The 4th Issue of Literary Observation recommended reading | Li Zhanyan: The Most Affectionate Li Bai

Li Bai, who is the most affectionate

Author: Li Zhanyan

Shi xian Li Bai is a person with the most affection, he is true, bold, persistent, unpretentious, rich in feelings, and acting spontaneously. He is positive and optimistic, otherworldly, unconventional, living freely, willfully walking on the beautiful rivers and mountains of China, and as a poet, he exerts his pride. He not only has an open mind, but also a strong heart. The poems written are naturally new, tall and handsome, energetic and bold, and their brilliance is full of flames and straight into Xiao han, which is thrilling. Yushu is windy and outstanding, this is his image in my mind. In the group of Poets of the Tang Dynasty, without Li Bai, the hundred gardens of Tang poetry would be eclipsed. Li Baicai is the most bold and dashing hero in the poetry country, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he emits the highest and strongest voice of sheng Tang. He is unique, and his poetry is as bright and upright as his man. His words are filled with the unique atmosphere of his life and personality everywhere, and the energetic poem is the self-presentation of the tension of life, full of original texture.

A psalm that can pluck the heartstrings must be a voice emanating from the depths of the soul. The role of poetry has been highly valued since ancient times. Shang Shu Yao Dian Yun: "Poetry and Speech, Song Yong Yan, Sheng Yi Yong, Rhythm harmony." Eight tones are harmonious, there is no match, and the gods and men are harmonious. "Poetry can make coarseness warm, vulgarity elegant, and negativity positive. Reading Li Bai's poems often makes a withered heart flow with joyful blood and stir up waves of joy. As a flesh-and-blood person, Li Bai has a more tender and delicate side, and when we read "Knowing so tripping people's hearts earlier, how to know each other at the beginning", we were deeply moved. These two poems are from Li Bai's "Autumn Wind Words" that express the pain of lovesickness, and the whole poem is as follows:

Autumn breeze clear, autumn moon bright.

The fallen leaves are still scattered, and the jackdaws are re-perched.

When do you know when you see each other? At this time, this night is embarrassing!

Enter my acacia door and know that I am bitter.

Sauvignon Blanc memories, Sauvignon Blanc infinity.

Knowing that it was so stumbling, how could it be that they did not know each other in the first place.

The words are affectionate to read, and it is also very easy to understand-

The autumn wind was blowing, and there was a cold smell. In the high and cool season of autumn, the bright moon is clear and dustless. The wind blows the leaves, gathering and scattering, and the jackdaws that have been perched are startled by the bright moon. Remembering all the beautiful things that I have met and known, I can't help but sigh when I can see each other again, but I am alone in this scene, which makes me feel sorry! In the world, love is the most soul-destroying and the most painful. Only those who walk through the door of acacia and are deeply immersed in it will understand the taste. Eternal acacia, eternal memory, short acacia but also endless. Knowing that acacia is so tiring, it is better that we did not know each other in the first place.

It is said that most of the poems are works of sad spring and sad autumn, and Li Bai's poem is a typical work of sad autumn, lyrical love between men and women, with deep intentions. On the late autumn night, looking at the moon and nostalgic, I sighed helplessly.

