Li Bai has become a spokesman for Chinese Tang poetry culture for thousands of years, and almost half of the Tang poems he learned as a student were written by Li Bai. If your impression of him is only a poet, then you can underestimate Li Bai, the textbook did not tell everyone, Li Bai is a rich and handsome man, from the time he was a teenager to fight the sword to the end of the world, leaving behind many popular ancient famous sentences, but also because of his appearance and talent, married the granddaughter of the imperial court's important minister Xu Yuanshi. However, this poet immortal, who seems to have a smooth life, suffered a lot of hardships in middle age and old age, and his spirit and vigor will always remain in his youth and youth.
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Li Bai was born in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, the prosperous world created his romantic poetry style, and the poet seems to be born with the talent of "reading ten thousand books", Li Bai can recite the "Liujia" at the age of five, and when he entered the private school at the age of ten, he was already familiar with the hundred families of the sons, and was known as "the children of others".
When he was 14 years old, Li Bai saw the scene of the new recruits bidding off, and he had the feeling to make his first poem "The First Moon": "Happy string orchestra, sad to kill the war marcher", when the farewell party, everyone was immersed in the music of the silk bamboo orchestra, only Li Bai felt the soldier's pity, after all, for the first time to kill the enemy, the heart is a little cowardly.
Inspired by the courage of the warriors to charge forward, Li Bai also fell in love with horseback archery, and throughout his life the sword did not leave his body, if born in the war-torn Spring and Autumn Warring States, Li Bai should always charge forward. "Strike and drink wine, sword song yi shui mei", "willing to put the sword under the waist, straight to chop Lou Lan", "leaning on the sword to increase the sigh, the placket is also self-pity", this is Li Bai in his youth, middle age, and old age respectively made poems, from which you can see that the bumpy experience made him exhausted, but it did not erase his dream of using the sword in his hand to kill the enemy and repay the country.
Li Bai's family was very wealthy, and according to existing historical sources, his father Li Ke inherited the money of his ancestors and came to settle in Sichuan, further expanding the family property. Several of Li Bai's brothers were also business people, and it can be learned from the poems written by Li Bai later that they were doing business all over the country, but he was an outlier.
Li Bai's former residence
When Li Baibaishi visited the governor of Yizhou, Shi Suting, when Su Tingpai read that "in the sound of dogs barking in the water, peach blossoms with rain", he couldn't help but exclaim: "Although this son is young, in time, he can be compared with Sima Xiang." The evaluation of the long history made Li Bai more determined, he did not want to be the businessman his father hoped for, he wanted to fight the sword to go to the end of the world, see the magnificent scenery of the mountains and rivers in the world, and leave behind the masterpieces of the popular population.
In the twelfth year of the new century, Li Bai "went to the country with a sword and resigned his relatives to travel", played all the way from Chengdu to Mount Emei, wrote the famous "Climbing Mount Emei", in 725 Li Bai bid farewell to his family at Jingmen Ferry, and with feelings, he wrote "Farewell to Jingmen", and never returned to his hometown. Soon after, Li Bai came to Wuhu, Anhui Province, looked at Tianmen Mountain on the river surface, and wrote a heroic poem of "Tianmen interrupts the opening of the Chu River, and the blue water flows east to this return".
The idiom we are most familiar with, "Green plum bamboo horse, two small no guesses", is exactly a poem left by Li Bai in Changganli, the most prosperous place on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Jinling (present-day Nanjing). At that time, Li Bai met a woman and listened to her tell the story of her and her husband from love to marriage, so she splashed ink and wrote the famous "Two Songs of Long Gan Xing": "Lang rode a bamboo horse, went around the bed to get green plums, lived together in Changganli, and the two little ones did not suspect."
After that, Li Bai traveled all over Jiangnan, climbed the Gusutai of the Wu Kingdom, and also toured the ancient ruins of the Yue Kingdom, writing "Sutai Langu" and "Yue Zhonglan Gu" respectively, and the words revealed the irony of The King of Wuyue indulging in the sound of mesmerizing. In 726, Li Bai went north to Ruzhou, Henan, and soon after arrived in Anlu, Hubei Province, passing through Lumen Mountain in Xiangyang, he heard that the landscape and water pastoral poet Meng Haoran lived in seclusion here, so he gladly went to visit.
Although Meng Haoran is 12 years older than Li Bai, but the two have similar interests, go to the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang, Hubei Province, Li Bai originally wanted to write a poem in the Yellow Crane Tower, but found that the poet Cui Hao had already written "Yellow Crane Tower", and was very literary, so he laughed and gave up. After enjoying the scenery of Hubei, Meng Haoran prepared to take a boat to Yangzhou, and Li Bai wrote a well-known poem for him- "Send Meng Haoran to guangling".
