Li Bai was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Bai (February 28, 701 - December 762), courtesy name Taibai and Qinglian Jushi, was born in Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an County, Gansu Province), and was born in Changlong County, Mianzhou, Shu County. (One theory is that he was born in Suiye, the Western Region). The great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty, the ninth grandson of Li Hao, King Wuzhao of Liang.

He is cheerful and generous, willing to make friends, loves drinking and writing poems, and is ranked among the "Eight Immortals of Wine". He was once appreciated by Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and served as a worshiper in the Imperial Academy. He was given money and returned it, traveled around the country, and married the granddaughters of Prime Minister Xu Yushi and Zong Chuke. After Suzong of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne, he was involved in the Yongwang Rebellion, exiled Yelang, and moved to the home of Li Yangbing, the magistrate of Dangtu County. In the second year of Shangyuan Dynasty, he died at the age of sixty-two.

He is the author of "The Collection of Li Taibai", and his representative works include "Looking at the Lushan Waterfall", "The Difficult Journey", "The Difficult Road to Shu", "About Wine", "Early Departure from Baidi City", etc. Li Bai's poems and poems enjoy a very high status in terms of their pioneering significance and artistic achievements. Later generations were known as the "Immortal of Poetry" and were called "Li Du" together with the poet Du Fu.

Li Bai’s achievements in Yuefu, song lines and quatrains are the highest. The lines of his songs completely break all the inherent patterns of poetry creation. They are empty and have many styles of writing, reaching a magical realm of unpredictable and swaying at will. Li Bai's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language. Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and other Qi Jue wrote very well. Li Bai was the only one who was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue and reached the same extreme level.

Li Bai's poems are majestic and elegant, with extremely high artistic achievements. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art.

He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems. Li Bai's poems are rich in self-expression and have a strong subjective lyrical color, and his emotional expression has an overwhelming momentum. He and Du Fu are both called "Big Li Du" (Li Shangyin and Du Mu are called "Little Li Du").

Li Bai's poems often use imagination, exaggeration, metaphor, personification and other techniques to create magical, magnificent and moving artistic conceptions. This is why Li Bai's romantic poems give people a heroic, unrestrained, elegant and fairy-like feeling. Here's why.

Li Bai's poems have had a profound impact on future generations. Famous poets such as Han Yu, Meng Jiao, and Li He in the mid-Tang Dynasty, Su Shi, Lu You, and Xin Qiji in the Song Dynasty, and Gao Qi, Yang Shen, and Gong Zizhen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all greatly influenced by Li Bai's poetry. Li Bai's poems, Pei Min's swordsmanship, and Zhang Xu's cursive calligraphy are collectively called the Three Wonders of the Tang Dynasty.