One of the Demon Warrior Rebels, the floating pot space - Li Bai (originally one of the guardians of the Demon Hero, because when the peerless King of Freedom traveled all over the world, Li Bai admired his style of life and his temperament of evil heaven and earth)

Li Bai (701-762), known as Taibai, was a poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, a native of Changlong County, Mianzhou, Jiannan Province (now Jiangyou, Sichuan Province), and his ancestral home was Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province).

He is known as "Poet Immortal", "Poet Hero", "Wine Fairy", "Immortal Poet", etc., and is recognized as the most outstanding romantic poet in Chinese history. Li Bai and Du Fu are collectively known as Li Du, and Li Shangyin and Du Mu are also known as Little Li Du.

His works are whimsical, romantic, bizarre, and talented, and his poems are like flowing clouds and water, as if they were made in nature.

Li Bai's poems have been recited for thousands of years, and many poems have become classics, such as "Draw the knife and cut off the water, the water will flow more, and raise a glass to dispel sorrow and sorrow".

Li Bai's artistic achievements in poetry are considered to be the pinnacle of Chinese romantic poetry. Li Bai's poems are included in volumes 161 to 180 of the Tang Dynasty. There is "Li Taibai Collection" handed down.

Li Bai received enlightenment education when he was a child, and from the first year of Jingyun (710), Li Bai began to read the historical books of Zhuzi. In the third year of Kaiyuan (715) - he likes to make fu, swordsmanship, strange books, and immortals: "Fifteen views of strange books, and Fu Ling is similar".

As a young man, he began to travel around China. Around the fifth year of Kaiyuan, Li Bai once worshipped Zhao Rui, who wrote the "Long and Short Classics", as his teacher, and studied for more than a year, and the study during this period had a profound impact on Li Bai.

In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, he studied in Daming Temple of Dai Tianshan. At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan. He began to roam extensively, reaching the Dongting Xiangjiang River in the south, Wu and Yue in the east, and lived in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province).

It is said that it was because of his "Qingping Tune" that he offended Yang Guifei, who was favored in the harem at that time (because Li Bai ordered "Lux to take off his boots", Gao Lishi was very ashamed, so he used words to induce Yang Guifei to think that "poor Feiyan leans on new makeup" is a sarcasm for her) and was not allowed in the palace.

Later, he met two other famous poets Du Fu and Gao Shi in Luoyang, and became good friends.

Li Bai has created a large number of poetry works in his life, and there are more than 900 poems that have been handed down to this day, mainly including "Shu Road Difficulty", "Difficult Road", "Will Enter the Wine", "Silent Night Thoughts", etc., and "Li Taibai Collection".

His poetry covers a wide range of subjects in classical Chinese poetry. And there are masterpieces on many themes. And because of the different circumstances, the poetic styles of the early years and the later years are very different.

Li Bai is good at many poetry genres, and has left swan songs in a variety of genres. Li Baizhong is good at ancient style poetry, and is good at seven-word songs, five-word ancient style and Yuefu poems.

In the genre of close poetry. Li Bai is good at five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains. Li Bai's poems were written less. There are dozens of five-character poems. There are only more than ten poems in seven words, but there are also famous works that have been passed down through the ages, such as "Ascending Jinling Phoenix Terrace".

A word that has not yet been popularized in the Tang Dynasty. There are two works that are considered to be Li Bai's works, namely "Bodhisattva Man" and "Remembering Qin'e", which were called "the ancestor of a hundred generations of lyrics and songs" by Huang Sheng of the Southern Song Dynasty. There are also a few people who suspect that it was not Li Bai's doing.

Li Bai's poetic style is romantic and all-encompassing, inheriting the poetry revolution advocated by Chen Ziang, opposing the formalism since the Southern Qi Dynasty and Xiao Liang, and sweeping away the weak and gorgeous literary style since the Southern Dynasties. Both in content and form, Tang poetry has been creatively developed.

Li Shifu has a strong subjective lyrical color, and the content shows the rebellious spirit of contempt for vulgarity, rebellion and disgrace of the powerful, singing the praises of rangers and immortals, and is known as "poetic immortals", and later generations also called him the poet fairy Li Bai.

Li Shi is rich in imagination, peculiar in structure, extremely exaggerated, vivid in metaphors, and uses a large number of myths and legends.

Li Shishi sings about majestic and magnificent nature, is good at describing and singing about the mountains and rivers of the motherland, is heroic and unrestrained, disdains the subtle carving and dual arrangement, and uses bold and unpredictable techniques and lines to paint the impressions and feelings in his mind, creating a vivid image of art, and an incomparably majestic style.

Li Bai is good at using the language of Yuefu folk songs, rarely carves and decorates, and is naturally straightforward. The spirit of Yuefu and the use of the language of folk songs have reached an extremely mature and liberating stage.

He Zhizhang praised Li Bai: "Immortals in the sky. 」

Du Fu spoke highly of Li Bai, praising his poems as "stormy" and "weeping ghosts and gods", and he was invincible and outstanding in the world.

