Anecdotal allusions
The origin of the name
The first statement: When Li Bai was seven years old, his father wanted to give his son a formal name. Li Bai's parents love reading and want to cultivate their son into a refined and refined person. Father usually likes to teach children to read and write poems. When he was brewing his name, he discussed with his mother and tested his son's ability to write poetry while walking in the yard.
My father looked at the lush flowers and trees in the spring courtyard and began to recite poems: "Spring sends warm flowers, and early spring comes." Mother went on to say, "burning leaves and red clouds have fallen." Li Bai knew that his parents had memorized the first three sentences of the poem and deliberately left the last sentence, hoping to continue. He went to the blooming plum blossom, thought for a moment and said, "Plum blossoms are in full bloom."
"White"-didn't you say Li Hua's holiness and elegance? The father had a brainwave and decided to choose the words "Li" and "Bai" at the beginning and end of the wonderful sentence as the children's names, so he named his seven-year-old son "Li Bai".
The second way of saying it: In the preface to Li's Collection of Caotang, he said, "He fled to Shu, and later he was born in Bai Yang. Surprised at the dusk of ginger, Chang Geng fell asleep. So I was born with a white name and an ethereal white character. " Fan's "Tang Zuo picked up the tombstone of Hanlin bachelor Li" wrote: "It is also true that the male is born, and the first husband refers to Tian (Li) to withdraw the compound surname. The first lady dreams of Chang Geng and proclaims good luck, and the name and words are salty."
From the above documents, we can easily see that Li Bai's name was born after his father returned to Shu to resume his surname. Li's mother became pregnant after dreaming of the Taibai Venus, and gave birth to Li Bai in unbearable pain. Li Bai's name comes from this dream.
In the first year of Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was born in the last year of Wu Zetian in 70 1 year. Li Bai studied a wide range of contents in his youth. In addition to Confucian classics and ancient literary and historical masterpieces, he also browsed books with a hundred schools of thought contending. He always thought that he liked Taoism and lived in seclusion in the mountains to seek immortality and learn Taoism. At the same time, he has the political ambition to make contributions. On the one hand, it is necessary to be a hermit immortal beyond the secular world, on the other hand, it is necessary to be an assistant to the monarch, which has formed the contradiction between being born and entering the WTO.
However, actively joining the WTO and worrying about the country and the people are the mainstream of his life thoughts and the ideological basis for the progress of his works. Poems written by Li Bai in Shu during his youth are rarely preserved, but articles such as Wandering Taoist and Yuege on Mount Emei show outstanding talents.
Li Bai put pen to paper.
On the east side of the Yellow Crane Tower Park, there is a pavilion called "Stop Writing Pavilion", which is named after "Cui Hao writes poetry and Li Bai stops writing". Cui Hao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, boarded the Yellow Crane Tower to enjoy the scenery and wrote a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation: "In ancient times, yellow cranes carried saints to heaven, but today there is no Yellow Crane Tower. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked home, the twilight was getting thicker, and the river waves were filled with sad mist. "
Later, Li Bai also boarded the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at Chutian. He is open-minded and poetic. When he was about to start writing poems, he saw Cui Hao's poems. He felt ashamed and had to say, "I smashed the Yellow Crane Tower with one punch and kicked Nautilus Island with one foot. I can't see the scenery in front of me, and Cui Hao wrote a poem on it. " I stopped writing. Young Ding laughed at Li Bai: "The Yellow Crane Tower is still intact, but it can't be beaten." Li Bai also explained in a poem: "It's really a disaster. It was only because the yellow Crane Immortal cried to the Jade Emperor that the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt, and the yellow Crane Immortal returned upstairs. "
In fact, Li Bai's love for the Yellow Crane Tower is hard to find. He is passionate and even called it "one guest in Qingyun, three guests in Yellow Crane Tower". Mountains and rivers depend on humanity. Cui Hao wrote poetry, while Li Bai put pen to paper. Since then, the name of the Yellow Crane Tower has become more prominent. Later, when Li Bai boarded the Phoenix Terrace behind the Yellow Crane Tower in Nanjing, he also wrote: "The phoenixes who used to play here named this place after them, and now they have abandoned it on this desolate river. Martial arts flowers were laid on deserted paths, and the number of relatives and friends in the Jin Dynasty has become a famine. Three mountains and a half fall outside the blue sky, and Egret Island is wet. A cloud rises between the light of heaven and me, hiding his city from my melancholy heart. "
Poet friends and true feelings
Revisit Jiangdong
Li Bai left the eastern foothills, took a boat from Rencheng and went along the canal to Runzhou. I didn't stay much because I was in a hurry to meet Yuan Danqiu in Huiji. After arriving in Huiji, Li Bai first went to mourn the death of He. Soon, Kong Chao's father also arrived in Huiji, so Li Bai, Yuan Danqiu and his father visited Yudong, Lanting and other historic sites, went boating in Jinghu Lake, traveled back and forth to Tunxi and other places, and of course, lingered in Huiji, a bustling city. In Runzhou, Li Bai met Cui Chengfu.
