Chapter 363 Li Bai (Seeking Points to Push and Receive Rewards)

As for what the son of the Dong family can't touch?

That's because Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, came out with the first child born to his concubine Chen Ajiao, and clearly told the guests who participated in the reception party...... That's the son.

However, the people who participated in the reception party touched the first child born to Chen Ajiao, the concubine of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's eighteenth generation grandson Dong Tianci... The male bird is gone.

In this case, is the son of the Dong family untouchable?

In my country, there is a famous poet named Li Bai.

Li Bai (701-762), known as Taibai, was a great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty and was praised as a "poet immortal" by later generations. Han nationality, ancestral home of Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an County, Tianshui, Gansu), was born in Broken Leaf City (then part of the territory of the Tang Dynasty, now Kyrgyzstan), and then moved to Mianzhou, Jiannan Province with his father at the age of 4. Li Bai has more than 1,000 poems, and "Li Taibai Collection" has been handed down. He died in 762 at the age of 61 in present-day Anhui. Its tomb is in Anhui Dangtu, Sichuan Jiangyou, Hubei Anlu has memorial halls.

Li Bai lived in the Tang Dynasty, at the age of twenty-five he left Shu alone, began a wide range of roaming life, south to Dongting Xiangjiang, east to Yuezhou (Huiji County), living in Anlu and Yingshan. Until the first year of Tianbao (742), Li Bai was summoned to Chang'an, enshrined in Hanlin, and then because he could not see the magnates, only two and a half years in Beijing, he gave the gold and let it go, and then was awarded the Taoist Ziji Palace in Jinan (now Jinan City, Shandong Province) by the high heavenly master Rugui Taoist. Become a true Taoist priest and live a wandering life.

Later generations called Li Bai and Du Fu "Li Du". The overall style of his poetry is fresh and handsome. It not only reflects the prosperity of the times, but also exposes the absurdity and corruption of the ruling class, showing a positive spirit of contempt for the powerful, rebelling against the shackles of tradition, and pursuing freedom and ideals.

Li Bai's learning content in his youth was very extensive, in addition to Confucian classics, ancient literary and historical masterpieces, he also browsed the books of the hundred schools of thought, "Bai, Ben Longxi cloth, wandering Chu and Han." good swordsmanship" ("Book with Han Jingzhou"). He believed early on that he liked Taoism. He likes to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, seek immortals and learn the Tao, and at the same time has the political ambition to make meritorious contributions, claiming to "apply for the talk of Yan and seek the art of the emperor." Strive for intelligence. I would like to be an assistant. Make Huan District Dading, Haixian Jingyi" ("Dai Shou Shan Answer Meng Shaofu Transfer Document"). On the one hand, you must be a hermit immortal who is beyond the world, and on the other hand, you must be an auxiliary minister of the monarch. This has created a contradiction between birth and accession to the WTO. However, actively joining the WTO and caring for the country were the mainstream of his life's thinking, and they were also the ideological basis for the progressive content of his works. The poems written by Li Bai in Shu when he was a teenager have survived very little, but such as "Visiting the Taoist Priest of Dai Tianshan and Not Meeting" and "Moon Song of Mount Emei" have shown outstanding talent.

In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai went out of Shu, "went to the country with a sword, and traveled far away from his relatives". He sailed out of the gorge along the river, and gradually drifted away, the mountains of his hometown gradually disappeared and became unrecognizable, only the water flowing from the Three Gorges still followed him, pushing his boat, and sending him to a strange and distant city.

