When Li Bai was born, "My mother dreamed of becoming a Geng surname because she was named after her" (New Tang Book), He Zhangzhi called her a fallen fairy, "Because she solved the golden turtle, she enjoyed drinking" (Preface to Li Bai's Celebration of Wine Poetry), and the famous Taoist Sima Chengzhen also said that Li Bai was a saint's wind (Preface to Li Bai Dapeng). When he died, there was a legend of "riding a whale to catch the moon" (Guo Moruo's Collection of Literature and Art), and he said that he was "drunk and boating on the river, seeing the moon shadow, taking it and drowning it" (Hong Mai's essays on Rong Zhai).

Throughout Li Bai's life, I have to say that he is really like a white Venus who has been relegated to the world, and his achievements have returned to heaven. The most popular identity-drunkard

Du Fu's "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking" said that Li Bai's "The Son of Heaven didn't get on the boat and called himself Brewmaster" was based on facts. It is precisely because this poem by Du Fu is very famous that Li Bai has another nickname: Eight Immortals who Drink Alcohol. Both the Book of the New Tang Dynasty and Fan's preface to Li Baixin's tombstone said that Xuanzong told Li Bai to write poems, and Li Bai was already drunk in the Hanlin Academy, so Xuanzong had to order Gao Lishi to help him get on the boat. This may happen more than once. "Tang Shi Supplement" said: "White in Hanlin, heavy drinking, Xuanzong ordered to write music words, drunk." With water, you can move a little. With a stroke of a pen, you won't get extra points when you finish more than ten chapters. "Li Bai himself said," In a hundred years, 36,000 cups will be poured every day "(Xiangyang Song).

There are too many drunkards in this world, and few people can write poems and splash ink when they are drunk.

The most exquisite identity-Taoist priest

Li Bai likes to associate with Taoist priests very much, as can be seen from the poem. His good friends Dong Yanzi, Yuan Danqiu, Yan Yuan, Mr. Ziyang, Gao Zunshi and Shen Liaozi are all Taoist priests. When he had the chance, Li Bai simply accepted Taoism (see his poems, "When you visit Anling and meet Gaihuan to create truth, leave a farewell gift" and "Respect normal universities as Taoist priests and preach to Beihai"). The so-called Taoist ambition is granted to someone by a highly respected Taoist, which indicates that he has become a formal Taoist, and its nature is equivalent to Buddhism. In Li Bai's poems, he always talks about his self-cultivation, for example, "I learned Taoism at the end of my road" ("I went to my old residence in Shimen") and "I learned Taoism for 30 years" ("I paid the king to fill the vacancy in Huiyizhuang Temple, and Song Cheng sent me off").

Taoist thought is generally consistent with Li Bai's ideological background.

The most false identity-hermit

During the Kaiyuan period, Li Bai lived in seclusion in Zhuxi, Culai Mountain, and was called "Six Nights in Zhuxi" with Confucius, Han Huai, Pei Zheng, Zhang Shuming and Tao Mian. After coming out of the mountain, Li Bai also wrote poems such as "Sending Han Huai, Pei Zheng and Kong Chao's father back to the mountain" to express his nostalgia for seclusion. However, we might as well think that Comrade Li Bai has always claimed to "apply Yan Guan's words and seek the skills of emperors ... to make Huan District big and Hai County quiet" ("Answering the documents of a Meng Shaofu's generation of Shoushan"), and in the Tang Dynasty, there was a special atmosphere of "shortcut to the south", that is, seclusion was used to show his reputation and influence the court, and he was born into the world in this way.

Therefore, I am afraid that only he knows the truth about seclusion.