In everyone's heart, there is a Li Bai.
He is an uninhibited drunkard, a chivalrous man who walks the world with a sword, a poet immortal who writes storms, and an insurmountable peak in Tang poetry.
At the same time, he is also a literati who has never been aspiring, an ordinary person who has struggled all his life.
His lifelong wish is to be based on the court and display his ambitions, but he has worked hard all his life, but it is still in vain;
He likes to live a life of chic and uninhibited, happy and vengeful, but he has been bound by the world all his life, and has suffered countless cold receptions and ridicule.
However, no matter what dark twists and turns he has experienced, there is always a beam of light in Li Bai's heart that pulls him out of the darkness.
CCTV large-scale documentary "Li Bai" said:
When life is bumpy, Li Bai will also be lonely and sad. But he will not stay in the trough for a long time, but will quickly come out and recover into a confident Li Bai;
When he was almost sentenced to death and suffered the biggest blow in his life, he still recommended himself to the emperor, believing that he could still do very important things for the country.
It was this self-confidence and optimism that turned into a light in Li Bai's heart and supported him to complete his great life.
If you are also in a difficult life at this moment and feel confused about the future, you might as well follow me into the world of "Li Bai" and find the light in your heart.
1
Cold-eyed, no internal friction
Yishu once said: When people are unhappy, it is normal to be cold, and they must not be indignant.
Especially when you are not famous and have no status, it is even more common to suffer cold eyes.
In the documentary, it is said that Li Bai is rarely talented, and he has the ambition to help the world, but he can make people, he was born in a merchant family.
You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, the status of merchants was extremely low, and their children could not even participate in scientific examinations.
But Li Bai didn't believe in fate, in order to realize his ideals and ambitions, he left his hometown in his twenties and looked for people to recommend him.
As a result, the people who Li Bai worshipped didn't care about his talent at all, just seeing that he was the son of a merchant, they turned him away one after another.
Li Bai had no choice but to continue traveling, and once, he traveled to Yuzhou and met with Li Yong, the local assassin.
Li Yong didn't appreciate Li Bai's high-minded talk and didn't like the wildness in his bones, so he refused to recommend him.
Li Bai, who was despised again, did not doubt himself, but chose to revenge on the spot if he had a vengeance.
I saw him wave his pen and write down contemptuously the sentence "Father Xuan can still be afraid of the next generation, and the husband can not be young", and then walked away.
Li Bai's straightforwardness and courage are exactly what many people lack in reality.
As soon as they encounter setbacks, they fall into self-denial and collapse;
When I hear any criticism, I chew it repeatedly in my heart and doubt myself.
In the end, in the endless regurgitation, let his life be shrouded in a lingering haze.
Wang Yangming said it well: If you have a bad reputation, you can avoid it.
Since the eyes and ridicule of the outside world are inevitable, don't listen, don't think, and don't make waves in your heart.
When you stay away from internal friction, life will have the possibility of improvement.
2
In case of broken things, don't entangle
In life, everyone will encounter countless bad people and bad things.
But as the saying goes: one thought of hell, one thought of heaven.
When people's thoughts turn and the pattern of life becomes bigger, those broken things are not enough to sink people.
Although Li Bai repeatedly hit a wall in the worship, the name of the poem has already spread more and more.
Even the emperor in the deep palace heard his name, so he summoned Li Bai into the palace with an edict.
There is such a scene in the documentary.
After Li Bai entered the palace, Tang Xuanzong treated Li Bai with great courtesy.
not only greeted him personally, but also personally prepared soup for Li Bai and appointed him as an enshrinement to Hanlin.
Such a favor also made Li Bai jealous and ostracized by many people.
In addition, he is arrogant by nature and refuses to cater to those powerful.
They seized on Li Bai's informality, drunkenness and other things, and often slandered Xuanzong.
Xuanzong listened to it a lot, and his attitude towards Li Bai gradually became cold, and he was always unwilling to arrange for him to enter the official position of the court.
In this situation, Li Bai did not plead, nor did he continue to entangle with those villains, and after leaving a poem, he rode away from Chang'an.
The phoenix is hungry and does not peck at the corn, and the food is only Langyu.
You can compete with a flock of chickens and stingers for a meal.
In the poem, Li Bai compares himself to a phoenix.
The phoenix is noble by nature and will not compete with the chickens for food, but how can he compete with the villain?
So he chose to leave, pinning his affection on the mountains and rivers, looking for his world.
Zhou Guoping said: Life must have the wisdom of not competing.
A lot of bad things are like mud puddles on the road of life, the more angry you step into it, the more you will splash yourself all over the mud.