What Li Bai didn't expect was that there would be an extraordinary meeting in Jiangling, and he actually met Sima Chengzhen, a Taoist priest who was revered by three generations of emperors. Sima Chengzhen, a Taoist priest from Tiantai, not only learned a complete set of Taoist spells, but also wrote a good seal, and his poems were also elegant like immortals. Xuanzong respected him very much, once summoned him to the inner hall, asked for scriptures, and also built a balcony for him, and sent his sister Princess Yuzhen to learn the Tao with him. Li Bai was naturally very happy to see this favored Taoist priest, and he also sent his own poems for his review. Li Bai's breath is magnificent, his qualifications are extraordinary, Sima Chengzhen has been very appreciative at first sight, and even after reading his poems, he was even more amazed, praising him for "having fairy wind and bones, which can be compared with the eight extremes of fugue". Because he saw that Li Bai not only had an extraordinary appearance, but also a superhuman talent, and did not learn from the Ronglu Shieun of the world, this was a talent that he had not met in the court and the opposition for decades, so he praised him with the highest praise words of Taoism. This means that he has a "fairy root", that is, he has the factor of becoming an immortal by nature, which is similar to the meaning of He Zhizhang's later praise of him as an "immortal", and he is regarded as an extraordinary person. This is the general impression given by Li Bai's demeanor and poetic style.

Li Bai rejoiced at Sima Chengzhen's high evaluation. He was determined to pursue the "Eight Extremes of the Divine Journey", an immortal and immortal worldly realm. In addition to being excited, he wrote Da Fu "Dapeng Meets Xi Youyou Bird Fu", using Dapeng as a self-metaphor and exaggerating the huge and rapid Dapeng. This is Li Bai's earliest article that became famous all over the world. From Gangneung, he began his journey of flying thousands of miles.

Li Bai traveled south from Jiangling, passing through Yueyang, and then south, arriving at one of the destinations of this trip. However, while boating on Dongting Lake, an unfortunate thing happened, and Li Bai's traveling companion Wu Gui from Shu fell ill and died (or was beaten to death). Li Bai was so grief-stricken that he lay down beside his friend and cried loudly, "crying followed by blood." Because he cried so badly, passers-by wept sadly when they heard it. Encountering such misfortune on the journey, it was really helpless, Li Bai had no choice but to bury Wu Guide temporarily by Dongting Lake, and continue his journey eastward, determined to carry his friend's bones after the southeast trip. Li Bai came to Lushan and wrote the popular "Wanglushan Waterfall" here.

Li Bai arrived at Jinling, the former capital of the sixth dynasty. The rivers and mountains here are majestic, the tiger is standing on the dragon plate, and the palace of the six dynasties is vivid. This not only caused Li Bai to feel a lot of emotion, but also aroused his pride in the era in which he lived. He believes that the capital of the past has been in a state of decline, and there is nothing to watch, which is not at all as good as the current emperor's rule, and the world presents a peaceful scene. Although Jinling's domineering spirit has died out, the sons and daughters of Jinling received Li Bai with deep affection. When Li Bai said goodbye to Jinling, Wu Ji pressed the wine, and the children of Jinling sent each other diligently, frequently raised their glasses to persuade them to drink, and the feeling of farewell was like the river flowing eastward, flowing through people's hearts, making people unforgettable. After Li Bai said goodbye to Jinling, he went to Yangzhou from the river and spent some time with his fellow travelers. In the middle of summer, Li Bai and some young friends "tied horses and wept down the poplars, and won the cup on the side of the avenue." Look at the green water on the horizon, and see the green mountains on the sea", so comfortable. In the fall, he fell ill in Huainan (where he ruled in Yangzhou). Sick and sick. He had a lot of thoughts, lamenting that he had little hope of making a contribution, and deeply missing his hometown, and the only thing that could bring him some comfort was the letters of friends from afar.

