Li Bai (70 1-762), the word Taibai, was a poet in the Tang Dynasty in China. He said that his ancestral home was Ji Cheng in Longxi (now Qin 'an County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province), and he belonged to the Li Tang royal family after Song Li, the former king of martial arts in Xiliang. When he was young, he moved to Mianzhou, Jiannan (now Changlong County, Jiangyou, Sichuan).

Li Bai was an outstanding romantic poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and was known as "Poet Fairy", "Poet Knight", "Brewmaster" and "Immortal". Together with Du Fu, they are called "Du Li". He Zhangzhi exclaimed as "a fairy falling from the sky".

Li Bai once presented the Hanlin in the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (742). But because of his unruly personality, he left Chang 'an in less than two years.

It is said that because his Qing Ping Diao offended Yang Guifei, the favorite concubine of the harem at that time (Gao Lishi was ashamed of Li Bai's order to "take off his boots", so Yang Guifei was induced to think that the words "poor swallow leaning on her new makeup" were ironic) and could not stay in the palace.

In the 11th year of Tianbao (752), Li Bai was 52 years old. On his way to the north, he went to Handan, Linming and Qingping County successively. Go to Youzhou in October. At the beginning, I had the idea of making contributions to the frontier and learned to ride and shoot at the border. After discovering An Lushan's ambition, he went to Huang Jintai and wept bitterly. I will leave Youzhou for the south soon.

Li Bai roamed the south of the Yangtze River in his later years. At the age of 6 1, I heard that Qiu Li Guangbi led a great army to crusade against Anshi rebels, so he went north to join the army with Li Guangbi to kill the enemy, but turned back because of illness. The next year, Li Bai went to his uncle Li, who was then the county magistrate of Dangtu (now Maanshan). In the same year 165438+ 10, Li Bai died in his apartment at the age of 6 1 and was buried in Longshan, Dangtu.

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Li Bai's poems are rich in materials, rich in imagination, bold and unrestrained, and are the highest in Tang poetry. Later poets such as Su Shi, Lu You, Xin Qiji in Song Dynasty, Gao Qi in Ming Dynasty and Gong Zizhen in Qing Dynasty were all deeply influenced by Li Bai's poems.

Li Bai wrote a lot of poems in his life, most of which have been lost, and only more than 900 poems have been circulated so far. His poetry creation involves a wide range of China classical poems, many of which have excellent works. And because of the different fate, the poetic style of each period is different.

In all schools of poetry, Li Bai has an eternal swan song. Li is good at classical poetry, seven-character poems, five-character ancient poems, Yuefu poems, five-character quatrains and five-character poems. Li Bai's poetic style is romantic and all-encompassing. He inherited the poetic revolution advocated by Chen Ziang, opposed formalism since Nanqi and Xiao Liang, and swept away the extravagance of writing style since the Southern Dynasties. Both in content and form, Tang poetry has been creatively developed.

Li Bai is good at using the language of Yuefu folk songs, rarely carving, and is natural and frank. The use of Yuefu spirit and folk song language has reached an extremely mature and liberated stage. Shi Li's poems are rich in imagination, peculiar in structure, extremely exaggerated, vivid in metaphor and full of myths and legends.