Chapter 18 "Records of Li Bai" Li Bai and his women

4. Li Bai and his women A friend once asked me: What kind of woman is worthy of Li Bai?I said: To be Li Bai's woman, you must either be the granddaughter of the prime minister's family, or be a beautiful woman of great beauty. There are two types of relationships between men and women, one within marriage and one outside marriage.But Li Bai had both inside and outside marriage. Let's first talk about the relationship between Li Bai and the woman in marriage.For a man with a history of marriage, when talking about his relationship with men and women, of course he has to talk about the relationship within marriage.Moreover, the relationship between Li Bai and the woman is very legendary.

How many wives does Li Bai have?Wei Hao, a loyal fan of Li Bai, said that Li Bai had four wives: Bai Shi married Yu Xu, and gave birth to a daughter and a son named Mingyuenu, and the daughter died after marrying.And together with Liu, Liu Jue.The second time was with a woman from Lu, who gave birth to a son called Poli.Finally married in Song Dynasty. ("Preface to the Collection of Li Hanlin") Wei Hao and Li Bai had a face-to-face relationship.The two of them met in the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754 AD), when Li Bai was 54 years old.This shows that Li Bai was married four times before he was 54 years old.Li Bai has married four wives successively in his life, and before his death, he still maintained a legal husband and wife relationship with the fourth wife.

There are two questions in this paragraph, which involve philological knowledge.There may be two characters that are Yanwen.Let's see, "Baishi married Yu Xu", married a Mrs. Xu, "had a daughter and a boy called Mingyuenu", and there was only one name-Mingyuenu.Why was there a girl and a boy, obviously two people, but only one name?Explain that there is a problem with the four characters "one woman and one man".Where is the problem?Guo Moruo said that the word "one man" is extra, and some scholars believe that the word "one woman" is extra.I agree with Guo Moruo's point of view, this "one man" is probably extra.

The last word of this text is probably also wrong.Let's talk about "began to marry Yu Xu", and we noticed that this "Xu" is not a place name, but a surname. The word "Song" in "finally married in Song Dynasty" should be "Zong". The characters "Zong" and "Song" are too similar.In terms of literature collation, this is close and wrong. According to my opinion, when reading this passage of Wei Hao, it should be handled as follows: Baishi married Yu Xu and gave birth to a daughter named Mingyuenu, who died after marrying.And together with Liu, Liu Jue.The second time was with a woman from Lu, who gave birth to a son called Poli.Finally married Yuzong.

"Women marry and die" is also problematic to understand.Did the daughter die after she got married, or did the wife die after her daughter got married?Or are both mother and daughter dead?Hard to judge.But in the end it was "finally married to Zong", there is absolutely no problem. Wei Hao's written material should be the most reliable.Some people think that it is wrong to "be second to Lu Yi's wife", it is an extra, and Li Bai does not have this third wife.But people after a thousand years, no matter how you think about it, no matter how you say it might be wrong, you won’t be able to convince me.I believe Wei Hao's record is reliable.I can find out all the works related to his wife in Li Bai's collection of poems and essays, and prove that Li Bai had four marriages, and we can roughly judge when they were married.