The best way to deal with this kind of personnel is to never get entangled and stay away as soon as possible.
When you get out of the shadow of the broken things, there will be countless rays of sunshine shining on you.
3
Be lonely, not sinking
Yi Zhongtian said: All great people are lonely.
For people like Li Bai, who have no ambition in their lives, loneliness is especially great.
After Li Bai left Chang'an, he had a long period of eleven years and traveled everywhere.
However, in the past eleven years, the roads he has traveled and the people he has met have not made Li Bai forget the pain of the past, but have made his heart more and more lonely.
When he climbed Xie Yulou, he wrote with sorrow: Draw the knife and cut off the water, the water will flow more, and raise a glass to eliminate sorrow and sorrow.
When he arrived at Yingyang Mountain, he raised his glass again to pour out his sorrows and chanted: The ancient sages were all lonely, and only the drinker left his name.
Until that day, Li Bai climbed Jingting Mountain.
He stayed on Jingting Mountain for a long time, watching the birds flying high and the white clouds drifting, Li Bai's heart suddenly flooded with a kind of tranquility that he had never felt before.
In this state of mind, he wrote down: I don't get tired of seeing each other, only Jingting Mountain.
In fact, where is the mountain understands people's feelings, it's just that Li Bai has learned how to get along with loneliness.
In the days that followed, Li Bai was no longer depressed because he was lonely, but he climbed the mountain and waterside alone, looked for secluded and secluded places, studied behind closed doors, and lived this period of unattended life with poetry and joy.
I once saw a question on Zhihu: What is loneliness?
There is a highly praised answer: In the interpretation of Chinese characters, Gu is the king, and Du is unique.
All kings have grown up from loneliness.
There will be a few moments in everyone's life that no one cares about.
Only when you survive those days of walking alone, you will also find that loneliness does not make you bitter and hateful.
On the contrary, it will make your life abundant and heavy.
4
After a low point, I don't suffer myself
The documentary "Li Bai" takes Li Bai's life trajectory as the main line and tells his great life.
After reading Li Bai's life experience, my biggest feeling is: life is really a process of ups and downs, twists and turns.
When Li Bai visited everywhere back then, he received a lot of cold eyes.
Later, it was finally run from time to time, and when I got the emperor's edict, but when I arrived in Chang'an, I was not reused by the imperial court, and I touched a nose of ash.
What awaits Li Bai next is a trough period of more than ten years.
"The avenue is like a blue sky, and I can't go out alone. ”
Li Bai's depression can be imagined, but after a short period of depression, Li Bai's hope in his heart began to lead him to roam in search of immortals and sail in the East China Sea.
After a period of time, the optimistic Li Bai began to reconcile with himself again and shook hands with the frustration of life.
It wasn't until 757 A.D. that King Yong's staff came to Lushan three times to find Li Bai, and his long-extinguished heart for politics was rekindled.
But this time, fate still didn't favor Li Bai.
Li Bai joined the shogunate of Yongwang, and it didn't take long for Yongwang Li Lan to be defeated and captured because of his rebellion.
And Li Bai was also arrested as a rebel, and then exiled to Yelang, and his life also fell into the deepest trough.
Fortunately, Li Bai was halfway through his journey when he suddenly received news of an amnesty from the imperial court.
After experiencing such a big twist and turn, Li Bai's heart only has the happiness and emotion of the rest of his life after the catastrophe: the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed over the ten thousand mountains.
So far, Li Bai has been relieved of all the lows and setbacks he has experienced in his life.
I've heard a passage:
Life is like a curve, there are peaks and valleys, there are spring breezes and downfalls.
Everyone who rushes out of the trough and reaches the peak has their "trough philosophy".
For a person like Li Bai, who has been in a trough for half of his life, his trough philosophy is more worthy of reference by everyone.
As the saying goes, adversity stops at the state of mind.
When you do a good job of improving your mood, even if life is full of ups and downs, you can take a light boat to cross.
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Yu Guangzhong once commented on Li Bai:
The wine entered the bowels of Hao, and seven points were brewed into moonshine. The remaining three points roared into sword qi, and the embroidery mouth spit out half of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Bai is undoubtedly the brightest star in the sky of the Tang Dynasty.
But if you read his experience, you will find that he is actually just like us, an ordinary person walking in a rough world.
Each of us will meet Li Bai at some point in our lives, read his poems, and understand his state of mind.
The light in his heart will also be projected into our hearts across the long river of history.
When we are struggling, when we are at a loss, this light will dispel the haze in our hearts and guide us all the way.
Source: WeChat public account "One book per night"
Author: Nightly CC
Editor: Wu Xicheng
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