Both of them are politically frustrated, and their feelings are more congenial. Every time I play, I enjoy swimming, morning and evening. They went boating on the Qinhuai River and sang all night, which attracted people on both sides of the strait to marvel and applaud them. Because of their congenial personalities and similar experiences, they have more tacit understanding and deeper friendship than ordinary friends, so Li Bai tied Cui Chengfu's poems to his clothes and memorized them when he remembered them.
Wang Lun's love
During the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Lun heard that Li Bai, a great poet, lived in Li Jiali, an uncle of Nanling, and wrote to invite Li Bai to his home. The letter said, "How is your husband? There are miles of peach blossoms here. How about your drink, sir? There are Wanjia Hotels here. " Li Bai is a good drinker. He smells such beautiful scenery and is glad to be invited, but he didn't see the magnificent scenery mentioned in the letter. Wang Lun was hospitable. He moved out of the Peach Blossom Pond to drink the wine with Li Bai, and told Li Bai with a smile: "Peach Blossoms are famous for their ponds, but there are no peach blossoms in them. Wanjia, the hotel owner surnamed Wan, not Wanjia Hotel. "
Li Bai didn't expect that he was fooled. Instead, he was moved by Wang Lun's kindness. It happened when peach trees and plum trees were in bloom. In the spring wind, there were mountains everywhere, the pool was dark blue, crystal clear and the green hills reflected. Wang Lun kept Li Bai for a few days, entertained him with wine every day, and sent eight famous horses and ten official brocade at other times. Li Bai took a boat to Guduwan Village in Dongyuan and took the dry road to Lushan Mountain. Wang Lun gave a farewell dinner to Li Bai in Gu 'an Pavilion, clapped his hands and set foot on it, and sang the folk song "Treading". Deeply grateful for Wang Lun's kindness, Li Bai wrote a poem "To Wang Lun": Li Bai was about to go boating when he suddenly heard singing on the shore. Even if the Peach Blossom Pond is deep, it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending away my love.
Write a preface for Li Bai
Li has an unusual relationship with the great romantic poet Li Bai. In Tang Suzong, Li Bai devoted himself to describing the shogunate of Lilin in Wang Yong. Because Li Lin rose up and rebelled and was defeated in Danyang, Li Bai was implicated and sentenced to exile. Although he was granted Amnesty, he was homeless, down and out, and lived in Dangtu. Li, then the magistrate of Dangtu County, appreciated Li Bai's literary talent and personality. After learning what happened to Li Bai, he resolutely settled Li Bai in Dangtu and gave him a lot of care in his life.
Li Bai died in Dangtu and entrusted his life's poems to Li before his death. Li lived up to his great trust and copied the manuscript into 20 volumes of Caotang Collection with exquisite calligraphy, and prefaced the collection of poems. Spread all over the world. The reason why Li Bai's poems and songs are widely circulated is not only that the poems themselves have high ideological and artistic quality, but also that Li's editing and arrangement have contributed a lot.
