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How to understand Li Bai, a historical figure?
To understand a person, we must put him back to the era in which he lived, so that we can understand him more accurately in the background of that era. So make the following answer:

Li Bai lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and many literati were eager to make contributions. Li Bai prides himself on being an unrivaled talent, boasting of the achievement of "strengthening his wisdom, assisting his wishes, making the Atlantic region big and the sea and county clear", and unswervingly pursuing the ideal of "laughing for profit" and "enjoying the country at last" all his life. He compared himself with Dapeng, Tianma and Xiong Jian: "Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars in Wan Li. If the wind stops, it can still lift away the raging water. " ("Li Shangyong"). He hopes to be a wise monarch like Jiang Shang and restore the Han Dynasty like Zhuge Liang. Yin's "Reading Zhuge Wuhou Biography", Dong's "Wandering Songs" and "Difficult to Go" (Part II) all reflect his thoughts.

He felt that relying on his own talents, he could "go out safely and make friends with the princes, be defeated and escape from the bird's nest" ("Preface to Sending Swallow Garden to Play the Hidden Fairy City Mountain"). He cast a strong contempt for those powerful people who enjoy high positions and high salaries by virtue of family relations, showing a proud and unyielding character. He despised the feudal hierarchy, was unwilling to flatter, and disdained to rise and fall with customs. The darkness of reality disillusioned his ideal, and he was suffocated by the shackles of feudal ethical hierarchy. He longed for the freedom and liberation of his personality, so he adopted a wild and uninhibited attitude towards life to get rid of the shackles and strive for freedom. Its manifestation is binge drinking and singing, seeking immortality and learning Taoism. But wine can't relieve worries, and the immortal is more ethereal, so he praised the beautiful nature as the ideal sustenance and the embodiment of freedom "according to the unchangeable habit of my life" (Lushan Ballad). Mount Emei, Huashan, Lushan, Taishan, Huangshan, etc. It is majestic in his works, full of clouds and streams; The rushing Yellow River and the surging Yangtze River swept away everything in the works, showing the poet's unruly character and strong desire to break through the fetters.

This is Li Bai's angry struggle against society and an important embodiment of his rebellious spirit. He opposed Xuanzong's exultation, his belligerence and his exposure that he was not one of his own, which led to the sacrifice of the people's soldiers in vain. Because of Xuanzong's arrogance, the eunuch's power was very hot ... Through the analysis of the political platform and the field observation in Youyan, Li Bai was sensitive to poets, and he and Du Fu were the first poets to reveal the disaster at that time. When the "An Shi Rebellion" broke out, his patriotic enthusiasm was sublimated and he got rid of the contradiction of using Tibetan resources. His rebellious character and spirit have profound patriotic connotation, social significance and characteristics of the times. The third, fifteenth, twenty-fourth and thirty-ninth editions of Antique have profoundly exposed and strongly criticized the social reality.

He has both lofty and vulgar side. His ideal and freedom can only be found in the mountains, in the fairyland and in his hometown where he is drunk and dreaming. Therefore, in his poems such as Into the Wine, Songs on the River, Songs of Xiangyang, etc., the thoughts of dreaming life, eating, drinking, enjoying everything and escaping from reality are revealed, which is also the representative of upright and arrogant literati in feudal society.