Biography of Li Bai

Li Bai (701-762), courtesy name Taibai (太白), and the name Green Lotus Dweller (青莲居士), was born in Chengji, Longxi (near present-day Tianshui County, Gansu Province). His ancestors migrated to Central Asia at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Li Bai was born in the city of Shiba in Central Asia (present-day Kyrgyz territory). At the age of five, he moved with his father to Qinglian Township in Changming County, Mianzhou (present-day Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province).

Li Bai spent his early years studying and roaming in Shu. In his youth, he began to roam around the country. At the beginning of the Tianbao period, due to the recommendation of the Taoist priest Wu Yun, he was sent to Chang'an by imperial decree to serve as a minister of Hanlin, and was given special treatment by Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Xuanzong.

But because of the power of the nobility, soon to be slandered and removed from the post, a long time traveling. Tianbao fourteen years (755) An Shi rebellion, he lived in Mount Lu, but still closely watching the fate of the country and the people. After participating in the Yong Wang Li Lin's office. Yong Wang was killed in defeat, Li Bai sitting system Xunyang prison, the next year long flow night, on the way to meet the amnesty. In his later years, he drifted in Wuchang, Xunyang, Xuancheng and other places. Daizong Baoying first year (762) died of illness in his uncle Dangtu county magistrate Li Yangbing.

Expanded Information

Li Bai lived in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, he was a bold and heroic character, loved the mountains and rivers of the motherland, traveled all over the north and south, and wrote a large number of magnificent poems in praise of the famous mountains and rivers. His poems, both bold and unrestrained, but also fresh and elegant, and rich in imagination, marvelous mood, light language, people call him "Poetry Immortal".

Li Bai's poetry not only has the typical spirit of romanticism, but also from the image shaping, material intake, to the choice of genre and the use of a variety of artistic techniques, all have the typical characteristics of romantic art.

Boldness is the main feature of Li Bai's poetry. In addition to the factors of thought, character, talent and fate, the artistic expression and genre structure of Li Bai's poetry is also an important reason for the formation of his bold and elegant style. Li Bai's romanticism is characterized by his ability to imagine and to present the objective in a subjective way. Almost all of his poems have imagination, and some of them even use various kinds of imagination throughout.

Real things, natural landscapes, myths and legends, historical allusions, dreams and fantasies, all became the medium of his imagination. With the help of his imagination, he often transcends time and space, interweaving reality with dreams and fairyland, and interweaving nature with human society to reproduce objective reality. His image is not a direct reflection of objective reality, but the externalization of his inner subjective world, the reality of art.

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