Chapter 54 Li He

"There is no shadow on the trees at noon on the moon, and there is only white dawn on the mountain. Painted torches welcome newcomers, and fireflies harass." ("Five Poems of Sentiment and Satire" No. 3) In the deep mountains, in the middle of the night, under the pale moonlight, the whole mountain is one. silvery white.The old ghosts held black-painted lanterns to welcome the new ghosts who had just died.Looking from a distance, there are ghostly lights flickering like ghosts in the random graves.Have you ever read such ghostly Tang poems? "The king of Qin rode a tiger to travel to the eight poles, and the sword shone on the sky. The sound of Xi He knocking on the glass of the sun, the ashes of the robbery flew all over the past and present. Drinking the moon will make you go backwards." ("Qin Wang Drinking Song") In addition to Li Bai's poems, have you ever read Tang poems with such magnificent and strange imagination?

"Yellow dust and clear water are under the three mountains, and it has changed for thousands of years like a horse." "Dark clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it, and a light shines on the sun's golden scales." Seeing off guests on Xianyang Road, if the sky has love, the sky will also grow old." "Please come to Lingyan Pavilion for a while, if you are a scholar with thousands of households." Do you feel familiar with these verses? These are all masterpieces of Li He, a poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty. Li He (790-816), courtesy name Changji.His ancestral home is Longxi, and he was born in Changgu, Fuchang County (now Yiyang County, Luoyang, Henan).He is a precocious talent.It is said that when he was seven years old, he was already famous in the capital because of his well-written poems.After Han Yu heard about it, he went to see him with Huangfu Shi. Li He impromptu composed a song "Gao Xuan Guo", which surprised Han Yu greatly.This legend is a little exaggerated, but another story is much more reliable.

According to "Tang Poetry Chronicles", Li He once went to see Han Yu with a poem he wrote.Han Yu was the doctor of Guozi at that time, and he was already Wenzong of the world.He has seen off the guests and is undressing to get ready to rest.However, when he read Li He's "Yanmen Taishou Xing" "Dark clouds overwhelm the city, and Jiaguang opens to the golden scales of the sun", he immediately put on his clothes and let Li He come in to see him.Since then, he has been running around for Li He, but unfortunately, he has not been able to change Li He's tragic fate.

Li He was a little young and arrogant, and he offended some people because of his talent. Because his poems were really well written, he was also envied by others. Therefore, when he was about to take part in the imperial examination, someone called his father "Jin" , which is the same pronunciation as Jinshi's "Jin", so he has to avoid his father's taboo and cannot take the Jinshi examination.Han Yu complained about the injustice and wrote a special article "Confession", but it didn't help.It was such an extremely absurd reason that completely closed the door of Li He's career as an official.Because of this, he was poor and destitute all his life. He only worked as a nine-rank Fengli Lang for two years, and died at the age of twenty-seven.

Li He wanted to make a difference. He wrote in the third part of "Thirteen Poems of Nanyuan":