According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Gui Li, the King of Liang. According to this statement, Li Bai and the kings of Li Tang are actually the same clan, so he should be the same generation brother of Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin.

It is also said that his ancestors were Li or Li Yuanji, who moved to the western regions because of genocide; However, there is no evidence for this statement. The philosophers of Li and Li Yuanji are still in infancy, that is, after the change of Xuanwu Gate, it is very unlikely to leave their heirs. According to Old Tang Book, Li Bai's father, Li Ke, was appointed as the city guard. Study in seclusion.

Li Bai was born in the first year of Wu Zetian Dazu (70 1). There are different opinions about his birthplace. There are two opinions: Changlong County, Mianzhou, Jiannan Province (now jiangyou city, Sichuan Province), Qinglian Township (now qinglian town) and Broken Leaves in the Western Regions (Suyabu, located near tokmak, Kyrgyzstan). The latter thinks that Li Bai didn't follow his father until he was four years old (705).

Li Bai received enlightenment education at the age of four. Starting from the first year of Jing Yun (765,438+00), Li Bai began to read historical books of various schools. In the third year of Kaiyuan (765,438+05), I was fourteen years old at the beginning of the year-I was fond of writing fu, fencing, strange books and immortals: "Fifteen books are wonderful, and writing fu is like Confucianism".

When he was young, he began to travel around China. Five years before and after Kaiyuan, Li Bai studied with Zhao Kun, who wrote long and short classics, for more than a year. The study in this period had a far-reaching influence on Li Bai. In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, I studied in Daitian daming temple.

At the age of twenty-five, he left Sichuan alone and began to wander widely, reaching Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and wuyue in the east, living in Anlu (now Anlu City, Hubei Province) and Yingshan (now Guangshui City, Hubei Province).

middle age

Li Bai once presented the Hanlin in the first year of Tianbao, Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (742). Once the emperor was drunk and asked Li Bai, "What is my status with Tianhou (Wuhou)?" Bai said, "The queen of heaven has many political affairs, and the country is fortunate to be raped. Just like the melons in the children's market, you don't choose the fragrant ones, you choose the fat ones; I am the one who gets the essence of anyone, such as gold from washing sand and stone from cutting stone. " Xuanzong laughed after listening.

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.

Later, in Luoyang, he met Du Fu and Gao Shi, two other famous poets, and became good friends. ? When I was in Penn, I saw a prison car passing by. I asked the officials, only to know that Guo Ziyi, who was unknown at that time and later became famous, was a captain and belonged to the famous Geshuhan. Because the fire meter broke the thief, unfortunately, because the wind blew backwards, it burned to the military salary, so it was convicted and sentenced.

When Li Bai saw it, he immediately released Guo Ziyi on bail, leaving a famous ZTE star for the Tang Dynasty. (This is Guo Ziyi's gratitude to Li Bai for saving lives after he was convicted, and he was later pardoned. )

old age

Tianbao was fifty-two years old in the eleventh year (752). On the way north, I passed through Handan, Linyi and Qingzhang in Guangping County. 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.

When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Li Bai traveled to Huashan, went south to Xuancheng and then to Lushan. In February of 65438+756, Li Bai, as Li Lin's adjutant, was invited down the mountain for three times to look for Yang. After Wang Yong angered Tang Suzong and was killed, Li Bai was also found guilty and imprisoned. Thanks to Guo Ziyi's protection, he was saved from death. He changed to Yelang (now Guanling County, Guizhou Province) and was pardoned when passing through Wushan. At this time, he was 59 years old. (Lin's rebellion)

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. In the 12th year of Yuanhe (8 17), observation made Fan follow Li Bai's wishes and moved the tomb to Dangtu Castle Peak.

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The Book of the New Tang Dynasty records that after Tang Daizong succeeded to the throne, he called Li Bai, but Li Bai had died at that time.

Li said in the preface to Caotang Collection that Li Bai died of illness. Pi Rixiu recorded in his poem that Li Bai died of "the threat of corruption".

Old Tang Book records that although Li Bai was pardoned and exiled, he died drunk in Xuancheng because of excessive drinking on the way. There is a legend in China that "Taibai fished for the moon": Li Bai was drunk while watching the moon on the boat, and tried to jump into the boat to catch the moon and drowned; There is also a sign of "Taibai fishing for the moon" in folk signing activities, that is, signing.

Extended data:

Li Bai (70 1-762), whose real name is Taibai, also known as "purple laity" and "fallen fairy", was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was praised as "poetic fairy" by later generations, and was also called "Du Li" with Du Fu. In order to distinguish himself from two other poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Du Li", Du Fu and Li Bai merged again.

According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Gui Li, the king of Liang, and he is a descendant of all kings. He is cheerful and generous, loves to drink and write poems, and likes to make friends.

Li Bai was deeply influenced by Huang Lao's idea of sorting out villages. Li Taibai's poems have been handed down from generation to generation, and most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, it is hard to go, Difficult Road to Shu, Entering Wine, Liang, The First Building of Baidicheng, etc.

There were biographies of Li Bai's Ci and Fu in the Song Dynasty (such as Wen Ying's Xiang Ji). As far as its pioneering significance and artistic achievements are concerned, Li Bai's Ci Fu enjoys a high status.

style

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 Shifu's personality is strongly subjective and lyrical, and his content shows the rebellious spirit of despising vulgarity, resisting and not flattering powerful people. He praised the ranger and immortals, and was known as "Poet Xia" and "Poet Fairy", and later generations also called him poet Li Bai.

Shi Li's poems are rich in imagination, peculiar in structure, extremely exaggerated, vivid in metaphor and full of myths and legends.

Li's poems praise magnificent nature, are good at describing and praising mountains and rivers, are bold and unrestrained, and despise meticulous carving and duality arrangement. Instead, he scribbled his impressions and feelings in his mind with bold and unpredictable techniques and lines, created a unique artistic image and put on an unparalleled style.

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.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Li Bai