Li Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had close contacts with Wang Wei, Gao Shi, Wang Changling and other people in the circle, "a famous person for a while, no one is important." Li Ji is good at side poems, music poems, and farewell poems, especially the most accomplished side poems, and the poetry name is quite high. However, in the vast historical data, there are very few records of his life and course.
The more detailed record of it comes from the "Biography of Tang Caizi", but it is only more than 100 words. It contains a description of his life: Li Ji, a native of Dongchuan. And this Dongchuan, there is also a controversy, some people think that it is Sichuan Mianyang Santai, some people think that it is Hebei.
And his biography seems to be mediocre: when he was young, his family was rich, renxia, befriended light and thin children, poured money and bankruptcy, and then studied hard for ten years, and in the twenty-third year of the new century, he was admitted to the jinshi and served as a lieutenant of Xinxiang County. This is the beginning and the end of his career, and the biography of Caizi records that he was "sexually sparse and tired of worldly affairs", probably because of this, Li Ji served for many years, and finally did not get promoted, and lived a reclusive life in his later years.
Although Li Yi's life experience is mediocre, it can probably be regarded as the envy of ancient readers: there have been poverty and wealth, both birth and entry into the world, although the official position is "only to the yellow silk", but also has its great materials, and there are famous poems passed down from generation to generation, which is also a kind of consummation.
In terms of poetry, Caizi commented on his "work poems, clear tone, rhetoric and beauty, miscellaneous songs and salty, and the longest metaphysics", which was highly evaluated. The "acquaintance" with him under the reading lamp stems from a particularly representative farewell poem of his: "Don't Chen Zhangfu". The first four verses of the poem are very fond:
In April, the south wind is barley yellow, and the jujube flowers are not falling and the leaves are long.
Qingshan saw him at dusk, and hissed out to miss his hometown.
Instead of making a parting lament, the atmosphere is brisk and open, which is unique in the parting poem. Li Ji's farewell poem is known for being good at describing characters, this poem is a representative work, if you are interested, you can find the whole poem to appreciate it.
Look at another heartfelt farewell poem: "Sending Wei Wanzhijing".
Singing away from the song to the wanderer, last night the frost first crossed the river.
Hongyan could not bear to listen, and the situation of Yunshan was a guest.
The color of the trees in Guancheng is approaching, and the anvil of the imperial garden is much louder.
Don't see the chang'an happy place, the air makes the years easy to stumble.
Parting from sorrow, deep affection, between the lines, who can't appreciate the taste of parting? "Hongyan can't bear to listen to it, and the situation in Yunshan is a guest", and the sorrow and loneliness on the way to the guest have come out from here. However, the poet did not immerse himself in such sorrows, and exhorted his friends not to dwell on the immediate parting and the joy of the time, but to seize the time and achieve a career.
His "Ancient Journey from the Army" is very famous:
Climb the mountain in the daytime to look at the beacon fire, and drink horses at dusk to cross the river.
Pedestrians fight in the wind and sand, and the princess pipa has many grievances.
Camping has no city, rain and snow have even the desert.
Hu Yan mourned and flew at night, and Hu Er's tears fell in both directions.
Hearing that the jade gate is still covered, you should drive your life away.
Years and years of war bones buried outside, empty peach into the Han family.
"Ancient Congjun Xing" as a representative work of his border poems, unrestrained and heroic, generous and sad, borrowing ancient irony from the present, with Han affairs to tang affairs: every year of conquest, the bones of the sacrificed warriors are buried outside the Guanwai, in exchange for the result, but the grapes from outside the Sai enter the Han family from the western region. The feeling of bitter cold and sadness suddenly arose.
In addition, his poetry describing music is also extremely vivid, enriching the artistic treasure house of ancient poetry, and exerting a certain influence on the musical poetry of Han Yu, Li He and others.
In general, Li Ji is a poet who "has high talent but no high position", and poetry is underestimated.