Background
The year of Li Bai's birth is generally considered to be 701. He was born somewhere in Central Asia.
The year of Li Bai's birth is generally considered to be 701. He was born somewhere in Central Asia.
Taoist discipline, ancient martial art, ancient poetry
Li Bai is known as a Romantic Poet. Along with writing romantic poems about women, he romanticized nature.Li Bai apparently led a wild life. He is said to have killed people in martial arts challenges and personal duels.
He wrote about common things such as natural places and cities he saw, romance, war and death and things like this.Li Bai was a romantic in his view of life and in his verse. One of the most famous wine drinkers in China’s long tradition of imbibers, Li Bai frequently celebrated the joy of drinking. He also wrote of friendship, solitude, the passage of time, and the joys of nature with brilliance and great freshness of imagination.
Along with having a wild life, writing poems and getting into trouble politically, he worked in was a friend of the Emperor .Li Bo was given a post at the Hanlin Academy, which served to provide a source of scholarly expertise and poetry for the Emperor. He remained less than two years as a poet in the Emperor's service before he was dismissed for an unknown indiscretion.
Li was known for his romantic style of writing. He spent much of his time travelling around China.Much of Li's poetry alludes to the time he spent on his solitary travels.
The moon appears frequently in his poetry. And the moon Li Bai describes is bright and high in the sky—in keeping with his romantic style. The moon becomes a symbol of permanence in the ever-changing world—reminding the poet, of people and places dear to him.
Although Li Bai has now been gone for well over a millennium, his poetic descriptions of dreamlike landscapes illuminated by the moon have left a legacy in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Simon Elegant novelized Li Bai's life in his 1997 work, A Floating Life. Li Bai appears (under a fictional name) as a major character in Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven, a fantasy novel set in Tang Dynasty China.
MacDonald Harris' novel 'Herma' (Atheneum, 1981) refers to Li Bai under the name of Li Po, citing one of his poems and describing the reports of his death.
In both versions of Epcot's Circle-Vision 360° film in the China pavilion, Li Bai serves as the narrator and guide of the film.
A crater on the planet Mercury has been named after him.
He was married.
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Li Yangbing is notable for being the initial editor and compiler of the poetry of his kinsman, Li Bai; also for writing a preface to this which is important as one of the few primary historical sources on Li Bai.
