Chapter 31 Li Baier

Li Bai paid homage to the historical sites in Jiangling (now Jiangling City, Hubei Province).Jiangling is the seat of Yingdu, the former capital of Chu State.Qin destroyed Chu and burned the prosperous capital of hundreds of years into a piece of scorched earth. Qu Yuan, with disheveled hair, was thrown into the Miluo River.Qu Yuan and Li Bai are both so-called great romantic poets, but Li Bai's interest in Qu Yuan seems to be limited.He lingered at the site of Huazhangtai for many days.During the Warring States Period, this luxurious palace was known as the best in the world, and it took Chu people two hundred years to build it.Li Bai was fascinated by the scene of the court, hoping to reach the sky in one step, like Sima Xiangru, whom he admired.He disdained the imperial examinations. From the provincial examination to the palace examination, if he passed the examination, he had to start from a small official. For him, it was an unimaginable thing.The Tang Dynasty used poetry to select scholars, but this great poet more than ten years later had to choose another shortcut.Anyway, he has money, so he spends it wherever he goes.

Li Bai went to the officialdom, he had his own considerations.He first wants to go sightseeing and make friends. "Go to the country with the sword, leave relatives and travel far away", and one of the main purposes of traveling far away is to find gods.A Daoist came to Jiangling, and he hurried to see him.The Taoist priest praised him a few words, and he was elated, and wrote "Ode to the Dapeng Meets the Xiyou Bird", comparing the Taoist priest to the Dapeng, and himself to the Xiyou bird, spreading his wings thousands of miles in the sky.From the day he was born, he has been shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere. There are many fairy mountains in Sichuan, but the gods have never shown their faces.The destination he set for this trip was Tianmu Mountain, and he had great expectations for the gods there.

He roamed in Chu, from one famous city to another.The Chibi ancient battlefield in Ezhou, the Yellow Crane Tower in Hanyang, the Yueyang Tower in Baling... the vast waters that are rare in Sichuan really opened his eyes.His heart was turbulent, and he temporarily forgot about the court and the gods.He wrote poems in one go, and Dansha collected them.When climbing the Yellow Crane Tower, he ran into a strong enemy: a man named Cui Hao had already written a poem. "In the past, people have gone by the yellow crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is vacant here. Once the yellow crane is gone, it will never return, and the white clouds will be empty for thousands of years." Li Bai was stunned by this momentum.After thinking for a long time, I couldn't think of a better sentence, so I had to bow down.Worshiping the wind but feeling unwilling, he left two lines of writing on the wall: There is a scene in front of me, but Cui Hao wrote a poem on it.

Based on this, it is not difficult to speculate that Li Bai's words were written under Cui Hao's Qilu poem.Later, he became famous, and Cui Hao got his fame again.The Yellow Crane Tower has been honored by these two poets and has become one of the four famous classical buildings in China. During this time, he had a friend, Guide Wu, who was also from Sichuan.Wu Zhizhi was seriously ill during the trip and died. Li Bai paid for his burial. His tomb is by the Dongting Lake.Two or three years later, he made a special trip from Anlu, dug up the tomb, removed the body, and relocated Wu Zhinan to the east of Echeng (now Wuchang).This incident was passed on as a good talk, which showed that Li Bai attached great importance to loyalty.But I think he has the suspicion of making a name for himself.He regarded himself as a knight, and wanted to do something for the world to see.It's been a few years since his debut, but his reputation has not gained, so he went to E City regardless of the scorching summer to carry the decomposed corpse.

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was unwilling to lag behind the style of acting as a chivalrous man.Ren Xia means to act chivalrously with one's temperament.The highest state of Ren Xia is a style of acting like a powerful horse and a powerful and unconstrained style. Li Bai is conceited and wants to embody this style.The Tang Dynasty also respected Taoism, and the emperors surnamed Li believed that Lao Tzu Li Dan was their ancestor.Laozi became a god, that is, Taishang Laojun.But to lead from the mortal world to the fairy world, one needs to make alchemy, and the other needs to find the gods living in the mountains.Li Bai did these two things very hard.

