A short historical story about Li Bai
1. Grinding an iron pestle into a needle
Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, did not like reading when he was a child. One day, when the teacher was not at home, he quietly slipped out to play.
He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone. Li Bai was very puzzled and asked: "Old woman, what are you doing grinding the iron pestle?"
The old woman said: "I am grinding the needle." Li Bai asked in surprise: "Oh! Why is the iron pestle so thick?" Can it be ground into a needle?" The old woman said with a smile: "As long as you grind the iron pestle every day, it will become finer and finer. Are you still afraid that it won't be ground into a needle?" After hearing this, the clever Li Bai thought to himself, Feeling ashamed, I turned around and ran back to the bookstore. From then on, he kept in mind the principle that "as long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle" and studied hard.
2. The boy is really a genius, so gratifying
When Li Bai was 5 years old, he followed his father back from the Western Regions to settle in the Qinglian area of ??Sichuan. By the age of 10, he was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
One spring, a guest came to visit Li Bai's father at the foot of Minshan Mountain. It happened that he had not returned from his trip. The guest had a disappointed look on his face and turned to leave. When Li Bai saw it, he quickly grabbed the guest and said, "Uncle, you came all the way to see my father. You are tired for a long time without taking a break before returning. This will hurt your body and spirit."
When the guests saw that Li Bai was polite, enthusiastic and eloquent, they secretly admired him and sat down.
Li Bai began to get busy. He was delivering tea and towels, and was very respectful to the guests. In order to prevent the guest from being lonely, Li Bai put down the book he was reading and went to the living room to chat with the guest. He said generously: "Can you please give me your surname so that I can tell my father."
The guest is interested. Wanting to try Li Bai's talents, he coughed, twirled his beard with his fingers, and said loudly: "My last name is 'Someone has stolen', and my name is 'The bird has fallen off the mountain and the head is not visible'."
Li Bai thought seriously for a while, and then replied: "I know, I know, I will tell my father when he comes back."
The guest asked doubtfully: "Can you Explain it to me?"
Li Bai immediately replied: "'Someone steals' means removing the word 'steal' next to it, then it is the word 'Yu'; "Dao". Your surname is Yu, and your name is Dao!"
After hearing this, the guest was very impressed and patted his head repeatedly and said, "The boy is really a genius. Congratulations!"
3. Full of talents and rich literary thoughts
Li Bai recited Liujia (Taoist numerology and calculus) at the age of five, and observed hundreds of schools of thought at the age of ten. According to legend, Li Bai once had a strange dream when he was a boy.
One night, after Li Bai was reading and composing, he fell into a deep sleep. In the dream, he was still writing furiously. Suddenly, he found a lotus flower as white as jade blooming on the tip of his pen, dazzling with brilliance. In the midst of his surprise, pieces of white paper came from the sky and fell in front of his eyes. Li Bai was very happy, guessing that it must be a magic pen sent to him by an immortal. Thinking of this, Li Bai grabbed his pen and started writing quickly. Unexpectedly, what fell on the paper was a blooming lotus.
So, Li Bai picked up a bunch of lotus flowers and ran to the pond outside the house. He stood by the pond, raised his hand and sprinkled the lotus flowers into the water. In an instant, a miracle happened: after the lotus entered the water, it immediately sprouted stems and leaves and bloomed one after another. The breeze blew, the flowers swayed gently, and the fragrance filled people's hearts. Li Bai was very happy. Just when he was about to reach out to touch it, he suddenly woke up. Li Bai recalled the various plots in the dream and sighed: What a magical and beautiful dream this was.
Oddly enough, after this, Li Bai's talents became more advanced and he studied harder. He went deep into social life, traveled to the famous mountains and rivers of his motherland, and wrote a large number of immortal poems. He eventually became a talented and world-famous poet. Many of his famous poems are still chanted and praised by readers at home and abroad. Later, people regarded the flower in the dream pen as a good sign of literary talent, and the idiom "flower in the pen in the dream" was used to describe a person's talent and rich literary thoughts.
4. Li Bai's fishing poems
It is said that Li Bai once went to the prime minister's house and reported his family background: "Li Bai, a fisherman on the sea." The prime minister smiled and asked: "Mr. Lincang is fishing on the sea. "What is the hook for the giant turtle?" Li Bai said, "The bright moon is the hook and the rainbow is the thread."
The prime minister asked again: "What should we use as bait?" Li Bai said loudly: "Just use the most unloyal scholar-officials in the world as bait." "The prime minister couldn't help but feel horrified when he heard this.
Thousands of years later, Su Dongpo commented that Li Bai "plays like a colleague and treats his colleagues like grass and grass." , Gao Qingyizhi was vividly displayed.
5. Drafting the "Reply to Fan"
Li Bai's reputation grew, and finally even Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty knew about him. At the age of forty-two, the imperial court issued three edicts asking him to come to Chang'an. When Li Bai arrived in Chang'an, he went to see Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, accompanied by He Zhizhang.
Tang Xuanzong asked Li Bai to sit beside him. , asked him about his poetry writing, and about the important affairs of the court, Li Bai answered fluently. Seeing that Li Bai was knowledgeable, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty praised him repeatedly. Suddenly, the eunuch Gao Lishi who had been beside him spoke: "Your Majesty, Li Taibai is indeed outstanding in talent and learning. The envoy from Tibet (an ancient ethnic minority in my country) sent us his credentials the day before yesterday. Why not ask him to identify them? "
After hearing this, He Zhizhang secretly sweated for Li Bai, thinking that the words in the Tubo national book were like birds and insects, and no one in the court recognized them. For this matter, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty He was always angry. Didn't Gao Lishi obviously want to make things difficult for Li Bai?
Tang Xuanzong immediately asked Li Bai if he knew Tubo literature, and Li Bai replied calmly:
"I am here." When he was in the Western Regions, his father was doing business and had some dealings with businessmen in the Western Regions, so he knew a little bit about it. "
After hearing this, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty smiled with a smile on his face, and immediately asked Gao Lishi to bring the Tibetan credential. Li Bai took it, read it quickly, and then translated it fluently in Chinese. It turned out that the Tibetan credential was The Tang Dynasty wanted to cede a large area of ??land to it, otherwise it would send troops to attack. After hearing this, Tang Xuanzong became sullen and the civil and military ministers talked about it. Li Bai said confidently: "I am willing to draft a "Reply to Tibet" and summon the Tibetan envoys to come tomorrow. I will answer in person and the matter will be settled. "
"Then draft it right away! "Tang Xuanzong said.
Li Bai picked up the pen, thought for a while and then started writing. After a while, he sent "Answers to Tibet" to Tang Xuanzong. After reading it, Tang Xuanzong was very satisfied. Li Bai He wrote another one in Tubo. Everyone admired Li Bai for being so knowledgeable and talented.
The next day, Li Bai summoned the Tibetan envoy and wrote the "Answer to Tibetan" first in Chinese and then in Tubo. The Tibetan envoys immediately agreed to bring the "Book of Replies to Tibet" to the Tibetan leaders. Later, Tubo did not come to trouble.
Li Bai (701-762), courtesy name Taibai. , also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "Exiled Immortal", was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. He was hailed as the "Immortal of Poetry" by later generations, and was also called "Li Du" together with Du Fu. In order to compete with the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu is known as "Little Li Du", while Du Fu and Li Bai are collectively known as "Big Li Du". He is a cheerful and generous person who loves drinking, writing poems and making friends.
Reference: Encyclopedia - Li Bai