Long dry
Li Bai is not only famous and admired by many women, but he is also very handsome, and Li Bai's little assistant Wei Hao described Li Bai's appearance in the "Li Hanlin Collection": "The eyes are bright, like a hungry tiger." It is said that Li Bai's eyes are shining brightly, and he has the momentum of a fierce tiger descending the mountain. Under the mediation of Meng Haoran and the Taoist priest Hu Ziyang, Li Bai entered the palace of Xu Yuanshi, a late imperial court official in Anlu, Hubei Province, and married his granddaughter Xu Shi, and the two lived together for ten years, with a son and a daughter.
Although Li Bai has always been a hero in the world, his ambition to serve the country has never changed. In 730, Li Bai came to Chang'an to visit the chancellor Zhang and said that he hoped that Zhang would help him enter the army, but the news was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no echo. Later, Li Bai went to see Princess Yuzhen and Xiangzhou Assassin Han Chaozong, but they did not get substantial help, and there was no way out of the sky, and Li Bai soon met he Zhizhang, who was his forgotten friend, who was then a waiter in the Ministry of Works.
He Zhizhang is more than 40 years older than Li Bai, he admires Li Bai's talent very much, although he can't help Li Bai meet the emperor, but under He Zhizhang's strong admiration, the whole Chang'an City knows Li Bai's talent, and there are many more "hardcore fans". However, there was still no way to repay the country, and Li Bai had to return to An Lu's home, but the blow of life came again. In 739, Li Bai's wife died, and Li Bai, who was grieving, arranged the aftermath for his wife and took his children to Donglu (present-day Jining, Shandong) to settle down, during which time he toured the land of Qilu and wrote the "Six Songs of You Taishan".
Sometimes luck will come inadvertently, Tang Xuanzong learned that there was such a great poet as Li Bai in the folk, and immediately summoned him to the palace, when Li Bai entered the palace, Tang Xuanzong "descended to greet him, and gave food to the seven treasure beds", personally fed Li Bai, ordered Li Bai to offer Hanlin, and wrote poems for him. Once Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei appreciated the peony, and invited Li Bai to write a poem with great interest, Li Bai wrote a chapter and wrote a poem to praise Yang Guifei as a heavenly woman, winning the appreciation of the emperor and the noble concubine. Li Bai had thought that he was one step closer to the dream of serving the country, but he was forced to leave the palace not long after.
wrestler's shoe removal
Li Bai despised the magnates and offended Yang Guozhong and Gao Lishi, and also asked Yang Guifei to give him ink and let Gao Lishi take off his boots when he was drunk, so that the red people around the emperor were naturally retaliated against. They framed Li Bai and deliberately wrote Yang Guifei in the poem as Zhao Feiyan, who had brought calamity to the country and the people, thus alienating the emperor from Li Bai, who saw that he had no place to stand in the palace and had no choice but to resign, and Emperor Xuanzong immediately agreed, and after giving him money, he let him out of the palace.
When Li Bai sent his friend Wang Yan to Sichuan to take up a post, he wrote "Shu Dao Difficulty", expressing his concern about his friend's dangerous appointment and his own worry about the hopelessness of his career. Later, when I wrote "Will Enter the Wine" when I was visiting Songshan, I also expressed this kind of worry, but it added to the confidence of "hanging on the clouds and sails to the sea".
However, the happy days also came to an abrupt end, in 756, The Yong King Li Lin rebelled, he invited Li Bai, who was living in seclusion in Lushan, to come out of the mountains and give him advice, Li Bai did not understand politics, but thought that whoever sat in the mountains was the same, and went out of the mountains to help the Yong King. After the rebellion was put down, Li Bai became the "Rebel King Yu Dang" and was sent into permanent exile in the Yelang Kingdom (present-day Tongzi, Guizhou). Fortunately, at that time, there was a great drought in the Guanzhong region, and the emperor had no choice but to pardon the world, so Li Bai escaped a disaster, and when he traveled to the White Emperor City, he felt a lot of emotions and wrote a poem "Early White Emperor City".
In 762, after such a toss, the elderly Li Bai was already poor and destitute, and had no choice but to defect to His uncle Li Yangbing, who was a county commander in Anhui, and soon after, when Li Bai, who was weak, reached the time of his death, he gave Li Yangbing the manuscript of his life's poems, asked him to help him write the preface, and died in the middle of drunkenness and half awakening.
Ming Dynasty imitation Li Bai manuscript
This young man triumphantly fought with his sword to the end of the world, the middle-aged poet who was not afraid of the destruction of the career of the powerful, and the turbulent and helpless poet in his later years finally came to the end of his life in a legendary way. But what he left to future generations was more than a thousand immortal works, as well as great poets with great ambitions in the world, and who have been as great as Li Bai since ancient times, are all immortal in the flesh, immortal in merit, and immortal in soul.