In the tenth year of Zhenyuan Dynasty (794), Yuan Zhi wrote "Hundred Rhymes of the Old Man of Dai Qujiang", and there is a sentence in the poem "Li Du's poems are enemies". Yuan Zhen is the first Venerable Li and Du in the history of Chinese literature. In the eighth year of Yuanhe, when Yuan Zhi wrote an epitaph for Du Fu, he said, "Li Shang can't go through his domain, and the situation is mysterious?" Yuan Zhi is considered to be the first sister of "Li Du's Theory of Superiority and Inferiority".

Li Yangbing praised Li Bai in the "Preface to the Collection of Grass Halls": "A thousand years of solitude, only one person".

Han Yu highly admired Li Bai; in "Diao Zhang Ji", he said, "Li Du's article is here, and the light is long"; in "Stone Drum Song", he lamented that "no one in Shaoling is dying".

Bai Juyi has the poem "Li Bai's Tomb", relying on Li Bai's "Poor barren and poor spring bones, there was an earth-shattering text. Bai Juyi was suspected of "slandering" Li Du in "The Nine Books of the Yuan", "The hero of poetry is known as Li Du." Li Zhi's work is talented, strange, and unique, and there is no one in the world. Du has the most poems, more than 1,000 people who can be transmitted, and he is better at work, and he is better than Li. However, the chapters of "Xinlou" and "Stone Trench" are only thirty or forty. Duchamp is like this, what is the situation?"

Tang Wenzong called Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's sword dance, and Zhang Xu's cursive script "three uniques".

When Wang Anshi compiled the "Four Poetry Collections", he put Li Bai behind the palace and said that Li Bai's poetry "does not know how to change". In this regard, Zhang Jie's "Sui Hantang Poems" defended Li Bai: "Wang Jiefuyun: Bai poems are many women, and they see the dirt. Jiefu's argument is excessive. Confucius deleted 300 poems, saying that more than half of the women were defiled, how could it also be said that they saw and defiled."

Su Zhe recognized Li Bai's poems in "Five Things About Poetry and Disease" as "similar to his people, bold and bold, flashy, good things and fame, and I don't know where the righteousness lies".

Li Bai is long in seven-character ancient poems and seven-character quatrains, and his poems are rich in material, rich in imagination, heroic and unrestrained, and crown Tang poetry. Later poets such as Su Xuan, Lu You, Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, Gao Qi in the Ming Dynasty, and Gong Zizhen in the Qing Dynasty were all deeply influenced by Li Bai's poetry.

In 1976, the International Astronomical Union named the impact crater of Mercury at 16.9°N and 35.0°W as the Li-Bai impact crater.

Related legend - According to Zhu Mu's "Fang Yu Shenglan" in the Song Dynasty, legend has it that Li Bai wanted to give up when he was studying in the Elephant Ear Mountain, crossed a stream, saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle, and asked her what she was doing to grind, and the old woman replied that she wanted to grind into a needle. So Li Bai realized that learning was as serious as grinding an iron pestle into a needle, so he went back to study hard.

Folk legend has it that Li Bai drowned in the water when he was drunk, and because of this legend, he was revered as one of the sea gods and narcissus kings, and it was believed that the writer Li Bai could also protect the sailors, fishermen and water traders in another world.

After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, in 756, in order to quell the rebellion, Li Bai was invited to be a staff member of the Yongwang Li Lan.

After King Yong was angry with Tang Suzong and was killed, Li Bai was also convicted and imprisoned. Fortunately, Guo Ziyi was able to protect him from death, and he was changed to a wandering Yelang (now Guanling County, Guizhou), and was pardoned when he passed through Wushan, at which time he was 59 years old. In his later years, Li Bai wandered in the south of the Yangtze River.

When he was 61 years old, he heard that the Tai Lieutenant Li Guangbi led a large army to defeat the Anshi rebels, so he went north to prepare to follow Li Guangbi to kill the enemy, but he turned back due to illness halfway.

The following year, Li Bai defected to his uncle, Li Yangbing, who was then a county magistrate in Dangtu (now Ma'anshan, Anhui Province). In the same year, Li Bai died of illness in his apartment at the age of 61 and was buried in Tu Longshan.

In the twelfth year of Emperor Yuanhe of Tang Xian (817), Fan Chuanzheng, the observer of Xuanhui Chi, moved his tomb to Dangtu Qingshan according to Li Bai's last wish of "aiming at Qingshan" during his lifetime.

There are various theories about the cause of Li Bai's death.

Li Yangbing said in "Preface to the Collection of Grass Halls" that Li Bai died of illness. Pi Rixiu once wrote "Li Hanlin's Poems": "I was coerced by corruption, and my drunken soul returned to the eight extremes. It was pointed out that Li Bai died of a "rotten disease".

According to the "Old Tang Book", although Li Bai was pardoned in exile, he died of drunkenness in Xuancheng due to excessive drinking on the way. According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, after the Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, Li Bai was summoned by Zuo Shi, but Li Bai had died.

There is also a legend that he admired the moon in the boat and died because he went into the water to catch the moon. There is also a label of "Taibai Fishing for the Moon" in the folk lottery activity, which is the next label. (To be continued......)