Love, the door of love, is the most entangled in the human world. In this bustling human world, in this strange red dust, there are always worries about life and death, and there are soul-destroying thoughts. Disturbing the world, who is not sincerely obedient under the "Acacia Gate"? Who isn't entangled in the "Acacia Gate"? Who hasn't tasted the taste of love with seven passions and six desires, love and hate? Love is soul-destroying, everyone loves it, and everyone is timid. "Enter my acacia door, know that I miss each other bitterly", so "acacia" has become an indescribable disease, from the inside to the outside, from far to near, from male to female, from ancient times to the present, has been a continuous cycle, countless people are willing to be poisoned, willing to sink, willing to be drunk and not awake. Si cross a sea of love, sweet, obsessive, serious, sour all kinds of indulgent miscellaneous tastes, who can transform into a "love bird" and fly to the other side of happiness? Li Bai said frankly: "Sauvignon Blanc remembers blanc, Sauvignon Blanc is infinite." Knowing that it was so stumbling, how could it be that they did not know each other in the first place. "This love is a blind love of the medicine, love when love, love is not love, there is also love; can not see love, after meeting is also lovesickness; awake also lovesickness, dreams also lovesickness, after lovesickness, or lovesickness." Tied up, can't put down, can't eat, can't sleep, this is the common disease of acacia, the same form, the same mood, why bitter acacia? Acacia torture, that is better than not acacia, into? This is not up to you--"You will not miss each other in your life, you will miss each other, and you will be harmed by lovesickness." "Will it be acacia, who can control the source of this acacia, just like the old tree suddenly sprouted new shoots, just like the spring wind of "grass color is close but nothing". In the world that cannot be closed, do not say want to think or not, willing and unwilling to be pretentious, people in this world, will not miss each other, everyone will harm each other. Don't miss each other, only don't know each other at the beginning.

There are many poems that can prove Li Bai's love, among which I prefer his "Sauvignon Blanc". The full poem is as follows:

Sauvignon Blanc, in Chang'an.

Luowei autumn cry golden well, slight frost miserable cold.

The lone lamp was not clear, and the curtain looked at the moon and the sky and sighed.

Beauty is like a flower across the clouds.

There is a high sky above the blue sky, and there is a wave of water below.

The heavenly long road is far away from the soul flying bitterly, and the dream soul is not difficult to close the mountain.

Sauvignon Blanc, heart-wrenching.

Li Bai's "Sauvignon Blanc" has a love atmosphere of mountain alliance and sea oath, which is beautiful, and a beauty is the condition of thousands of years, becoming eternal, making the obsessed children a classic.

The poet said: The person I miss, she is in the bustling imperial capital of Chang'an. Crickets chirp in the well bar in autumn, and frost and cold have fallen, making the bamboo mats look cold and cold. The lonely lamp was dimmed, but the lonely person fell into a very strong thought that seemed to be inseparable. When he was bored, he could only roll up the curtains and look up at the moon in the sky, hoping to get comfort in this way, but he could only sigh in sorrow. It is like a flower beauty, like on a cloud, in a distant place. Where she was, there was a distant sky above and the flowing water of a long river of churning waves below. The heavenly road is too long, torturing the soul, how can I fly over the layers of mountain passes. Thoughts are like wisps of cotton, intertwined with each other, continuously, touching my feelings.

"Sauvignon Blanc, in Chang'an." Chang'an gave Li Bai too many good memories. That year, when he went to Chang'an, he met He Zhizhang, an old poet who was then a secretary and a young supervisor, and the old poet personally came to visit him, which gave him great touch. He Zhizhang was impressed by his flowing and handsome wind god, and after reading his "Shu Dao Difficulty", he was even more amazed, calling him "Who Immortal"—a title that did not go away, and since then Li Bai has been called "Who Immortal" and "Poetry Immortal". He Zhizhang admired Li Bai, took off the golden turtle he was wearing for wine, and drank it together. Since then, the two have been drinking together almost every day, and Li Bai's reputation has been greatly enhanced.

In Chang'an, Li Bai could not forget the Princess Yuzhen who introduced him to the imperial court, and his path to becoming an official, Princess Yuzhen's recommendation was indispensable. The Tang Dynasty was a very inclusive country, and there were many ways to seek fame. Li Bai came to the capital Chang'an in the hope of getting a recommendation and embarking on the road of becoming an official, so Li Bai paid tribute to Princess Yuzhen, whose purpose was very clear, that is, he hoped that through her strength, he would ascend to a high temple and help him realize the political ideal of "Ji Cangsheng and An Sheji".