After Li Bai recovered from his illness in Huainan, he went to Gusu again. This is the place where Wu Wangfu and the beautiful Xi Shi sang and danced day and night, Li Bai felt nostalgic and wrote an epic poem "Wuqi Song". This poem was later praised by He Zhizhang of Yuezhou, saying that it "can cry ghosts and gods". From this point of view, Li Bai's Yuefu poems sometimes use old themes. But there are many new ideas. The historical relics of Gusu certainly aroused Li Bai's nostalgia. The beautiful and simple Wu Ji and Yue Nu made Li Bai praise him even more. Li Bai admired the aristocratic relics of the metropolis of Sanyin Huiji, and wrote a large number of poems to praise Shaoxing. Li Bai returned from Yuezhou and returned to Jingmen. He stayed in Jingmen for three months. Although homesick, there is no achievement in the work. He found it difficult to return home. The most rear. He decided to roam again. First of all. He came to Dongting Lake and buried the bones of Wu Guide to Jiangxia (present-day Wuchang, Hubei). He got acquainted with the monk Xingrong in Jiangxia, and learned from him about Meng Haoran's personality. So he went to Xiangyang to meet Meng Haoran, and thus wrote the famous five-law poem "Gift to Meng Haoran" Not long after, Li Bai arrived in Anlu and lived in the Taoist temple in Xiaoshou Mountain. However, seclusion was not a long-term solution, and he still wanted to look for opportunities to advance in his career. While living in seclusion in Shoushan, Li Bai made friends with officials in the form of admonishment (lobbying) to improve his reputation. Li Bai's literary talent was appreciated by Xu Yushi, the prime minister of the Empress Wu, and he was recruited as his grandson-in-law. Li Bai and his wife Xu lived a happy married life under the peach blossom rock of Baizhao Mountain, which is closer to Xu's house. However, the beautiful married life did not make Li Bai's ambition to go out to roam in order to achieve a career declined. He took his wife's house in Anzhou as his base, traveled several times, got acquainted with some officials and noble sons, and in the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan (734), he met with Han Chaozong, the governor of Jingzhou and the assassin of Xiangzhou.

Feudal emperors often hunted in winter. After Tang Xuanzong ascended the throne, he had hunted many times, and each time he brought foreign envoys with him to show off his might and deter neighboring countries. In the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan (735), Xuanzong had another hunt, and it happened that Li Bai was also traveling to the west.

His "Great Hunting Fu" hopes to use "the great road Kuangjun, the demonstration of Zhou Bo", and "the holy dynasty garden pond is barren, poor Liuhe", the territory is vast, the situation is very different from the previous generation, boasting that the current dynasty is far superior to the Han Dynasty, and at the end of the preaching of Taoism, in line with Xuanzong's heart of advocating Taoism at that time

Feeling. The purpose of Li Baixi's visit is to give gifts, and in addition, he also takes advantage of this opportunity to visit Chang'an and enjoy the scenery of the imperial capital of "worship of all countries". He lives at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and often climbs the dying South Mountain to overlook. When he climbed the north peak of Jungnam Mountain, he saw the appearance of a great country.

He felt that it was extraordinary to live in such a country, so he felt quite proud. But the thought of the decaying elements that had arisen within this thriving empire hit his high spirits again. After Li Bai entered Chang'an, he got acquainted with Zhang Qing, the captain of the guard, and presented a poem to Princess Yuzhen through him. Li Bai also stated in the poem sent to Zhang Qing, the guard, that his situation was very bitter, and he hoped to be recommended and was willing to serve the imperial court. In this way, he gradually approached the upper echelons of the ruling class. Li Bai also got acquainted with He Zhizhang in Chang'an this time. Li Bai once went to Ziji Palace, but unexpectedly met He Zhizhang there. He had already read He Lao's poems, and when he met this time, he naturally immediately stepped forward to meet him and presented the poems in his sleeve. He Zhizhang admired "Shu Dao Difficulty" and "Wuqi Song" quite a lot, and excitedly untied the golden turtle on his belt and asked people to go out to change wine and drink with Li Bai. Li Bai's magnificent poetry and chic demeanor surprised He Zhizhang, and he actually said: "Are you too platinum star to come down to the world?" He Zhizhang called him an immortal

A year has passed, Li Bai is still a guest in Chang'an, and he has no chance to serve, and he is a little depressed. Friends sincerely invited, hoping that he would go to the secluded residence of Qingshan Yang, but Li Bai had no intention of going. This time he went to Chang'an, with the ideal of making meritorious contributions, but he had no landing, which made Li Bai feel disappointed and a little resentful. When he went to the door of the prince to ask for advice, he was extremely unhappy, so he only sighed "it is difficult to travel, come back" and left Chang'an.

