Chapter 33 Li Baisi

Xu died of illness, leaving behind a son and a daughter.Li Bai moved to Shandong and went to live with his distant relatives.The Xu family seemed to be disappointed in him, and there was no scene of saying goodbye.On the contrary, Bi Tao, Xu's maid, married Li Bai's book boy Dansha, as is often the case in operas. The territory of Lu is more than 700 miles away, with Mount Tai in the north and the sea in the south. It is not only a fertile land, but also a hometown of etiquette.Li Bai settled in Rencheng (now Jining, Shandong), traveled around around Rencheng, and made friends with five literati and inkmen. Together with him, they were collectively called "Six Hidden in the Bamboo Stream", imitating the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. ".After hiding for several months, but with no success, he went to Hangzhou, met a Shaoxing girl named Liu, and married her soon.The family background of the girl surnamed Liu is not recorded in history books.Li Bai does not do business or farm land, and marriage is one of his sources of income.He does not lack the ability to attract women, like the Sima Xiangru he admires.The so-called traveling the world, you must get a woman, marriage is marriage, and it has nothing to do with love.To say that Li Bai fell in love with someone is tantamount to telling a joke.A Shaoxing woman surnamed Liu was besieged by scholars of later generations because Li Bai wrote poems to scold her more than once.It is rare for literati to scold their wives severely in their articles.I guess Ms. Liu is a fierce woman and cannot tolerate Li Bai using her family as an inn. She is dating a man other than her husband. Li Bai is furious and scolds her, but he doesn't stab her with a sword.

I suspect that Li Bai's murder was fabricated by himself. This marriage did not last long, and the Shaoxing woman abandoned him. During this period, he wrote six poems for Mount Tai, which may not be as good as Du Fu's half-line poem for Mount Tai, perhaps because of his poor mood. He roams, often not knowing where he is.His sense of wandering is astonishing: few people have traveled the world like him.A few strong pushes made him unable to control himself.If you list the places he traveled in his life, there must be hundreds of places.Feather guest, chivalrous man, poet, the three roles plus seeking officials made him overwhelmed.He has no hometown. "This place of peace of mind is my hometown." The warm embrace of his wife gave him the illusion of his hometown to some extent.But his wife ran away, and the third marriage has not yet patronized him.He was homeless and homesick, and unexpectedly got a good poem in Lanling:

"Tulips in the fine wine from Lanling, and amber light from the jade bowl. But the owner can make the guest drunk, and I don't know where is another land." Where can I find my hometown?Drunken Country has news. "Who helped you get on the horse? Don't worry about going downstairs." Li Bai was drunk and staggered down the restaurant.He forgot who helped him get on the horse.The men in Shandong are all drunk, but they pass the news to each other: there is a Li Taibai from Shu who is called Jiuxian! Seeking an official position does not make him famous for his poetry, and his poems are spread among the people.In the Tang Dynasty, poetry was used to win Jinshi. There were many poets who passed the ranks, and even more poets who failed the list.In the heyday of poetry, a great poet surfaced, and at least a hundred little poets sank to the bottom.The merits of the little poets are: to contribute to the prosperity of language art and to lay the foundation for the emergence of great poets.Official standards aside, good poetry always survives.Countless scholars recite Li Bai's poems, no matter he is proud or frustrated.Sometimes Li Bai saw "Will Enter the Wine" written on the wall of a restaurant, and sometimes in an inn, he heard a stranger whispering "Moonlight in front of the bed" with tears in his eyes.The poets were also the vagabonds of that era, in big cities and small towns, in big hotels and small inns, they were often seen, their faces excited or unlucky.Li Bai always regarded himself very highly, and disdain to associate with Confucian scholars, thinking that these people do not understand economics-economical economy.Confucian scholars are usually poets.Poets must roam.In addition, there are no officials who do not understand poetry, and merchants and ordinary citizens look up to officials... All these have created an environment for the spread of good poetry.

