Everyone will be compared from different angles in life, such as love, career, money and so on. This kind of thing is not only common in modern times, but also in ancient times. Martial men are always better than literati. For example, the poems written by Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, are often compared with other people's poems. The poem "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" written by him was written by people and contemporary Xu Ning.

The poem "Looking at Lushan Waterfall" written by Li Bai goes like this: "The incense burner in Rizhao produces purple smoke, and the waterfall hangs far in front of Sichuan. Flying down three thousands of feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days. " What Xu Ning wrote is: "The void is full of water, and the thunder is rushing. The ages are like white practice, and the world is broken. "

Let's compare these two poems. In fact, Li Bai writes better than Xu Ning in all aspects. From the rhetorical point of view, Li Bai used imagination in this poem to make the image of the waterfall vivid. Xu Ning only described the poem objectively. Although he also incorporated some exaggerated elements, he still felt dry and slightly dull, from which he really could not feel any poetry.

From the aspect of picture performance, Li Bai's poems connect the pictures together, which makes people feel the sense of integrity and ceremony when they taste, while Xu Ning seems to cut off the connection between the pictures when he expresses them, which makes people have mixed feelings when they taste them, and can't integrate the pictures into their minds well.

After reading their poems, Su Dongpo, a great writer, wrote a poem praising Li Bai, and also used it to mock Xu Ning. The poem is written like this: "The emperor sent the Milky Way to hang down, and there were immortals in ancient times. I don't want to wash bad poems with Xu Ning. " Although Su Dongpo's words are really ugly to Xu Ning, they do point out Xu Ning's shortcomings. He is really inferior to Li Bai in writing poems. However, Xu Ning also wrote many good poems, but after the "evil poems" incident, he faded out of people's sight, so that few people in later generations knew about his existence.

Many people have their own views on the Lushan Waterfall of Li Bai and Xu Ning. In fact, no one is right or wrong. Perhaps for some people, Li Bai's poems are more attractive, and perhaps for some people, Xu Ning's poems have their own charm. We can always find reasons to like them anyway. We shouldn't target anyone. There are thousands of people in Qian Qian and thousands of hobbies and habits in Qian Qian. There is no need to change yourself for others.