Climbing Mount Tianmu in a Dream is a poem by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. It is a dream poem as well as a fairy poem.

Excerpts are as follows:

Clouds are darkened by rain, and streams are pale by fog.

God of thunder and lightning, the mountains are crumbling.

Cave stone gate, drain in tiankeng.

An impenetrable shadow, but now the sun and the moon illuminate a golden and silver terrace.

The translation is as follows:

The clouds are dark, as if it is going to rain, and the water waves fluctuate and produce smoke.

Lightning and thunder, the mountain seems to have collapsed.

The stone gate of Xianfu opened from the middle and gave a loud cry.

The blue sky in the cave is boundless, with no end in sight. The sun and the moon shine on the palace made of gold and silver.

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Creation background

This poem was written by Li Bai after he left the Hanlin Academy. It was written in four years (745) and five years (746). In the third year of Tianbao reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (744), Li Bai was pushed out by powerful people in Chang 'an, released from Beijing and returned to his hometown in Donglu (now Shandong). Then set foot on the journey of roaming again. This poem describing the dream trip of Tianmu Mountain was written when Li Bai was about to leave eastern Shandong for wuyue.

works appreciation

The ideological content of this poem is quite complicated. After Li Bai left Chang 'an, he suffered political setbacks and was depressed and resentful mentally. There is no way out in the real society, but we can only seek liberation from the illusory celestial world and the mountains far away from the secular world.

This kind of seclusion thought seems to be depressed, but it can't be erased. To some extent, it shows that Li Bai has got rid of the bondage of the secular in spirit. This made him send out "Oh, how can I seriously bow and scrape to those high-ranking people, who will never be seen with a sincere face" at the end of the poem. This uncompromising spirit and strong resistance are the keynote of this poem.

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