A person who is a knight is called a knight, and a person who seeks immortals is called a feather guest: it means to become a fairy and become a fairy.To understand Li Bai, you might as well remember the knights and feathers.Literary history also mentions it, but often mentions it briefly.A stroke of good intentions. This article has not brought it, so stop and take a closer look. Li Bai is a very fashionable person. In the prosperous age of the Yuan Dynasty, several major fashions were popular in the city, such as writing poems, getting drunk, being a hero, and making alchemy.He also boasted about killing people: "Kill people in the world of mortals." "Kill one person in ten steps."

Some people say he is complicated, but in fact he is simple.In my impression, he is a bit like Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu.Xiang Yu has killed countless people and is a pure devil.Li Bai is a great simple poet who leads the fashion with his temperament. We also call him a great poet.In this person's life, the vitality erupted strongly in several directions. He described himself and said: "The body is less than seven feet, but the heart is ten thousand husbands." His stature was probably under 1.7 meters, a bit shorter than the heroes described in ancient books.He was not convinced, but even more arrogant.He is thin, walks vigorously, and never leaves his sword.His eyes are very powerful, shooting people like two lightning bolts.It is not unreasonable for Mr. Chen Yinke to suspect that he is a barbarian.He has nomadic character traits.

Regardless of whether he is Han or Hu, there is no dispute about one thing: he grew up in the context of Chinese.A strong Chinese atmosphere enveloped him, and he wrote nearly ten thousand poems (most of which were lost), which in turn strengthened this atmosphere and enveloped the Chinese people of later generations. In the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan, Li Bai came to Lushan and left a poem for Lushan: The censer in the sun produces purple smoke, and the waterfall Guiqianchuan is seen in the distance.Flying down three thousand feet, It is suspected that the Milky Way falls for nine days. After writing his favorite poem, he floated away, passing Kuaiji Mountain where Dayu met the princes, passing Wujiang River where Xiang Yu wiped his neck, and along the Yangtze River to Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.There are many historical sites in Jinling, but he couldn't keep him, so he soon drifted to Yangzhou, which is as prosperous as Chang'an.

He stayed in Yangzhou for almost a year.Suddenly there are many friends, these people come from all corners of the country, vying to call him brother and brother.This one is a poet, that one is a knight-errant, and there are countless down-and-out sons. Their common feature is that they ask him to pay for eating, drinking and having fun.He makes friends according to the principle of honesty taught by saints, and he believes everything his friends say.Besides, he was not short of money since he was a child, and he was used to spending money like dirt. Within a year, he spent 300,000 yuan.Gold refers to Kaiyuan Tongbao, 300,000 yuan, which is roughly equivalent to the three-year salary of a fifth-rank official at that time.Fighting cocks and horses wandering around brothels, sometimes across the state and sometimes in Hangzhou, Li Bai is so chic, the money is pouring out, and the attendant Dansha is dumbfounded.For a while he got tired and ran into Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province, hoping that the gods would come to meet him.Walking all over the peaks, the immortal is obviously hiding and doesn't want to see him.Frustrated and tired, he returned to Yangzhou and fell ill in the inn.He has a large group of friends, no one to worry about warmth.Dansha notified more than a dozen people, but these people suddenly turned into gods, and none of them came to meet.

In a bustling place where fickleness is the fashion, Li Bai, a fat native from a foreign country, has been wronged. He first tastes the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and his emotions fall greatly.He was so ill that he nearly died.He became homesick after recovering from a serious illness, his money was spent and no one sent it, the inn was moved from a high-level to a low-level, and the owner still bullied the guests. It was the middle of winter, and Li Taibai, who had mixed feelings, left us a short poem: The bright moonlight on the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground.Looking up at the bright moon, bowing your head and thinking about your hometown.

