My generation is not Artemisia people meaning is like me and will not be mediocre generation.

From Li Bai's Nanling Bie Children's Beijing in the Tang Dynasty, artemisia is a wild herbaceous plant, and the person who is not an official here is compared to artemisia, i.e., a person of the grassy folk, which can be imagined to be proud of his demeanor; it shows an incomparable egotistical mentality.

Background

Li Bai has always had great ambitions, he was determined to "Shen Guan Yan talk, seek the emperor's art, to fight for its intelligence, willing to be an auxiliary, so that the Huan district is greatly determined, the sea and the county Qingyi" ("On behalf of the Shoushan reply to the Meng Shaofu transfer of the book"), but for a long time have not been given the opportunity to realize. But for a long time it did not get the chance to be realized.

The first year of Tianbao (742), Li Bai was already forty-two years old, when he received an edict from Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty calling him to the capital. He was so excited that he thought the time had come for him to realize his political ideals, so he immediately returned home to Nanling, said goodbye to his children, and wrote this passionate seven-character poem, which does not hide his joy.