Li Bai looked down on the young poet, but the young poet was the main force in spreading his poetic art.A great poet appeared, named Wang Changling, who wrote "but let the flying generals of Dragon City stay, and don't teach Huma to go to Yinshan Mountain".The two great poets met at Dongting Lake, admired each other, and recited each other's good sentences, which was a grand occasion.Confucian scholars ran to tell each other: Wang Changling and Li Taibai... However, Li Bai was both happy and depressed when they met this time.Wang Changling, who is famous for his poems all over the world, looked at him high, which made him very excited.However, the other party is also a well-known Kaiyuan Jinshi, who is reused by the court.Li Bai is almost forty years old, and there is no way to talk about his official career.

In the following two or three years, he roamed around Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang, and his poetry became more and more popular, but he failed to get an official hat.Someone gave him a black gauze hat, and he wrote poems to reward him, playing with it again and again.Usually he wears the clothes of a Taoist priest, with a sword on his waist and a scarf on his head.There is no place for him in the government, but officials are willing to associate with him.His free demeanor was a very salutary addition to a man accustomed to officialdom.In addition, he is well-informed, proficient in swordsmanship, alchemy, and knows where the gods live.It is a pleasure to associate with him, although he reads so many people that most of his friends forget it when they see him.Officials invited him to eat and drink, and gave him money. He had long been used to it.Tao Yuanming begged for food in troubled times, "knocking on the door and talking poorly." Li Bai asked for money and things in the prosperous age, as if it was justified, as if others owed him.

Western street performers are very similar to ancient Chinese wandering poets.The difference is that for thousands of years, ordinary people in the West can understand their artists.However, if Chinese poets go to the streets to read aloud, they will be overwhelmed by indifference or boos.People's daily life has little to do with art.When the items are overfilled, there may be unexpected changes. Commodity fetishism will one day rebel against oneself and make room for the vigorous growth of the spirit. hope so.I hope that in another twenty years, everyone in the country will know the importance of Li Bai, grasp his spiritual connotation, and appreciate his uniqueness.By analogy, there should be at least two or three out of ten Chinese people who know the great Chinese civilization in their hearts, rather than just talking about it.If you just put it on your lips, you will inevitably boast indiscriminately, be harsh and soft-hearted, and cannot stand the cultural contest between countries, and surrender to the cultural invaders.

Li Bai is like a leaf floating in the south of the Yangtze River. He doesn't know that in the imperial city of Chang'an, the emperor and his concubines are circulating his poems. The emperor found Li Taibai, including his peerless beauty Yang Yuhuan.The emperor read Li Bai's works and exclaimed: "Good poems, really good poems."So the princes and all the officials agreed one after another, and scholars studied Li Bai at night, pointing out that he can be called the contemporary Sima Xiangru.It's a pity that such talents are placed among the people.The emperor ordered Li Bai to be called to Chang'an.It is said that the edict was issued three times in a row, and Princess Yuzhen also praised Li Bai in front of her father's throne. She had read the poems written by Li Bai in Yuzhen Villa in Zhongnan Mountain a few years ago, and her heart was secretly shaken.

The emperor is Tang Xuanzong.It was the autumn of the first year of Tianbao. Li Bai and a Taoist priest surnamed Wu are running around in the south of the Yangtze River, getting drunk endlessly.After receiving the edict, he went straight to Nanling, leaving Taoist Wu behind.Nanling has his sons and daughters, who probably live in a friend's house.He wrote a poem saying: Looking up to the sky and laughing out loud, we are from Haopeng! The so-called Haopeng people are equal to the grassroots class we are talking about now.Think about how he has been suppressed for many years and turned around overnight.