There was a Meng Shaofu who was kind to him. He asked a doctor to see a doctor for him, and arranged for his marriage.The woman's family is in Anlu (now in Hubei), and her surname is Xu. Her grandfather, Xu Yushi, once served as the prime minister of Tang Gaozong.But Mrs. Xu himself is in his late twenties, and Li Bai still wants to get in the door.He was down and out, he had no choice, no name, no money, no status, and he couldn't get along in the world, so he had no choice but to agree to this marriage.According to historical records, Mrs. Xu is beautiful, so maybe she was too old to choose her husband and son-in-law. Li Bai was twenty-seven years old this year, slightly older than Xu. Li Bai lives at home, but he can't stay at home, he wants to run out.He still has to make friends, even though he has suffered from the loss of wine and meat friends.He got acquainted with Meng Haoran and found that his poems had the style of a hermit.When a real poet meets a real poet, the friendship is not fake. You come and go, and you get along very well.When Meng Haoran went to Yangzhou, Li Bai wrote a poem to send him on his way: "The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March. The lonely sail is far away, the blue sky is gone, and the only thing to see is the sky of the Yangtze River." Yangzhou swallowed him 300,000 gold, and got him an eternal masterpiece.Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty highly praised this poem. Since then, he and Meng Haoran have forgotten each other in Jianghu for life.Li Bai's friendship is here and now, he is too busy to experience new things, he will not think about one person for a long time, including Du Fu later.Some scholars racked their brains to prove that he valued friendship, and it was very difficult to find evidence.They don't understand that Li Bai's type of poet is similar to some great Western artists.For example, the French painter Miro, because he painted well and did his own way, three colleagues were going to strangle him with a rope.Picasso was notoriously cruel to his loved ones.The British writer Somerset Maugham wrote "The Moon and Sixpence", and he portrayed the painter based on the impressionist master Gauguin, sometimes looking like a beast. This topic is not light and will be discussed in detail later. Li Bai married the prime minister's granddaughter and became rich again.However, the Xu family's social relations are already past, not enough for him to embark on an official career.And he married the Xu family, probably because of this.Money doesn't matter, he wants to do big things, if he can't find immortals, he has to consider helping the community.He disdained to start from a small official, but due to the situation, he had to contact local officials, such as Pei Changshi and Li Changshi.Changshi belongs to Zhouzuo, not the highest local official, but he is often arrogant and domineering.The proud Li Bai met these people face to face, and he even spent money to arrange a meal and spend time with the officials.He and Pei Changshi met nine times and spent a lot of unjust money, but he was not reconciled and wrote a letter hoping to meet again.In the letter, his arrogance remained undiminished: "Is it not allowed to play a long sword in the door of a prince or minister?" Such a job application letter, I guess the surname Pei would only sneer when he read it, and called Li Bai an idiot. In the so-called prosperous age of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, officials at all levels were the biggest winners, and they were very proud.With Li Bai's little money, there is more than enough to please eat, but not enough to ask for officials.Officials gave him a smiley face, but when he made a specific request, the smiley face turned into a grim face.What's annoying is that Li Tiantian really doesn't change, but Pei Changshi can't, so he looks for Li Changshi again.His wife, Xu, invited Ma Dudu, an outdated leader, through her relationship. Ma Dudu came forward to contact Li Changshi, and first presented Li Bai's poems.Should there be a door this time?However, when Li Bai was riding a horse drunk, he surprised Li Changshi's driver on the street.According to the local rules at that time, wherever Chang Shi's master went, within ten feet was the range of avoidance.How can the official dignity be damaged?Slightly whipped, severely imprisoned.The Xu family was frightened and urged Li Bai to write a letter of repentance, begging Dudu Ma to forward it. This is how the "Shang'anzhou Li Changshi Shu" came about. It said: "Who