The 42-year-old Li Bai was recommended by Tang Xuanzong's sister Princess Yuzhen (one said that he was introduced by Taoist Wu Yun) to Chang'an, and Tang Xuanzong appreciated Li Bai's talent very much, and the courtesy was grand. Li Yangbing's "Preface to the Collection of Grass Halls" said: "Descending and stepping to welcome, such as seeing Qihao (one of the "Shangshan Four Hao" between the Qin and Han dynasties)". "Give food with a bed of seven treasures, and mix spoons with rice. ”。 But Tang Xuanzong only asked him to worship Hanlin. Be your own literary acolyte. Three years later, he was "given gold and released" by Tang Xuanzong.

Three years of living in Chang'an made Li Bai have a better understanding of all kinds of corruption and darkness in the DPRK and China. Being "given gold and released" by Tang Xuanzong was a watershed in Li Bai's political career.

In the first year of Tianbao (742), due to the praise of Princess Yuzhen and He Zhizhang, Xuanzong saw Li Bai's poetry and admired it very much, so he summoned Li Bai into the palace. On the day Li Bai entered the palace to meet him, Xuanzong descended to greet him, "giving food to the front with a seven-treasure bed, and mixing the spoon with his own hands." Xuanzong asked about some of the affairs of the world. Li Bai has studied for half his life and has been observing society for a long time. Be confident, and answer like a stream. Xuanzong was greatly appreciative, and immediately ordered Li Bai to worship Hanlin, and his duty was to write poems and entertain the emperor. Accompany the emperor around. Xuanzong has every banquet or outing. Li Bai's attendants must be ordered. Use his agile poetic talent to write poems. Although it is not a meritorious service, it is also passed down to future generations. Boast to posterity with pomp and circumstance. Li Bai was so favored by Xuanzong that his colleagues were envious, but some people were jealous because of this.

When he was in Chang'an, Li Bai often walked in Chang'an City in addition to worshipping Hanlin and accompanying the king. He found that in the midst of the prosperity of the country, there was a deep crisis, that is, the tyrannical eunuchs and arrogant relatives who could most closely approach the emperor. They enveloped Chang'an and China like dark clouds, giving Li Bai a strong sense of depression. At the same time, Li Bai's profligate behavior was slandered by Zhang Tan, a scholar from Hanlin, and some suspicions arose between the two. The corruption of the government and the slander of his colleagues made Li Bai feel emotional. He wrote a poem "Hanlin Reading, Yan Huai, Presenting the Scholars of the Virtuous Scholars", expressing his intention to return to the mountain. Unexpectedly, at this time, he was given money back, which seemed to surprise Li Bai very much. This time, it seems that Li Bai said something inappropriate.

In the summer of the third year of Tianbao (744), Li Bai arrived in Luoyang, the eastern capital. Here, he met Du Fu, who was rubbing his feet. Two of the greatest poets in the history of Chinese literature have met. At this time, Li Bai was already famous all over the country, while Du Fu was in his prime, but he was trapped in Los Angeles.

Li Bai is eleven years older than Du Fu, but he is not arrogant in front of Du Fu with his own talent, and Du Fu, who is "rich in sex and addicted to alcohol" and "friends are all old and old", did not blindly bow his head in front of Li Bai and praise him. The two have established a deep friendship as equals. When they were in Luoyang, they made an appointment to meet in Liang Song (now Kaifeng, Shangqiu) next time to visit the Tao to seek immortals.

In the autumn of the same year, the two went to Liang Song as promised. The two of them are here to express their nostalgia and rejoice, using the past to comment on the present. They also met the poet Gao Shi here, and Gao Shi did not have a position at this time. However, the three have their own ambitions and ideals. The three of them enjoyed a lot of fun, commenting on essays and poems, and talking about the general trend of the world, all worried about the hidden dangers of the country. At this time, Li Du was in the prime of life, and this creative exchange between the two had a positive impact on them in the future.

In the autumn and winter of this year, Li Du broke up again, and each looked for a Taoist teacher to make a true urn (Taoist secret text) and teach a Taoist urn. Li Bai went to the Ziji Palace in Qizhou (now Jinan, Shandong) to ask the Taoist priest Gao Tianshi Rugui to teach the Taoist urn, and from then on he officially fulfilled the Taoist ceremony and became a Taoist priest. Later, Li Bai went to Anling County, Dezhou, and met Gailiao who was good at writing talismans in this area, and made a real urn for him. This time, Li Bai got a complete result.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Li Bai and Du Fu met for the third time in Donglu. In just over a year, they met twice and met three times, and their friendship deepened. They searched for hermit masters together, and also went to Qizhou together to visit Li Yong, a well-known writer and calligrapher at that time. In the winter of this year, the two broke up, and Li Bai was ready to revisit Jiangdong.