Textual research on life and death
In the 1990s, archaeologists in Kyrgyzstan excavated the ruins of Broken Leaf City. In addition to many relics, they also unearthed a stone tablet in the Tang Dynasty, which read "Li Mou, assistant minister of Anxi Duhu ...", further confirming Guo Moruo's statement that Li Bai's earliest hometown was broken leaves. His father Li Ke's life story is unknown. Before the 1960s, Chinese scholars generally believed that Li Bai was born in Jiangyou, Sichuan (now Qinglian Township, jiangyou city, Mianyang, Sichuan).
According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is the ninth grandson of Gui Li, the king of Liang, and he is a sibling of all kings and a brother of the same generation with Emperor Taizong. It is also said that their ancestors were Li or Li Yuanji, and they moved to the Western Regions because of genocide, but this is lack of evidence. According to Old Tang Book, Li Bai's father, Li Ke, was appointed as the city guard.
In the third year of An Shi Rebellion (756), he joined Li Lin of Wang Yong shogunate. After Wang Yong and Su Zong failed to compete for the throne, Li Bai was implicated and exiled to Yelang (now Guizhou). On the way, he was pardoned and wrote "Early Send Baidicheng". In his later years, he defected to dangtu county to make Li's uncle, and died soon. Some people say that "drunkenness is not about wine", that is, drinking causes death (see Pi Rixiu's Poems of Li Hanlin). Some people say that it is a sudden death due to simple drinking (see Old Tang Book). It is also said that he was drunk and drowned in the river to catch the moon. This statement has a long history and is widely circulated.
O Segredo
The family background and life experience of the poet Li Bai were kept secret in the Tang Dynasty, especially for his grandfather and great-grandfather. Li Bai himself rarely talks about his family background. Occasionally, he often only talks about his distant ancestors, confessing to his closest relatives and avoiding talking about it, so he is suspicious. Nevertheless, some people have seen clues from the dust curtain of history. Yu Shao, the secretariat of Tang Zizhou, was the first to mention this matter. He first erected a monument in Li Bai's hometown to commemorate it. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Xuequan's "Notes on Places of Interest in Shu" contained an inscription: "Bai, who first avoided the land and traveled to Shu, lived in Shu and was too white to be born." Then Du Tian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, mentioned it.
Until the present age, China Youth Daily published The Mystery of Li Bai's Life on July 28th with 1985, which relayed that Luo Xianglin, a scholar in Taiwan Province Province, believed that Li Bai was chasing Li Chengjian. 1988, Han wrote "Li Bai's" Five Realms Ordinary "as Li Xuansun's Interpretation", which proved that Li Bai was an imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty and Li Xuansun.
Xu Yu 1990, who holds the same view, published a textual research on Li Bai as the grandson of Li Yuan V, and also thought that Li Bai should be the grandson of the twelfth king Zhao, the grandson of the seventh emperor, the grandson of the fifth emperor Li Yuan and the great-grandson of the prince. Zhu Qiude's "On Li Bai's Clan Complex and Its Influence on His Life Elements" (Silk Road Magazine No.4, 1997) makes a comprehensive investigation and evaluation of Li Bai's life experience and life elements, with a view to approaching the true face of history.
Li Bai's researcher mainly quoted Li's Preface to the Collection of Caotang and Fan's Preface to the Tombstone of Hanlin Bachelor in Tang Dynasty. Li's preface to the collection of thatched cottage was written by Li Bai's contemporaries, and the content of his life experience should be dictated by Li Bai. When Fan prefaced, Li Bai's granddaughter accompanied Fan to preside over his grandfather's grave removal ceremony.
In principle, the two sequences are earlier and closely related to the parties, so they should both be authentic. However, due to the illusion caused by Li Bai's wild and uninhibited personality, he thinks that he climbed the dragon and attached the phoenix to raise his social status, and even more, because he refused to reveal the truth of his life until his death, the contents described in the two sequences have been ignored, not only unconvinced, but also questioned and suspected by many people.
