Through years of research on Li Bai, Shandong writer Zhang Dachun found that Li Bai was not as chivalrous and heroic as people thought, and according to today's words, he did not live so coolly, even relatively humble, and always had the idea of escaping reality.
Li Bai's poem "Gift from His Brother Xiangyang Shaofu Hao" made in Kaiyuan: "... Tie the hair is not aware of things, and the friends are all heroic. But Qin was not rewarded, and attacked Jin Ning for merit?" There is also a version that immediately follows the sentence "In the white blade of the body, in the red dust of killing". The poet Wei Hao, who had a relationship with Li Bai, also said in the "Li Hanlin Collection Sequence" written after Li Bai's death that "there are few heroes and several people with blades in their hands". That is to say, whether it is Li Bai's own self-statement or the record of his former friends, Li Bai is a SHA master, and there is more than one person.
According to Zhang Dachun's analysis, the poet may have an element of bragging, but it is true that he almost went to prison. After injuring someone, Li Bai fled, and his father arranged for him to hide in a place called Daming Temple in Mianzhou. Li Bai's father also generously donated a lot of incense money to this temple, and hid here for two years, during which he came into contact with a large number of poetry books and articles, laying the groundwork for the achievement of later "poetry immortals".
After all, it is to avoid the wanted of the government, this rich second generation of perennial home can not return, but also achieved the "bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected frost on the ground, look up at the bright moon, look down at the hometown" of "quiet night thinking". People know that poetry is beautiful, but it is difficult to understand that a person who is responsible for a case has the pain and helplessness of not being able to return home.
Soon after leaving Daming Temple, Li Bai defected to Zhao Rui. Zhao was known as the Taoist and Zongheng of the Sheng Tang Dynasty because of his "Bo Yutao slightly longer than the astonishing world". That is, the author of the "Long and Short Classics", which is a collection of Confucian, Taoist, Legalist, Bingjia, Miscellaneous, Yin-Yang, and Zonghengjia thoughts. Li Bai studied here for another few years. This provided a methodology for Li Bai's future achievements.
Li Bai himself is a man of not bad money, he is a rich second generation, and his father is a businessman. At that time, he was a full-fledged local tycoon. Unfortunately, the social status of merchants was far lower than that of peasants, and they were not qualified to participate in scientific expeditions at all. This makes Li Bai, who has ideals but no way out, add a little more sorrow. At that time, the imperial examination was not perfect, not to say that anyone could apply for the examination, not only the status conditions were limited, but also someone had to recommend. If Wang Wei, who failed the first exam and then passed the high school examination, was able to realize his dream under the recommendation of Tang Xuanzong's sister Princess Yuzhen.
Li Bai, who has great political ambitions, is full of yearning for the center of power. Although he came from a humble background, after all, he had learned from Zhao Rui the strategy of handling things. Therefore, there is no shortage of ways. Through political marriage, he fell in love (as a door-to-door son-in-law), married the granddaughter of the former prime minister Xu Yuanshi, and had two children. In the meantime, Li Bai also lost no time in handing over the noble man of his life, that is, Sima Chengzhen, a generation of grandmasters who were often summoned to the palace by the emperor to preach the Taoist Fa.
It can be seen that Li Bai is not the extravagant ranger who regards fame and fortune as dung as everyone imagines, in fact, Li Bai has always hoped to enter the career path, hoping to be like many readers to "cultivate himself, unite his family, govern the country, and level the world." However, due to the problem of identity, Li Bai has not been reused by the imperial court, and in his later years, he has become a rebel by mistake. His life is still more tragic.
Among the more than 1,100 poems left by Li Bai, there is indeed no shortage of very good poems, "but there are also many bad poems, meaty poems, and even bragging poems" (writer Zhang Dachun). And like "Send a Friend", "Yellow Crane Tower To Send Meng Haoran to the Guangling Tomb", "Gift Wang Lun" is undoubtedly a fine product among the fine products. But more than 700 of these poems were written for socializing, that is, "to praise people, most of them are middle- and low-class bureaucrats, and most of them are kind of petty officials of the eight or nine streams" (writer Zhang Dachun). Sending his own poems everywhere to Li Bai seems to be the first, and this phenomenon is similar to this "before very rarely". These sending poems, on the contrary, have achieved Li Bai's great name, just like a living advertisement.
From the research of the writer Zhang Dachun, we see a real and not abstract Li Bai. It is inevitable that people will sigh with Fang Yue in the Song Dynasty:
Unsatisfactory things are often eight or nine, but they can be no different from the speaker!