Princess Yuzhen was the daughter of Emperor Ruizong of Tang and the sister of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who believed in Taoism and became a Taoist priest during the Xuanzong period, with the title of Supreme True Man, and later given the title of Master Zhiying. At the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, in order to consolidate and deify their own power, the rulers posthumously recognized Li Er, the ancestor of the Taoist family, as the ancestor of Li Tangzong, and designated Taoism as the "state religion", and later included Daoju as a type of examination in the imperial examination. The reason why Li Bai wanted to get involved with Princess Yuzhen was that he wanted to take the road of entering the world from Taoism. Wei Hao said in the "Preface to the Collection of Li Hanlin", "Bai Jiuju Emei, and Dan Qiu held the Master of Ying, and Bai also entered Hanlin because of this." From this record, we know that the key person who recommended Li Bai to enter the imperial court was Princess Yuzhen.

Li Bai is a person who knows how to be grateful, who never forgets Princess Yuzhen, and expresses a different embrace in the poem "Yuzhen Immortal Words" written to her. The full poem is as follows:

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.

This is the poem when Li Bai and Princess Yuzhen met. "Mingtian Drum", "Tengshuanglong", "Get Electric Xingyun" and the like, the Yuzhen Princess is written as romantic as the Nine Heavenly Nieces, Li Bai is untamed by nature, born a flying and jumpy, affectionate character, writing poetry praise, when in his mind the weight is not ordinary.

Under the strong recommendation of the great poets He Zhizhang and Princess Yuzhen, Li Bai was received by Tang Xuanzong and appointed as a Hanlin scholar.

Chang'an is Li Bai's proud place.

At this time, he ate a large piece of meat and drank a lot of wine, which was exactly "the son of heaven who did not come to the ship and claimed that his subject was a wine immortal." In "Three Songs of Qingping Tune", he wrote about Yang Guifei, comparing this heavenly immortal beauty to a peony flower with a beautiful atmosphere, and vividly expressed the beauty of her manners. In the Miscellaneous History of the Pine Window written by Li Jun of the Tang Dynasty, there is a novel "Li Bai's Poem Praise for Yang Guifei", which records the elegant affair of Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei's appreciation of peonies in the Agarwood Pavilion:

In kaiyuan, the first heavy wood peony medicine is forbidden, that is, the present peony also. "Kaiyuan Tianbao" flower Humu peony medicine, this record of cloud forbidden for peony flowers. Those who have obtained four red, purple, light red, and white are transplanted in front of the Xingqing Pond East Agarwood Pavilion. Flowers will bloom, and the superior moon night will summon Princess Taizhen to follow the steps. The zhao specially selected the disciples of the pear garden, and the sixteen colors of happiness. Li Guinian, in the name of singing for a while, held a sandalwood in his hand and wanted to sing before the crowd enjoyed it. Shang: "Appreciate the famous flowers, to the concubines, yan use the old musical words for?" So he ordered the turtle year to hold a golden flower note to announce the Hanlin scholar Li Bai and enter the third chapter of the "Qingping Tune". Bai Xin accepted the edict, and the bitterness was not solved, because of the help of the pen: "The cloud wants to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze is dewy and thick." If it were not for the jade mountain head, it would meet the Yaotai Moon. "A branch of red dew condensed incense, cloud rain Wushan broke the intestines." Borrowing from the Han Palace who has to be like, poor Fei Yan leans on the new makeup. "The famous flowers poured out of the country and the two sides, and the king looked at it with a smile." Explain the infinite hatred of the spring wind, and the agarwood pavilion leans on the north to dry. "The Year of the Turtle advances with words, and the disciples of the Pear Garden are about to adjust the silk bamboo, so they promote the Year of the Turtle to sing. Princess Taizhen held the Seven Treasures Cup of Po Li, drank The Wine of Xiliangzhou, and smiled very well. The upper tune of the jade flute is to lean on the song, and each song will be changed, and the sound will be delayed. Too real to drink, decorated with embroidered scarves to worship the intention. The Year of the Turtle is often said to be of the Five Kings, and the one who remembers to win by song has no reason for this, or it is also the ultimate ear of the moment. Gu Li Hanlin is especially different from his bachelor. Will Colliers finally take the six slits of the Uphi as a deep shame. On the other day, Concubine Taizhen re-chanted the previous words, and Lux joked: "The first time it was said that the concubine complained that Li Bai was deep into the bone marrow, what fist was like this?" Princess Taizhen was shocked: "Can Master He Hanlin insult people like this?" Lux said, "Flying swallows refers to concubines, which is very despicable." "It's quite true. The Upper Trier wanted to kill Li Baiguan, but the pawn was stopped by the palace.

