the white hair cannot be removed.
There are guests from Liang Yuan, carrying five-colored fish.
Open the fish to get the word, ask me how to do it?
Although the road to the country is obstructed, the meaning is not different.
Li Bai was forty-six years old when he married Zong, and after marriage, he settled down in Liangyuan, Songcheng, and the two gathered less and left more. Judging from the poem, the Zong clan trustee of Liang Yuan sent a letter to Li Bai, and Li Bai wrote this poem in reply after receiving the letter. It is not difficult to see that the two love each other deeply, and the love of love jumps on the paper.
During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai was also displaced like many ordinary people and left his hometown. He and his wife Zong Shi took refuge in the south, and once left a poem "Five Songs in the Road of Death". In the poem, he lamented: "Yunhan Valley is like a jade pass, when will it survive?" "It can be seen that they were in a difficult situation at that time. However, after suffering, their feelings are deeper. Later, when Li Bai was unjustly accused of entering the Muyong Palace, the Zong clan did not abandon Li Bai and repeatedly went to entrust people to save him. Li Bai felt empathy for the suffering brought to his wife because of his imprisonment, and he once wrote a poem "Inside the Xunyang Fei" in prison from his wife's point of view.
Smelling and weeping, crying into the house.
Duo Jun and Cai Yan tearfully asked Cao Gong.
Zhideng Wu Zhangling, the past is inseparable from death.
Rugged stone path, folded into the clouds.
If you see each other and sigh, can you hear the mourning?
Zong shi was the last wife Li Bai married. Coincidentally, the first wife he married, Xu Shi, was also the daughter of Xiangmen. Some people say that he eats soft rice. Of course, this is nonsense, because he does not flatter the rich and the poor at all, does not tend to be inflamed and dependent, but despises the powerful. It is precisely because of this unique personality that he would rather die than his ideal of "serving the country" than "low-brow matters of power".
As the daughter of Xiangmen, the reason why Zong shi is willing to marry Li Bai is not only because he loves his poetry, but also because he has a common hobby with Li Bai. This common hobby is: "Learning the Tao and loving the gods." In his later years, Li Bai sent Zong Shi to Lushan to learn the Tao, and wrote "Sending Inside to Find Li Tengkong Two Songs". He said in the poem: "Many kings and daughters, learn the Tao and love the gods." Li Tengkong was the daughter of Li Linfu, the chancellor of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and also after Xiangmen, he became a Taoist priest on Mount Lu. It seems that in the Tang Dynasty, the government and the public admired Taoism.
The marriage between Li Bai and Zong Shi due to "buying a wall with a thousand gold" can be said to have originated from poetry and ended in the Tao. If life is a practice, then this love affair may be an important part of their cultivation path.