Li He (790–817), courtesy name Changji, was a native of Fuchang, Henan, and a descendant of Li Liang, King of Zheng, the uncle of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan.
Therefore, Li He often proudly called himself "Li Changji, the son of the Tang kings", but in fact, by the time of Li He's father Li Jinsu, he had already fallen into seclusion in Changgu, so later generations also called Li He "Li Changgu".
Comparable to poetry
There were many prodigies in the Tang Dynasty, and Li He was no exception, he could write poetry at the age of seven, and was also good at "writing sickness", and became famous in the capital Luoyang at a young age.
It is said that he often rode a donkey out, always carrying a worn-out bag on his back, walking on the road to see a good scenery or sudden inspiration, so he wrote it on a note, threw it into the bag, and then went home to sort it out.
Every time she returned home, her mother, Mrs. Zheng, opened the bag and found that the notes in the bag were full, and she said distressedly: "Is it possible for my son to vomit his heart for writing poetry?" When will we stop bothering so much? ”
It is also natural for a person with extraordinary talent and such painstaking creation, his works are earth-shattering. This is where the idiom "blood" comes from.
The "Ma Poem", written at the age of fifteen, was selected for primary school textbooks:
The desert sand is like snow, and the Yanshan moon is like a hook.
How to be a golden brain, walk quickly and step into the autumn.
It's a high eight fight
If this five-word poem is not enough to reflect Li He's extraordinary talent, then the "Yanmen Taishouxing" written when he was eighteen years old is enough to make people shocked:
The black cloud pressed the city and wanted to destroy, and the armor light opened to the sun.
The sound of horns is full of autumn colors, stuffed with swallow fat condensation night purple.
Half a roll of red flags is easy to water, and the frost is heavy and cold.
Report to the emperor on the golden platform, and bring the jade dragon to die for the king.
The last two sentences of emotional sublimation were talked about by posterity. It was pointed out that in order to ensure the stability of the country, the imperial court was willing to recruit heroic people from all over the world with heavy funds. It emotionally shows the determination of the soldiers to go to the battlefield and fight for the country even if they are martyred.
It is said that it was this poem that made him acquaint with Han Yu and Huangfu Xiang. Huangfu Xiang, who has always been arrogant, went to Li He's house under the leadership of Han Yu, and Huangfu Xiang saw Li He and said very unceremoniously: "I heard that you are invincible, I don't believe it, so please write a poem on the spot with our visit as the title!" ”
When Li He heard this, he smiled slightly, thought a little, gladly picked up the pen, and wrote "Gao Xuan Guo":
The weaving is as green as green onions, and the gold ring is pressed and swaying.
The sound of the horse's hooves rumbles in the ears, and the horse is like a rainbow under the entrance.
Yun is a Tokyo talent, the article Jugong.
Twenty-eight Su Luo's heart, nine essences shine throughout.
In front of the temple, the sound is empty, and the pen is made up for the heavens.
Pang Mei Shuke feels Qiupeng, who knows that dead grass gives birth to gorgeous style.
I will hang my wings and possess the underworld today, and he will not be ashamed to be a dragon in the day.
This poem was composed by Li He in front of Han Yu and Huangfu Xiang. Huangfu Xiang looked at it and replied, "Immortal language, Li Bai can't reach!" ”
Didn't get the imperial examination
Eighteen-year-old Li He was about to take the entrance examination when his mother died, so he had to go home to observe filial piety for three years.
At the end of the three-year filial piety period, twenty-one-year-old Li He came to the examination room, determined to win. However, before the exam began, the exam qualification was suddenly canceled.
Some people accused him that his father's name had the word "Jin", and that "Jin" and "Jin" were homonymous, and that he should "avoid the patronymic's name" and not take the Jin Shi exam.
It is said that Li He offended Yuanshu and was retaliated against.
This incident hit the proud Li He very hard, so he left the capital angrily, and since then, his poetic style has changed greatly, and grotesque artistic conceptions have frequently appeared in the poem.
Although he became a minor official with the help of his friends, he saw that his promotion was hopeless, his body was thin, and his psychology was also very fragile.
Li He, who was not willing to sink and was not willing to sink, traveled south again, hoping to be reused. But the result was that "the personnel in Kyushu are like this", Li He was disappointed again, angrily resigned from the post of "Fenglilang", and went home to recuperate.
But that heart that is not willing to be mediocre is always restless. The capital can't do it, the south can't do it, Li He suddenly had a surge of blood, and he wanted to go to the frontier battlefield to make meritorious achievements, for this reason, he also wrote a famous poem:
Why don't the men take Wu Hook and charge Guanshan Fifty States.
Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if a scholar is a marquis of ten thousand households?
After writing, he threw his pen and got up and headed north. Li He did not succeed in the northern wind and snow, and his condition worsened again. After this toss, he sighed: "I am twenty years old, and I am sad all my life. ”
Li He, who was unable to get out of bed after returning home, saw someone descending from the sky, holding an edict and summoning him to heaven.
The man said, "Although there is no human joy in heaven, there is no pain!" Thick white smoke came out of the window of Li He's bedroom, and the sound of cars sounded. When the smoke subsided, the family found that Li He was already out of breath.
This year, Li He was only twenty-seven years old.
This is the description of the scene when Li He died in "The Legend of Tang Caizi", although absurd, it fully expresses the pity of the people of the time for Li He's untimely death.
Li He is another great romantic poet after Qu Yuan and Li Bai, and ghosts often appear in his poems, so he is also called "poetry ghost" by later generations.