Because the poem "Three Pieces of Qingping Tune Words" gave Colliers the excuse to frame Li Bai, it turned out that Li Bai, who had always despised the powerful, had already offended GaoLishi. The Old Book of Tang says of Li Bai: "Taste the drunkenness of the temple, induce the foot to make Gao Lishi take off his boots, and rebuke him." The New Book of Tang says in more detail: "Bai tasted the emperor, drunk, made Gao Lishi take off his boots, Li Shi Su Gui, shame, plucked his poems to stimulate Yang Guifei, the emperor wanted to be official Bai, and the concubine was depressed." Gao Lishi got this opportunity, and said to Guifei that in Li Bai's poem, "Yunyu Wushan" means that the joy is not long, comparing Guifei to Zhao Feiyan, and satirizing her frivolity and misleading the country. Yang Guifei believed Gao Lishi's words and became jealous of Li Bai, and under the slander of the favored concubine and the exclusion of the adulterer, Tang Xuanzong gradually alienated Li Bai. He was slowly disappointed in such an emperor, such a court. He understood that his ideals could not be realized in such a political environment, and he began to yearn for the free life he had before. Therefore, Li Bai wrote to request "returning the mountain", and Xuanzong naturally "granted permission", which is what we often call "giving gold and returning it". Three years after Tianbao, Li Bai left Chang'an. Chang'an became the land of Li Bai's disappointment. His political ideals were shattered.

"Sauvignon Blanc" was Li Bai's work after he left Chang'an.

The poet said: My thoughts are in Chang'an, and there are my beloved beauties in Chang'an. The beauty of Chang'an, the poet did not explicitly write. So what does this beauty that can make Shi Xian Li Bai move her heart look like? "Beauty is like a flower across the clouds", from here, we should understand that the beauty in Li Bai's heart must be high-end atmospheric grade, such as the amazing picture, the beauty to the clouds. Therefore, even though there are thousands of time and space distances, we can still feel the real and beautiful atmosphere emitted by her body, which is amazing. "Only peonies are really national colors", such a beautiful person, when there is a bright smile, has real emotions. Only in this way can the arrogant Li Bai have a spiritual resonance.

In classical Chinese poetry, the expression of love is often heart-wrenching and poignant, and only Li Bai writes emotions very imposingly.

That year, Li Bai triumphantly came to Chang'an, and the naïve poet thought that he could realize his lofty ideal of serving the country, because Tang Xuanzong was not thin to him, appreciated his talent, and left him in the Hanlin Academy. The talented poet cherished this opportunity and did his best to do things for the emperor and write poems for Yang Yuhuan, hoping that his talents would be truly displayed. But he thought that the problem was too simple, and ignored an important problem, that is, although the Tang Dynasty was open, the internal hierarchy was still quite strict. In particular, important administrative and military powers were in the hands of the emissaries or nobles of prominent families. On seniority, Li Bai is far from enough. How can such a reality enable him to achieve his ideals? Before coming to Chang'an, Li Bai enjoyed a high reputation. Therefore, Li Bai, who could not "bend his waist", used his talent and upright character to borrow wine and poetry, and without scruples offended the powerful ministers of the current dynasty, and finally ended up with the end of "giving gold and returning it" and leaving Chang'an. However, Chang'an has his friends, his beloved people -- here are his worries, there are his thoughts, but everything has turned into the smoke and dust of history. The poet is a sentient and righteous person, and when he leaves Chang'an, he always thinks of him from afar. At this time, the past was vividly remembered, haunting the heart, steaming, fermenting into a full of lovesickness, pervading in thousands of rivers and mountains, and finally he found that he loved Chang'an so much, loved everything there, and loved the people there. Beauty is like a flower across the clouds, not only writing about beauty, but also writing about everything in Chang'an. Only a genius with a proud heart like Li Bai will write beautiful people with a broad mind, like flowers bathed in moonlight.

