He is cheerful and generous, willing to make friends, and likes to drink and write poems, ranking among the "Eight Immortals in Wine". Appreciated by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he served as a sacrifice to Hanlin, gave back money and traveled all over the country, and successively married the granddaughter of Prime Minister Xu He Zongchuke. After Tang Suzong acceded to the throne, he got involved in the rebellion and exiled Yelang to Li's hometown in dangtu county. In the second year of Shang Yuan, he died at the age of sixty-two.
He is the author of Li Taibai's Collection, and his representative works include Looking at Lushan Waterfall, it is hard to go, Difficult Road to Shu, Entering Wine, Initial Making of Baidicheng, etc. Li Bai's ci and fu have high pioneering significance and artistic achievements. Later generations praised him as a "poetic fairy" and called him "Du Li" with the poet Du Fu.
Magical realm
Li Bai has the highest achievements in Yuefu, Gexing and Jueju. His songs completely broke all the inherent forms of poetry creation, no one relied on them, and his brushwork was diverse, reaching the magical realm of unpredictability and swaying. Li Bai's quatrains are natural and lively, elegant and chic, and can express endless feelings in concise and lively language. Among the poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Wonders, while Wang Changling and others wrote the Seven Wonders well. Li Bai is the only one who is good at both the Five Odds and the Seven Odds.
Li Bai's poems are magnificent and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with bold and unrestrained style, elegant and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art, so he was called the "fallen fairy". His poems mainly described the mountains and rivers and expressed his inner feelings. Li Bai's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen is shaken by the wind and rain, and the poem makes the gods cry", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature in his poems.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia One Li Bai