Zhu Qiude said in the article: "Li Bai's life tragedy, as the son of the imperial clan who was demoted to the people, is doomed and no one can save it." The blood flowing around his ancestors made him eager to do something, but the sins suffered by his ancestors made him afraid to do something; He made great achievements and was afraid to expose his life experience, which made his spirit and behavior at the two ends of the first mouse between the height of the temple and the distance between the rivers and lakes. His life was spent in this contradiction, in the material wealth and spiritual shackles left by his ancestors. He is a dancer in chains, invisible to the world, only he knows. "
Fog of ancestral home
Longxi Ji Cheng
Li Bai's ancestral home is earlier than the ancient book "preface to the collection of thatched cottage": ... the public is in a hurry, and the manuscript is ten thousand volumes, and the collection is not repaired; Put Jane on the pillow and the rest in order ... Li Bai, the words are too white. Longxi became a disciplined person, and Liang was the grandson of IX. It's remarkable to be selected into your group again. Innocent in the middle term, living in exile, changing his surname and name. However, from Shun to the Five Dynasties, they were all ordinary. Unfortunately, there were not many obsidians in the past. At the beginning of the dragon, he fled to Shu, later referred to as Li Shu, and was born in Bo Yang. "
Li's Preface said: "Li Bai, whose word is Taibai, is from Longxi, the grandson of the ninth king of Liang." Hao Wei (Tang Qianjin visited Li Bai personally, and the two "met") "Preface to Li Hanlin Collection" said: "The white book is in Longxi, which is a form, because the family is in Mian." Fan Tombstone Theory: "The public name is white, and the words are too white. First, Longxi became a human being. Families without children find it difficult to find a family tree. " "The Book of the New Tang Dynasty" says: "Li Bai, whose word is too white, is the grandson of nine emperors. First of all, at the end of Sui Dynasty, he moved to the Western Regions because of his sin, and the dragon first returned and lived in Longxi. "
"Preface to the Monument" said: "The public name is white and the words are too white. First, Longxi became a human being. It is difficult for families without children to find genealogy. The son and granddaughter rummaged through the boxes and baskets and found that the dead son Boqin had dozens of lines in his hand, and the paper was rotten and the words were missing, so it was impossible to prepare them in detail. Let's make an appointment: Liang, the grandson of Wang IX. How difficult it was in the last years of Sui Dynasty. A room was smashed into pieces, scattered all over the floor, and the name was hidden. From the ancient county dynasty, it was leaked from the membership system. At the beginning, Shenlong sneaked into Guanghan because the overseas Chinese were from the county seat. Father and guest, in the name of guest, live in the clouds and do not seek official positions. The birth of the public also means that the first government refers to the compound surname of the sky. "
20 10 in March, Gansu scholar radar wrote an article "Li Bai's hometown in Qin' an, Gansu", and then organized activities such as netizens' signatures, which was quite lively.
Kyrgyzstan
Li Bai was born in Broken Leaf City, which is now Kyrgyzstan. At the age of five, he moved to Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province with his family. Li Bai's "Hanshu Jingzhou": "I used to be a civilian in Longxi, living in the land of Chu and Han", saying that my ancestral home was in Ji Cheng, Longxi (now Qin 'an County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province).
On June 29th, 2009, business counselor Zhu Sayef Gubang, the Kyrgyz Embassy in China, visited Anlu and said that Li Bai's hometown was in tokmak, Kyrgyzstan. He hoped that tokmak and Anlu could take Li Bai as a link, shoulder the responsibility of promoting Li Bai's culture and further expand economic and trade cooperation.
In fact, as early as June 5438 +2008 10, Rayev, Minister of Culture and Information of Kyrgyzstan, told the China media that the birthplace of Li Bai, the greatest poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, was tokmak, Kyrgyzstan, and they were negotiating with China to build a memorial statue for Li Bai to promote the economic cooperation of Li Bai's culture between the two countries. Zhu Sayef Kupang's visit to Anlu shows that Kyrgyzstan has realized the economic value contained in Li Bai's hometown and tried to share it. Subsequently, the two places initialled a series of cultural and economic cooperation intentions.