Some people say that the poem "Sauvignon Blanc" expresses Li Bai's political frustration, and this interpretation is also correct. If life could never be reached, he would not have thoughts, but once, he was so close to Chang'an, and he felt the prosperity and heartbeat of the empire in the heart of Datang, and now it was like a cloud.

But I still use people's love experience to appreciate Li Bai's "Sauvignon Blanc". Who is this beauty in the poem? Maybe it was the Hu Ji beauty who served wine in the Chang'an liquor store, maybe it was the Princess Yuzhen who had helped him, maybe it was all, the woman who could enter Li Bai's eyes, in the capital Chang'an, presumably there were only a few.

Saying that Li Bai is a person of great affection can also be found in another of his poems, "Long Remembrance". Some versions of the poem are titled "Gifting Away". The full poem is as follows:

When the beauty is there, the flowers are full, and the beauty is gone to spend the rest of the bed.

The embroidery in the bed has been rolled up, and it has been smelling for three years.

The incense did not perish, and the people did not come.

Acacia yellow leaves fall, white dew wet moss.

The poem begins with two poems, "When the beauty is full of flowers, the beauty is empty after the beauty goes", it is written that the beauty is "in time" and "after the departure" of the soul of the huge gap. When the beauty is there, the birds are singing and the hall is full of brilliance; after the beauty is gone, the flowers wither, leaving only an empty bed. This is not to say that there are really flowers blooming in the hall, but because of the existence of beauty, the flowers of the soul are colorful and red. There is a beautiful person in my hall, full of radiance and lingering incense. Because there are beautiful people in the room, there are beautiful people's words and smiles, and there are beautiful gaits, everything will come alive, move, and there will be flowing charm and color. Only because the beauty is on the side, the flowers are colorful, the sky is blue, the wind is soft, and the rain is moist. Now, things are not human, there is only an empty bed, and I don't want to touch it again.

The poet does not say anything else, but chooses an empty bed to highlight the loneliness of the beauty after leaving, which is very ingenious. Seeing the bed, what did he think? He probably thought of the joy of the bed, the ice muscles and jade bones of the beauty, the gentle entanglement of the beauty, and the shyness and soft language of the beauty. When the beauty was in his arms, how many soul-destroying nights he spent. The good night is short, and the scenes of love and companionship have now turned into dreams. When the beauty is there, the happier and happier she is, the more lonely and longing she is after she leaves. After the beauty left, the embroidered quilt on the bed was also rolled up, and after three years, you can still smell the beauty's afterscent. The aroma was endless, but the beauty never returned. How many lovesick, how many sleepless nights, day after day, year after year. In fact, it is not that the aroma is really still there, it is the smell confusion of the acacia person who misses the extreme. The empty bed that has been shelved for three years and the embroidery quilt that has been rolled up for three years is unlikely to still have the aroma. Flowers and beds are heartless, but once they are related to someone they like, they are coated with emotion. Therefore, Du Fu will have "feeling the flowers splashing tears". In the Book of Poetry, Shao Feng, Jing Nu, the young man waited for the woman he wanted, did not wait, scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, fiddled with the grass that the woman had given him, and sang alone: "Self-shepherding to return to the grass, beautiful and different." The bandit girl is beautiful, and the beauty is the mussel. In his eyes, the grass was surprisingly beautiful, but it was not that the grass was really beautiful, but that the beauty gave it to him, full of love.

Li Bai not only wrote poems for famous people, he also wrote poems for ordinary people, such as singers and prostitutes, whom he admired and wrote poems to praise.

