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The Tang Dynasty is the golden age of Chinese poetry, which boasts the most of Li Bai, a most dazzling star in the sky of the Tang poetry. www.1155815.com
Li Bai, polite name Taibai and poetic name Qinglianjushi (the Green Lotus Recluse), was born in Suiye City of Central Asia (present-day Tokmak, Kyrgyzstan) in 701. At five he moved with his father to Changlong, Mianzhou Prefect of the central Shu (present-day Jiangyou Country, Sichuan Province), where the beautiful landscape scenery imbued him with inspirations and outstanding qualities. In his childhood days he read extensively, “reciting the essentials for Chinese calligraphy at five and studying a hundred schools of thought at ten.” At fifteen he was something of a great master at his compositions. He also had a preference for swordsmanship and gallantry. At twenty-five he began to travel outside of Sichuan. During the year 742 (the first year of Tianbao) he came to the capital of Chang’an. Reading and highly praising his poem Hard Roads to Shu, the veteran poet He Zhizhang was overwhelmed by his literary talent and immortal qualities and addressed him as “the banished angel”. He was summoned by Emperor Tang Xuanzong to Chang’an to work as Gongfeng Hanlin (attendant to the sovereign as an academician of the Imperial Academy). However, being wild and arrogant by nature, he was envied and slandered by the chief eunuch Gao Lishi and Yang Guifei (guifei, title for imperial concubine with highest-rand) and soon was forced to leave the capital of chang’an. Later on he got employed as the adviser to the Prince of Li Lin during the An Lushan rebellion. After the army of the Prince of Li to usurp the throne was routed, he was banished for his implication in Li Lin’s plot to Yelang. However, he was pardoned on the way there and returned. In 762 he died from illness at Dangtu (present-day Dangtu, Anhui Province). Down dropped the dazzling star of illumining the arena of poetry! 民俗节庆网
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