Li Bai left Donglu and took a boat from Rencheng to Yangzhou along the canal. Because he was in a hurry to go to Huiji to meet Yuan Danqiu, he didn't stay long. When he arrived at Huiji, Li Bai first went to pay tribute to He Zhizhang, who had passed away. Soon, Kong Chao's father also arrived at Huiji, so Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu, Kong Chao's father traveled to Yuxue, Lanting and other historical sites, boated in Jinghu, and traveled to and from Yanxi and other places, of course, it was indispensable to linger in the bustling city. In Jinling, Li Bai met Cui Chengfu. Both are politically frustrated, and their feelings are more like-minded. Every time you play, take a dip, no matter morning or night. They boated on the Qinhuai River and sang all night, which attracted the amazement of people on both sides of the strait, and they clapped their hands to cheer them up. Because the two have similar personalities and similar encounters, they have a more tacit understanding and deeper friendship than ordinary friends, so Li Bai tied Cui Chengfu's poems to his clothes, and whenever he missed them, he recited them.

In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Li Bai took refuge in Lushan. At that time, there were always two contradictory thoughts in his chest: retreat and help. Yongwang Li Lan went on a tour of the east at this time, and Li Bai was invited to enter the scene. Li Bai went behind the scenes and strongly persuaded King Yong Qin to destroy the thieves, and he also made a self-examination of his political vision. Xiao Yingshi, Kong Chaofu, and Liu Yan, who were also in the south of the Yangtze River, were also invited by King Yong and refused to participate, so as to avoid disaster, and Li Bai was obviously inferior to them in this regard. King Yong was soon defeated, and Li Bai was also imprisoned in Xunyang because of it. At this time, Cui Jian comforted Jiangnan and recruited talents. Li Bai asked for help in a poem, and his wife Zong also cried for him. Song Ruosi, who stationed the 3,000 troops of Wu soldiers in Xunyang, rescued Li Bai from prison and made him join the shogunate. Li Bai became Song Ruosi's staff, wrote some documents for Song, and followed him to Wuchang. Li Bai was very valued under Song Ruosi, and recommended it to the imperial court again in the name of Song, hoping to be appointed by the imperial court again. But for some reason, not only was he not appointed, but he was Changliu Yelang (now Tongzi, Guizhou), which was completely unexpected. In the winter of the second year of Zhide (757), Li Bai went from Xunyang Road to the place of exile - Yelang. Because the convicted crime is a long stream, it is about to go forever, and Li Bai is in his twilight years at this time, "the night is thousands of miles away, and the west makes people old", and he couldn't help but feel even more sad.

In the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (759), Li Bai traveled to Wushan, and the imperial court announced a general amnesty due to the severe drought in Guanzhong, stipulating that the dead would be completely pardoned from the stream and below the stream. In this way, Li Bai finally gained freedom after a long period of wandering. He then drove down the Yangtze River, and the famous song "Early White Emperor City" best reflected his mood at that time. When he arrived in Jiangxia, because his old friend Liangzai was working as a local taishou, Li Bai stayed for a while. In the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Li Bai was invited by a friend to once again enjoy the moon on the Dongting with the degraded Jia Zhi, thinking about the ancient feelings and expressing his nostalgia in poems. Soon, he returned to Xuancheng and Jinling. For almost two years, he traveled back and forth between the two places, still living on people. [3] In the second year of Shangyuan, Li Bai, who was in his early sixties, returned to Jinling due to illness. In Jinling, his life was quite embarrassing, and he had no choice but to defect to his uncle Li Yangbing, who was a county magistrate in Dangtu. In the third year of Shangyuan (762), Li Bai was seriously ill, and handed over the manuscript to Li Yangbing on the sickbed, and passed away at the age of sixty-one. (To be continued......)