In the first year of Empress Chang'an (701), a child prodigy was born in Mianzhou, Jiannan Province, who was Li Bai, the future first poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Bai's poetry is majestic and ethereal, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He left nearly a thousand works in his lifetime. Reading these ten poems, we can see the trajectory and life experience of Li Bai's life.
1、
On Lee Yong
Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Dapeng rose with the same wind one day and soared up to ninety thousand miles.
If the wind stops and comes down, it will still be able to bump but be in the water.
When the world saw me, they sneered at me.
The father can still fear the future, and the husband can not be young.
This poem is the best work of Li Bai's early years, in the seventh year of the new century (719 AD), the 18-year-old Li Bai heard that Li Yong liked to make friends with famous people in Yuzhou and often recommended talents to the imperial court. Unwilling to take the route of the imperial examination, Li Bai went to pay respects, hoping to get Li Yong's recommendation.
However, Li Yong did not recommend Li Bai because he was informal, liked to talk loudly, and felt that he was not suitable for being an official. This made Li Bai very unhappy, and he felt that the talents recommended by Li Yong were not as good as his own. The reason why Li Yong did not recommend himself was because he, like ordinary people, could not see the real talent. So before leaving, he wrote this poem and ridiculed it.
2、
Farewell at the Jingmen Gate
Li Bai (Tang Dynasty)
Cross the far outside the Jingmen Gate and come to travel from the Chu Kingdom.
Yamayoi Plains Exhaustion, Enoi Daira Stream.
The flying mirror under the moon, yunsheng jiehai building.
Still pity the hometown water, send the boat for thousands of miles.
In 724 (the twelfth year of the new century), Li Bai left his hometown and embarked on a journey. When he came to Jingzhou, he was attracted by the unique scenery here. Coupled with the first farewell to his hometown, there is also some reluctance in his heart. Li Bai then integrated his reluctance for his hometown into the scenery and wrote this famous poem for thousands of years.
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Jade True Immortal Words
The Immortal of Jade True, when going to Taihua Peak.
In the morning, the sky drum is sounded, and the double dragon soars.
Don't quit the electricity, the cloud is gone.
When to enter the chamber, the Queen Mother should meet.
During Li Bai's stay in Anlu, he met with Pei Changshi of Honshu several times, hoping to get his recommendation, but all of them were rejected. In the twenty-third year of the new century (735 AD), Li Bai came to Chang'an and presented this poem to Princess Yuzhen through the Wei Wei Zhang Qing, wishing the princess an early incarnation.
Princess Yuzhen was very happy, and this was also the first time that Li Bai had approached the upper echelons of the ruler.
4、
Nanlingbei children enter Beijing
Baijiu newly ripened mountain return, yellow chicken pecking autumn positive fat.
Hu Tong cooked chicken and drank liquor, and children laughed and led people's clothes.
Singing drunkenly masturbates, dancing and setting for glory.
It is not too early to persuade ten thousand people to take advantage of the hardships, and to cross the horse and wade across the road.
The foolish woman bought the courtiers lightly, and Yu also resigned his family and went west to Qin.
Yang Tian laughed and went out, my generation is a basil person.
In 742 (the first year of Tianbao), under the repeated recommendations of Princess Yuzhen and He Zhizhang, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang finally issued an edict to let Li Bai enter the capital. Li Bai was very happy when he learned of this, and he thought that the time had come to show his grandeur, so he went home to bid farewell to his children and wrote this passionate ancient poem.
"Yang Tian laughed and went out, my generation is a basil person", this sentence can be described as a vivid depiction of Li Bai's proud demeanor. At this time, Li Bai was so conceited, how hesitant and full of ambition!
5、
Qingping tune one
The clouds want to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze blows Revlon.
If it were not for the jade mountain head, it would meet the Yaotai Moon.
Li Bai probably never dreamed that he could participate in state affairs in the imperial court, but Emperor Xuanzong actually gave him a position to enshrine Hanlin, and the content of his job was to write poetry and entertainment for the emperor.
One day, Tang Xuanzong was tired of listening to the old songs, so he sent someone to bring Li Bai into the palace to compose a new movement. When Li Bai saw Yang Guifei accompanying the emperor to admire the peony flowers in the Agarwood Pavilion, he took up his pen and wrote three poems of "Qingping Tune" on the golden flower note to praise Yang Guifei's beauty.
6、
The road is difficult
Golden bottle sake bucket ten thousand, jade plate zhen shame straight ten thousand dollars.
Stopping the cup and throwing the spoon can not eat, drawing the sword and looking around at a daze.
If you want to cross the Yellow River Ice Plug River, you will climb the Taihang Snow Mountain.
Idle to fish on the Bixi, suddenly take a boat to dream of the day.