holds the Bai Gu sword, and the sad song is self-pity. Forced by the misery, there is no time to warm up... like floating clouds without any support." He sent some works as usual, Li Changshi didn't know if he saw it or not.This incident became a joke in Anlu's officialdom. Li Bai's letter of repentance was read aloud at a banquet for fun. Hong Mai, who wrote "Rong Zhai Notes" in the Song Dynasty, sighed: "The dragon is trapped in the ants, and it is amazing!" Li Bai can be addicted to doing anything, another word is perseverance.After Pei Changshi and Li Changshi, Han Jingzhou came again.This person is even more powerful, and those who are recommended and promoted by him are all prosperous in official career.Li Bai wrote to him, and at the beginning of the letter, he said: "I don't need to be a marquis of ten thousand households, but I hope to know Han Jingzhou." Jingzhou is not far from Anzhou, so he made a special trip to Xiangyang City, the seat of Jingzhou, to meet the famous Han Jingzhou.He wrote poems about it: "A high crown and a majestic sword, long bowed to Han Jingzhou." It can be seen that Li Bai didn't come to trouble.Write letters to please the other party, but when they meet, they bow to each other. They also wear a tall hat like a chimney and wear a mighty sword. ——Is this how the official sees you?Pretending to be a grandson must also be pretending to the end, you can't pretend to be half and keep half.The so-called neither humble nor overbearing is a good word in the book, but officials will feel uncomfortable reading it.Li Bai is pretentious, and this is the most taboo in official circles.Nine out of ten officials would ignore him.This person surnamed Han, like the one surnamed Li Pei, threw his heartfelt cover letter into the wastebasket. Li Bai couldn't figure it out and was very depressed.But he is Li Bai, and Li Bai is the kind of person who can't figure it out. If he can figure it out, he will become someone else. He drinks every day.He wrote a poem and boasted: "Three hundred and sixty days, every day is as drunk as mud." He had a daughter named Pingyang.Later Xu gave birth to another son, named Boqin.He wandered around with Anlu as the center, going north to Taiyuan and east to Luoyang.Going down to Yangzhou is commonplace, and it is also brewing to Chang'an.He can feel at ease with the Xu family's money, because he is Li Bai.Leaving home can range from three to five months to as long as a year.It doesn't matter if he doesn't have a family, he is in his thirties, and getting ahead is the top priority.It is estimated that the Xu family also believed in him, and the Xu family rarely complained about him.This woman hoped that one day his reputation would rise and the Xu family would regain its former glory.Li Bai wrote short poems for her, but never scolded her in the poems. The Xu family lived for the family and did not live long.Her depression seemed trivial. The family consciousness of the Chinese has lasted for thousands of years, and it can be described as the highest in the world. Men work hard and women suffer. ——For the honor, prosperity and reproduction of the family, many people are willing to do anything. One summer, Li Bai went to Dongting Lake, dug out his good friend Wu Zhizhi from the grave, scraped the dirt with a knife, and his hands were full of muscles.That's what a true knight should do.Echeng was a sensation, and knights of all sizes rushed to tell each other.On Anlu's side, the reaction was mediocre.But the impact of this matter is left to the future observation.Li Bai drank and wrote poems, and even after drinking, he could come up with a clever trick: he hid himself.There is a little famous Baizhao Mountain in Anzhou. Li Bai moved there with his family and hid it for others to see.The poems written here have a bit of Tao Yuanming's style: Dong Fan is Shuqi, Mizuki Rong Chunhui.The white sun shines on the green grass, and the falling flowers are scattered and flying. The lonely cloud is still empty on the mountain, and all the birds have returned.Everything is supported, and my life is alone without support. For this stone on the moon, I am drunk and sing Fangfei. —— "Drinking Alone in Spring" Li Bai could sing, and he sang poems while drinking.Mao Zedong said that his own words are "humming words", which have a similar meaning. Tao Yuanming kept silent to the end, but Li Bai disagreed with him.After hiding for more than half a year, her reputation remains the same, neither big nor small.Li Bai was anxious, so he came up with inspiration: simply hide in Chang'an.