In his early years

According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was the ninth grandson of the Emperor Xing Sheng (King Li Gui of Liangwu Zhaowang). If according to this statement, Li Bai and the kings of Li Tang are actually the same clan, he should be the brother of the same generation of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin.

It is also said that their ancestors were Li Jiancheng or Li Yuanji, and they moved to the Western Regions because of genocide. However, there is a lack of evidence for this statement, and the philosophers of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were still in their infancy, that is, after the change of Xuanwu Gate, and there is little possibility of leaving their own heirs. According to the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, Li Ke, the father of Li Bai, was appointed as the city captain. And live in seclusion for learning.

Li Bai was born in the first year of Wu Zetian's Dazu (711). There are many opinions about his birthplace. Now there are mainly two opinions: Qinglian Township (now qinglian town) in Changlong County, Mianzhou, Jiannan Province and Broken Leaves in the Western Regions (Suyab, located near tokmak, Kyrgyzstan today). The latter one holds that Li Bai did not follow his father Li Ke until he was four years old (715).

Li Bai received enlightenment education at the age of four (715). From the first year of Jing Yun (711), Li Bai began to read historical books of various schools. At the age of 14 in the third year of Kaiyuan (715), Li Bai was fond of writing poems, swordsmanship, strange books and immortals: "Reading strange books for fifteen years, and making poems like a charm".

I began to travel around China in my youth. Around the fifth year of Kaiyuan, Li Bai studied with Zhao Kun, who wrote Long and Short Classics, for more than a year. The study during this period had a profound influence on Li Bai. In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, I studied in daming temple, Daitian Mountain.

At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan alone and began to roam widely, reaching Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and Wu and Yue in the east. He lived in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province).

Middle-aged

Li Bai once dedicated himself to the Hanlin in the first year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (742). Once the emperor asked Li Bai because of his drunkenness, "What's my position with Tianhou (Wu Hou)?" Bai said, "The queen of heaven has many political affairs, and the country is lucky by rape. Like a melon in a child's market, you don't choose the fragrance, but you choose the fat one; I'm the one who gets the essence of anyone, such as panning for sand to get gold and cutting stones. " Xuanzong laughed after listening.

But because of his unruly personality, he left Chang 'an in less than two years. It is said that it was because his Qing Ping Diao offended Yang Guifei, who was a pet in the harem at that time (Gao Lishi was ashamed of Li Bai's order to "take off his boots", so he induced Yang Guifei to think that the words "poor swallow leaning on her new makeup" were ironic) and was not allowed to stay in the palace.

Later, he met Du Fu and Gao Shi, two other famous poets in Luoyang, and became good friends. ? When I was visiting Bing, I saw a prison car passing by. When I asked the officials, I learned that Guo Ziyi, who was not yet famous and was later famous, was a captain and belonged to the famous Geshuhan. Because of the fire plan to break the thief, unfortunately, because of the wind blowing against the wind, it burned to the army's salary, so he was convicted and sentenced.

when Li Bai saw it, he immediately released Guo Ziyi on bail, leaving a famous Zhongxing for the Tang Dynasty. (This is the gratitude that Guo Ziyi saved Li Bai from death after he was convicted, and then he was pardoned. )

In his later years

Tianbao was fifty-two years old in his eleventh year (752), and he traveled to Handan, Linyi and Qingzhang in Guangping County on his way north. Arrive in Youzhou in October. At the beginning, I had the idea of making contributions to the frontier, and I learned to ride and shoot in the border. After discovering An Lushan's ambition, he went to Huang Jintai and wept bitterly. Soon I will leave Youzhou for the south.

When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Li Bai traveled to Huashan, went south to Xuancheng, and then went up to Lushan. In February, 756, Li Bai was invited three times to go down the mountain to find Yang to join the staff of Yong Wang Li Lin. After Yongwang angered Tang Suzong and was killed, Li Bai was also convicted and imprisoned. Thanks to Guo Ziyi's protection, he was saved from death. He changed to a migrant Yelang (now in Guanling County, Guizhou Province) and was pardoned when passing through Wushan. At this time, he was 59 years old. (See Li Lin's Rebellion)

Li Bai wandered in Jiangnan in his later years. When he was 61 years old, he heard that Qiu Li Guangbi led a great army against Anshi rebels, so he went north to follow Li Guangbi to join the army to kill the enemy, but he turned back because of illness. The following year, Li Bai went to his uncle, Li Yangbing, who was then a county magistrate in Dangtu (now Maanshan).

in October of the same year, Li Bai died of illness in his apartment at the age of 61 and was buried in Longshan, Dangtu. In the 12th year of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (817), the observation made Fan Chuanzheng move his tomb to Qingshan in Dangtu according to Li Bai's last wish.

Death

According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, after Tang Daizong succeeded to the throne, he called Li Bai with a left inscription, but Li Bai was dead at that time.

Li Yangbing said that Li Bai died of illness in the preface to the collection of thatched cottage. Pi Rixiu recorded in his poems that Li Bai died of "the threat of corruption".

The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty records that although Li Bai was pardoned in exile, he died drunk in Xuancheng because of excessive drinking on the way. There is a legend in China that "Taibai fished for the moon": Li Bai watched the moon in the boat and got drunk, trying to jump off the boat and fish for the moon and drowned; There is also a sign of "Taibai fishing for the moon" in the folk signing activities, which is the next signing.

Extended information:

Li Bai (711-762), whose name is Taibai, was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. He was called "Poet Fairy" by later generations and "Li Du" with Du Fu, in order to share with two other poets, Li Shangyin and Li Xianyin.

according to the book of the new Tang dynasty, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of the emperor Xingsheng (Li Jue, king of Liangwu Zhao), and he is the same ancestor as the kings of Li Tang. He is cheerful and generous, loves to drink and write poems, and likes to make friends.

Li Bai was deeply influenced by Huang Lao's thoughts of arranging villages. Li Taibai's Collection was handed down from generation to generation, and most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, it is hard to go, Difficult Road to Shu, Going into Wine, Liang Fuyin, Early Making the Best of the City, and many others.

Li Bai's ci poems have been biographied by Song people (such as Wen Ying's Record of Xiang Shan Ye). In terms of their pioneering significance and artistic achievements, "Li Bai's ci poems" enjoy a very high status.

Style

Li Bai's poetic style is romantic and all-encompassing, inheriting the poetic revolution advocated by Chen Ziang, opposing formalism since the Southern Qi Dynasty and Xiao Liang Dynasty, and sweeping away the weak and flashy style of writing since the Southern Dynasties. No matter in content or form, Tang poetry has been creatively developed.

Li Shifu's personality is strongly subjective and lyrical. His content shows the rebellious spirit of despising vulgarity, resisting and not flattering powerful people. He praises the ranger and the immortal, and is known as "Poet Xia" and "Poet Fairy", which is also known as Poet Li Bai in later generations.

Li's poems are rich in imagination, peculiar in structure, extremely exaggerated, vivid in metaphor and full of myths and legends.

Li's poems sing magnificent nature, are good at describing and singing mountains and rivers, and are bold and unrestrained. He disdains subtle carving and dual arrangement, but uses bold and unpredictable techniques and lines to scribble impressions and feelings in his mind, creating a vivid image of art and an incomparable style.

Li Bai is good at using the language of Yuefu folk songs, rarely carving, and is natural and frank. The use of Yuefu spirit and folk song language has reached an extremely mature and liberated stage.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Bai.