Chapter 35 Li Qi

There are two versions of where Li Qi (690-751) was from.One said that he was from Dongchuan, which is now Santai, Sichuan; another said that he was from Zhaojun, which is now Zhaoxian, Hebei.But he has been living in Dengfeng, Henan since he was a teenager.When he was young, he made friends with a group of rich children, ate, drank and played, and was unrestrained. Huying Shuiyang", "I knew that today's study is wrong, and I regret that I used to be a chivalrous man" ("Xu Ge Xing"), finally passed the Jinshi examination, and became a small official of the eighth rank Xinxiang Wei, and I have been doing it for many years without any regrets. hope of advancement.So he realized it again, abandoned his official position and retired to hermitage.

Since then, he has made friends and traveled around Henan. It is said that he believed in Taoism and practiced alchemy himself.In the poem Wang Wei gave him, he said: "I heard that the cinnabar baited by you is very beautiful. I don't know when it will grow wings from now on?" ("Gift to Li Qi") Li Qi is good at singing with seven characters.Among his poems, frontier poems are the most famous, and poems describing music are also very good.For example, the widely recited "Ancient Congjun March": His "Qin Songs", "Listening to Wan Anshan's Songs of Pleasure", "Listening to Dong Da Playing Hu Jia Nong and Sending a Message to Yufang Geshi" and other works describing music are famous poems describing music in Tang poetry.

In addition, his farewell poems are also famous. Li Qi's poems, "Quan Tang Poems" are recorded in three volumes, and about 117 poems are extant.