It is difficult to walk, it is difficult to walk, how wrong is it, and now it is safe?
Long winds and waves will sometimes hang directly on the clouds and sails to the sea.
During his tenure as an offering to Hanlin, in addition to writing poems and music to the emperor, Li Bai was also related to the government of the dynasty, and he wrote to Emperor Xuanzong to advise him to focus on the government of the dynasty and not to sing and dance all day and delay the government.
But his letter offended two people, one was Xuanzong, and at this time Xuanzong had no intention of forging ahead, and he lay on the merit book of the Kaiyuan Dynasty. The other was Li Linfu, the current chancellor of power, and if Xuanzong returned to the court, then the situation in which he monopolized power would be broken.
Li Bai made the two most powerful people uncomfortable at the same time, then the result would be that he was uncomfortable, and Tang Xuanzong gave Li Bai qian two gold and put him back in the countryside. Li Bai was forced to leave Beijing, and at the banquet that his friends gave him, he wrote this article "Difficult to Walk" with indignation.
7、
Ascend to Jinling Phoenix Terrace
Phoenix on the phoenix stage phoenix tour, phoenix to the Taikong River self-flow.
WuGong flowers and grass buried in the path, the Jin Dynasty crown into an ancient hill.
Three mountains and half of the blue sky, two waters divided into egret islands.
There are always floating clouds that can cover the sun, and Chang'an is not seen to make people sad.
The specific time of writing this poem is unknown, but after Li Bai was expelled from Chang'an, he came to Jinling to ascend to the Phoenix Platform and wrote this poem from a high distance.
Because this poem is quite similar to Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower", many people say that this is a competition with Cui Hao. But Shihua felt that this statement was not very credible. Judging from the last sentence of the poem, he was still full of thoughts about being expelled from Chang'an. I wrote this poem to express my dissatisfaction and worries.
Since being "given gold and released" by Xuanzong, Li Bai has only remembered this one thing, and when a person puts all his obsession on one thing, other things will probably not be put in his heart again.
8、
Yongwang East Tour Song one
Yongwang Zhengyue went out of the east, and Tianzi remotely divided the Dragon and Tiger Banner.
The building ship was quiet in one fell swoop, and Jianghan turned into a swallow pond.
After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tang Xuanzong fled to Sichuan. Crown Prince Li Heng succeeded to the throne at Lingwu for Emperor Suzong of Tang. Emperor Xuanzong of Hanzhong appointed Li Xuan the Prince of Yong as the envoy of the four provinces of Shannan East Road, Lingnan, Qianzhong, and Jiangnan West Road.
The Yong King recruited talents and invited Li Bai to join his palace as an aide. In December of the first year of The German Dynasty (756), Li Xuan led the water army on an eastern tour of the east without authorization, and along the Yangtze River, Li Bai wrote eleven "Yongwang East Tour Songs" in the army to express his feelings of serving the country.
Speaking of this, I have to say that Li Yong did have the wisdom of the people, Li Bai's political vision was indeed not very good, the Yong King led the army to the east without authorization, similar to plotting rebellion, and finally was surrounded and suppressed by the imperial army, the Yong Wang soldiers were defeated and killed, and Li Bai was also imprisoned for the crime.
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Early onset of the White Emperor City
Between the clouds of the White Emperor, a thousand miles of Jiangling 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.
Li Bai was imprisoned by King Yong, and Tang Suzong once wanted to sentence him to death, but under the intercession of many ministers, the sentence was changed to exile Yelang. When Li Bai passed by the White Emperor City, he suddenly received the news of the amnesty of the imperial court, and was pleasantly surprised, and then took a boat east to Jiangling.
This "Early White Emperor City" is written in this context, and the poem writes about the boat that goes down the river, mainly highlighting the word brisk, which also reflects the brisk mood of Li Bai who returned from the disaster. At the age of 58, Li Bai was exiled to Yelang, abandoned his wife and children, and went for a long time, suddenly pardoned, and was able to return home, and his heart was naturally very happy.
10、
Pro Road Song
Dapeng Fei Zhen Eight Races, Zhongtian Destroyer is not good.
The rest of the wind stirred up the world, and You Fusang hung on the left side.
Later generations got this, and Jonny died who was out of the nose.
In the first year of the Tang Dynasty Zongbao Ying (762), Li Bai, who came to the end of his life, wrote the last poem of his life. You can think of it as an epitaph that Li Bai wrote for himself.
In his life, Li Bai had both lofty ideals and was very persistent in ideals, and pursued his ideals all his life. However, in the end, it was like a big bird with broken wings, and it could no longer fly.
This poem shows that when he reviewed and summarized his life, he revealed a deep regret for his incomparable longing for life and his failure to make the best use of it.