He went to Chang'an alone, without children.When he was proud in Chang'an, his children were still two thousand miles away.If it were Du Fu, he wouldn't do that. He gallops on a fast horse, the so-called spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe.Overnight in the inn, there are envoys sent by the imperial court to serve.He yelled at everyone, and laughed at every turn.For many years he longed to reach the sky in one step, and he got his wish.What are you doing?Ascending to the sky, he became Sima Xiangru, praised the emperor and his women, and became famous all over the world.An official, a famous car and a BMW, can't finish drinking good wine.Of course, he will not forget to help the common people and benefit the common people.

When he arrived in the capital, he stayed in the recruiting hall, and strutted around the streets of Chang'an.The word Li Taibai spread like wildfire, and there was an endless stream of visitors, all of whom were famous, including Zhang Fuma who had played tricks on him.He Zhizhang, who wrote "February Spring Breeze Like Scissors" and "The Younger Leaves Home and the Boss Returns", is in his eighties and lives in the third rank of the official residence. When he saw Li Bai, he said: What a banished fairy.The two went to the restaurant hand in hand, but the big man forgot to bring the silver, took off the little beetle and handed it to the shopkeeper. ——Li Bai wrote poems admiring this style many years later.

A few days later, a servant came and respectfully invited him to the first palace in the imperial city: Daming Palace.When the emperor came, he "descended his chariot to welcome him", such a favor that high officials envied.Li Bai became more elated, and talked eloquently in front of the emperor.In fact, he didn't understand that he was outside the "system", that's why the emperor treated him so politely; he even dragged him to sit on the seven-treasure bed, and ordered the eunuch to serve the imperial soup. The emperor used his imperial hand to stir the spoon a few times in the bowl. ——These are symbols of power, tried and tested.Whether it was three times or five times, all the eunuchs saw it, including the serious eunuch Gao Lishi. The emperor's random small movements spread faster than the wind inside and outside the palace gate. Li Bai was enshrined in Hanlin.The Hanlin Academy is located in the palace, more than one place, so that the emperor can be there whenever he is called.According to the rules, he got a "stable horse", which is not rare in the palace, but it is full of prestige outside.Li Bai rode a stable horse and walked around the city several times a day.The cockfighters of those days vaguely recognized him, shouted his name wildly, and chased after his fat horse. Chang'an City is seventeen miles from north to south and fifteen miles from east to west.With a population of nearly one million, it is equivalent to the size of a medium-sized city today.Around the palace wall in the north of the city are all luxurious mansions.Li Bai went out from one door to another, no matter how high the threshold was, it all became shorter under his feet.There are a lot of invitations for him to choose from, and below the third rank, he almost doesn't have to think about them.The three brothers Zhang Fuma surrounded him and arranged for him to meet Princess Yuzhen. When the great poet saw the pretty princess, how much imagination was left to future generations: the two stared at each other for half a minute, as if competing with each other for the brightness of their eyes.Both are admirers of each other, and they have a common language: talk about Taoism and gods, don't realize that the sun is getting late, strolling side by side in the back garden, it is not known whether they are holding hands or not. The relationship between men and women in the Tang Dynasty was relatively open. For example, women wore topless dresses to show their cleavage to men.Judging from the existing painting materials, most of the women's breasts are plump.It's not unrelated to brightening cleavage: men's eyes that don't want to withdraw make it plump and firm.And once a man and a woman are in love, they have corresponding actions to cooperate, to hold hands, to kiss.The Taoist priests study the techniques in the house, and there are also mating pictures on the stalls. Princess Yuzhen later became a Taoist priestess, and may have something to do with Li Bai.She is the emperor's younger sister, and she is very different from Xuanzong's age.Li Bai stayed in Chang'an for three years without a wife.With his status as a worshiper of Hanlin, it is not difficult to meet the princess.It is also possible for the princess to take the initiative to ask him out.Unofficial historians have speculated about this matter, and operas have been performed, but scholars who are sitting in danger don't bother to write a few words. The field of "color" has always been kept secret.The consequence is: a large number of expert writers today still don't know what sex is—in what sense is sex determined by power, culture, and daily customs?