In his lifetime, Li Bai wrote more than 900 popular poems. When Li Bai was sixty-one years old, he came to Jinling alone to play and met Jinlingzi. One night, he watched the autumn colors of Jinling through the window and couldn't help but stroke the piano and sing. The song attracted a young and beautiful singer who was willing to accompany Li Bai. To be able to walk with this beautiful woman is a great pleasure in life! The full poem of "Shi Jin LingZi" is as follows:

Jinling City East whose son, eavesdropping on the sound of the piano in the blue window.

Flowers fell from the sky and crossed the West River with people.

Chu Ge Wu was not successful, and seemed to be unable to be the most affectionate.

Xie Zhengyi asked Dongshan prostitutes to join hands with Lin Quan everywhere.

Jinlingzi is the Jinling Trick. This trick is not a prostitute, but an artist with a certain talent. This poem describes the delicate and beautiful mood of the Jinling woman, "falling flowers in the sky", praising the geisha Jinlingzi as if she had floated from the sky as a beautiful woman, with extraordinary charm. Such a beautiful woman is willing to cross the water of the West River with the poet. Li Bai had once been devoted to this talented and good-looking singer. Feeling sorry for each other, Li Bai invited this beautiful woman to join hands in Lin Quan's best place to enjoy.

Li Bai's life's leisure and happiness are reflected in the poem, this is the poetry immortal Li Bai, this is the true temperament of Li Bai, love life, love life, love all beautiful.

When we read Li Bai's poems, we read the real Sheng Tang Dynasty.

Li Bai has experienced ups and downs, his thoughts are complex, and he is not only a genius poet, but also has the temperament of a ranger, an assassin, a hermit, a Taoist, a strategist and so on. The three ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and Ranger are all embodied in him. The poems left by Li Bai to future generations show the mental journey of his life and are artistic portrayals of the social reality and spiritual life of the Sheng Tang Dynasty.

Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls into the storm, and the poems become weeping ghosts", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poetry. As a romantic poet, Li Bai mobilized all romantic techniques to achieve a perfect unity of content and form of poetry. Li Bai's poems are rich in self-expression of subjective lyricism is very strong, and the expression of feelings has a momentum of overwhelming mountains and seas.

We can learn a lot from Li Bai, such as his self-confidence, such as his pride, such as his truth. In everyone's heart, there will be a beautiful faraway place. Like Li Bai, do not wronged yourself, and live yourself as a person of the most affectionate nature. Longing for the peace and tranquility under the blue sky, so that the life of the gentle more poetic, this is a desire for beauty. Although, in this world, no one can escape the captivity of the universe, but the beauty is eternal, the poetry is always there.

Li Bai is a person with a free heart, he longs for freedom, he pursues freedom. The free spirit, which filled his blood, enabled him to face the ups and downs of his career with ease. After encountering setbacks in reality, only the mountains and rivers can comfort his soul and tolerate his true disposition like a child. When he let go of the pursuit of fame and fortune, he jumped on horseback, faced the wind, and walked to the sky and the earth, the mountains and rivers. Pulled by this straightforward free heart, he left many beautiful poems wherever he went. This is what the mountains and rivers have given him, and in order to thank the mountains and rivers for their selfless gifts, he repays them with beautiful poems. He regarded the vast expanse of real space as the home of his soul. It was heaven and earth that gave him the inspiration for poetry and achieved his reputation as a "poetry immortal". The reason why Li Bai can become the pride of the Chinese nation is because the cultural elements displayed in his poetry have the most Chinese characteristics, including the factors of the Yellow River culture and the factors of the Yangtze River culture. These two cultures are the great beauty of Chinese culture, which form infinite abundance and richness in the collision and mutual integration of each other. The Chinese nation respects him as a poetic immortal, which proves that our nation yearns for and respects poetry, and reflects the cultural self-confidence of our Chinese nation.

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This article was published in Yanhe Magazine, Issue 4, 2022

Literature Observation column