The friendship between Li Bai and Meng Haoran is a much-told story in the poetry circle. When they get to know each other, of course, there is no lack of fun to drink and sing together, but the most important thing is to pursue emotional harmony and seek elegant companions and bosom friends.
Li Bai and Meng Haoran first met when Li Bai sailed from the Yangtze River in Sichuan in his twenties and traveled to Xiangyang all the way. He heard that Meng Haoran, a former poet, lived in seclusion in the southeast of the city and went to visit him specially. At that time, Li Bai's poetry was still young, and Meng Haoran's reputation was abroad. When Meng Haoran read Li Bai's poems and praised them, they hit it off at once. So they met in Jiangxia and fell in love for more than a month. Finally, Meng Haoran was going to Guangling, so they parted at the Yellow Crane Tower. After seeing his friends leave, Li Bai was full of thoughts and happily wrote a farewell to Meng Haoran on his way to Yangzhou, which was a farewell for generations.