Li Bai and Su Shi were both bold and bold people, and their poems were also bold and bold.
And each was a literary hegemon in the peak era of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
They still have a lot in common. They were both geniuses in their early years, geniuses that never come before.
Wang Shizhen said that among the poets in the two thousand years after the Han and Wei dynasties, only Cao Zhi, Li Bai, and Su Shi could become "immortal talents."
2. Comparison of the personalities of Li Bai and Su Shi. Li Bai is bold, alcoholic, detached from the world, and will never deliberately flatter or harm the powerful throughout his life.
At the same time, he has a heroic character and the extraordinary temperament unique to a romantic poet, with extremely rich imagination and unrealistic actions, and is wild and unrestrained.
"I can't be happy if I am able to crush my eyebrows and bend my waist to serve the powerful." "To be happy in life, you must have all the joy. Don't let the golden bottle stand in the sky against the moon."
3. The influence of Li Bai and Su Shi on later generations. Let’s talk about Li Bai first. Li Bai’s literary achievements conquered the court and the public during the Tang Dynasty and won a high reputation and status. It had a particularly huge impact on later generations of the literary world. This is mainly reflected in Li Bai’s
Personal personality charm and literary achievements.
His extraordinary self-confidence that "I am born with talent must be useful" greatly influenced countless literati in later generations. His independent personality that "can defeat the powerful and be humble" deeply infected later generations of scholars.
In the cultural tradition of ancient China's feudal society, where the human body's personality was suppressed by orthodox ideas, Li Bai's uninhibited and innocent personality undoubtedly had great charm.
In terms of artistic achievements in poetry, his powerful poems have fascinated countless poets in later generations.
His unpredictable imagination, magnificent and beautiful images, fresh and bright language, and bold and elegant style have great appeal to later generations of poets. Great poets such as Su Shi and Lu You were all influenced by him.
He is a unique genius in the history of Chinese poetry. His influence on Chinese poetry is multifaceted and far-reaching. His status in the history of Chinese poetry is immortal.
Let’s talk about Su Shi. Su Shi is a representative figure of Chinese traditional culture.
He learned from the ideas of many schools of thought, which resulted in him reaching a transcendent and broad-minded state in his attitude towards life, and achieving the unity of "being alone" and "being helpful" in his way of life.
He played a positive role in promoting the inheritance and development of Chinese culture, and had a profound impact on the personality pursuits and moral achievements of later generations of literati.
Wang Guowei, a master of modern Chinese studies, praised Su Shi: "There are no poets in the three generations below who are better than Qu Zi, Yuan Ming, Zimei and Zizhan. If these four poets do not have literary genius, their personalities will be self-sufficient for the ages. Therefore, there are no noble and great poets.
Personality, and those who have noble and great articles are almost non-existent.