Li Bai's Life Turn And Literature

Li Bai was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty and a genius in the history of Chinese literature.He pushed the art of Chinese poetry to the top.Li Bai's life-long heart is strong,but he has experienced three setbacks in the pursuit of achievements:he first came back to Chang'an and fell,appointed as Hanlin Gongfeng but demoted with reimbursement,and he was imprisoned and exiled by serving as a staff adviser to Prince Yong.The three important milestones in his life have a great impact on his creation.In the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan,a scandal caused by family conflicts caused Li Bai to fall into a slanderous situation and turn to Chang'an.However,as seek favour subject's status became lower and lower,Li Bai's situation became increasingly embarrassed,which made him have a deep understanding of the difficulties of the world.In his works,he always possessed unrecognized talents and criticized the current disadvantages.New themes and deep connotations,and a more rebellious spirit inspired by the bumpy road of seeking jobs make his poems show a magnificent momentum and majestic power.In this period,Li Bai is dedicated to the world.He often promises to be the assistant minister who finally meets the monarch and the minister after repeated distress.He rarely compares himself to the literati and the hermit,and clearly conveys his self-positioning and spiritual sustenance.The performance range of Yuefu and Singing has expanded from the folk customs since leave Shu to memorizing,chanting history,expressing ambitions,and becoming the poetry genre with the largest proportion and most famous articles in this period.Li Bai grew up in Jingyun and early Kaiyuan age,when the poetry style of Tang Dynasty was changed most significant.He was influenced by mainstream poets such as Su Ting,Zhang Yue,and Liu Zhiji as a teenager.After entering Chang'an,his literary style was basically mature.In the autumn of the first year of Tianbao,Li Bai came to the capital as a member of Hanlin academy.However,he was recommended by Princess Yuzhen and had the opportunity to get to know He Zhizhang and get the attention of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang,mainly because of his Taoist identity and Taoist beliefs.The courtier experience dedicated to Hanlin and the regretful experience of giving back gold have brought new changes to Li Bai's creation.In the beginning,he sincerely polished the royal literature creation,praised the prosperous times,sang carols in the palace banquet,and boasted that he is not like he was now.Until he was alienated by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang,he felt the double pain of falling out of favor and insufficiency and began to express his fears in the image of female.In his works,the three themes of official conflict,drinking to relieve sorrow,and seeking immortality were formed.Li Bai's surrendered works have an irrepressible sorrow,depression,and injustice.The hermit-seeking works clearly show the color of being forced to hide,and the works of happiness and sorrow are full of depression and injustice,from time to time,show sentimentally attached to the capital.In addition,the image of Taoist priests who used medicine to remedy the alchemy replaced the monks who wanted to refine the alchemy in previous works.The exile life experience gave birth to a brand-new image of lyrical protagonist-chasing the minister.The wandering soul is transformed into lonely images such as erigeron,duckweed,lonely phoenix and guest in poetry.The reliable motivation of Li Bai became a staff adviser to Prince Yong is join the advisory board by invitation,expect to put off An Lushan's rebel and advocate for Prince Yong.The argument of join advisory board by force was an excuse to acquit crime.The unfortunate encounter of prison and deportation has severely affected Li Bai's physical and mental health.New themes of complaints of grievances and longing for the forgiveness and pardon appear in his works.Family affection and homeland have become important contents,and the focus on the current situation has become deeper and more specific.The changes in his self-confidence and passion,that is,the sudden drop after prison,the rise after release,the fall when facing the risk of being held accountable by the court,the decline again during the exile,and the rapid recovery after pardon,make the works at this stage emotional and imposing,all show the characteristics of ups and downs.On the way to exile,Li Bai's writing volume plummeted,and the length of his poems became shorter.During the period from prison to pardon,he deviated from the retro path,and the proportion of metrical poems mainly based on the theme of friendship increased.His Yuefu linked verse,Jixing linked verse and Chronicles linked verse,had grown more mature.After being released from prison and pardoned in exile,Li Bai returned to the retro path and wrote a lot of lengthy ancient poems.He reconstructed his self-image in the memory of the past to adjust his distressed situation and strive for the opportunity to enter the government.Marriage played an important role in Li Bai's three transitions in life.He didn't join Xu and Zong's family.The marriage order was "Lady Xu,Lady Liu,a woman from Shandong——a woman from Shandong,Lady Zong".His wife and concubine coexist in time.Taking the three transitions in life as the boundary,the character image of Li Bai's marriage and love poems shows a clear change,reflecting his marriage and emotional situation in different periods.Based on the first came back to Chang'an and fell,appointed as Hanlin Gongfeng and demoted with reimbursement,Li Bai made two adjustments in the way of writing marriage and love poems.The former is characterized by lyric typification,and the latter is gradually transformed into concrete expression.Li Bai's marriage and love poems were deeply influenced by the five-character love poems of the Han Dynasty,and the poetry of the Wei,Jin and Southern Dynasties,especially the nourishing and edifying of New songs of the Jade Terrace.Li Bai's several transitions in his life not only influenced his career and fame,but also profoundly affected his emotions and spirit,and further produced corresponding changes in the content,themes,genres,and styles of his works.