According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Gui Li, the King of Liang. According to this statement, Li Bai and the kings of Li Tang are actually the same clan, so he should be the same generation brother of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin.

Unofficial history also said that his ancestors were Li or Li Yuanji, who fled to the western regions because they were destroyed by Li. But there is no evidence for this statement, and both Li and Li Yuanji were killed when they were young, that is, after the change of Xuanwu Gate, so it is very unlikely that they will have their own heirs. According to Old Tang Book, Li Bai's father, Li Ke, was appointed as the city guard. Study in seclusion.

When he was young, he began to travel around China. Five years before and after Kaiyuan, Li Bai studied with Zhao Kun, who wrote long and short classics, for more than a year. The study in this period had a far-reaching influence on Li Bai.

In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, I studied in Daitian daming temple (about 50 miles north of Changlong County, Sichuan Province). At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan alone and began to wander widely, reaching Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and wuyue in the east, living in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province).

middle age

Li Bai once presented the Hanlin in the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (742). Later, in Luoyang, he met Du Fu and Gao Shi, two other famous poets, and became good friends.

old age

In the 11th year of Tianbao (752), Li Bai was 52 years old. On his way to the north, he went to Handan, Linming and Qingping County successively. Go to Youzhou in October. At the beginning, I had the idea of making contributions to the frontier and learned to ride and shoot at the border. After discovering An Lushan's ambition, he went to Huang Jintai and wept bitterly. I will leave Youzhou for the south soon.

When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Li Bai traveled to Huashan, went south to Xuancheng and then to Lushan. In February of 65438+756, Li Bai, as Li Lin's adjutant, was invited down the mountain for three times to look for Yang.

After Wang Yong angered Tang Suzong and was killed, Li Bai was also found guilty and imprisoned. Thanks to Guo Ziyi's protection, he was saved from death. He changed to Yelang (now Guanling County, Guizhou Province) and was pardoned when passing through Wushan. At this time, he was 59 years old. (Lin's rebellion)

Li Bai roamed the south of the Yangtze River in his later years. At the age of 6 1, I heard that Qiu Li Guangbi led a great army to crusade against Anshi rebels, so he went north to join the army with Li Guangbi to kill the enemy, but turned back because of illness.

The next year, Li Bai went to his uncle Li, who was then the county magistrate of Dangtu (now Maanshan). In the same year 165438+ 10, Li Bai died in his apartment at the age of 6 1 and was buried in Longshan, Dangtu. In the 12th year of Yuanhe (8 17), observation made Fan follow Li Bai's wishes and moved the tomb to Dangtu Castle Peak.

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According to the New Tang Book, after Tang Daizong succeeded to the throne, he was called Li Bai, but Li Bai had died at that time.

Old Tang Book records that although Li Bai was pardoned and exiled, 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 on the boat, got drunk, tried to jump into the boat and fished for the moon, and drowned.

In all schools of poetry, Li Bai has an eternal swan song. Li is good at classical poetry, seven-character poems, five-character ancient poems, Yuefu poems, five-character quatrains and five-character poems.

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Li Bai's poetic style is romantic and all-encompassing. He inherited the poetic revolution advocated by Chen Ziang, opposed formalism since Nanqi and Xiao Liang, and swept away the extravagance of writing style since the Southern Dynasties. Both in content and form, Tang poetry has been creatively developed.

Li Shifu's personality is strongly subjective and lyrical, and his content shows the rebellious spirit of despising vulgarity, resisting and not flattering powerful people. He praised the ranger and immortals, and was known as "Poet Xia" and "Poet Fairy", and later generations also called him poet Li Bai.

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

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