First of all, there were many people who worked harder than Li Bai in ancient times? I don't know about other fields. As far as literature is concerned, I have never seen anyone who works harder than Li Bai. Many people think that Li Bai seems to have fallen from the sky, and even interpret it as Li Bai never reads. I don't know that Xueba said he didn't read much, but he was very polite to you. He doesn't know how hard he is working behind his back, making them more forced and anesthetizing scum. Why not?
Not to mention the story of his seclusion in Kuangshan when he was a child, even when he was waiting for the imperial edict of Hanlin, it was time to learn to "ban in the morning and wait for the imperial edict of Jinmen in the evening". Reading is scattered, exploring the ancient and the poor. "
Anyone who knows more about Li Bai's poems and songs will know that Li Bai's poems are full of knowledge, and his poems are borrowed from predecessors everywhere. If you don't learn, how can you come? For example, "Ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles to stay", to borrow "Zhuangzi said the sword": "I take ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles to stay."
Reading any version of Taibai's complete works, the notes and omissions are magnificent enough to prove that Taibai is a scholar. And with so many books, you can't always take them with you. If you are interested in poetry, you should write them, which shows that the poet not only learns a lot, but also knows them by heart. Isn't that what you're striving for? How can Li Bai write good poems even if he has nothing to do all day? You only saw his poems flourish after he became famous, but you didn't see his thick hair before he became famous.
Secondly, Li Bai doesn't live very chic every day, or even most of the time. Otherwise, how can it be "white hair and three thousands of feet, and sorrow is like a beard"? In fact, Taibai is also an unpleasant thing. His seemingly chic poems are just used to cover up his inner anxiety. If you are really not worried, can you "share your worries forever"? The people who really don't worry about it are all "egrets flying on the side of Mount Cisse, peach blossoms flowing and mandarin fish fat". Zhang Cai is a real Taoist, and he exudes a sense of leisure everywhere. This is really chic, but if it's really chic, it's tasteless. The uniqueness of Taibai lies in pretending to be natural and unrestrained to cover up his uneasiness. The words are wild and refreshing to read, but it is not really easy to let go.
Finally, back to the topic, why is Li Bai famous?
Li Bai became famous first because of his strength. People who can write these poems should be celebrities:
It breaks my heart to see geese flying south, and the distant mountains are in the title of a good month.
Green mountains and trees in the distance, green colors and cold smoke.
Spring breeze and warm clouds bring the fragrance of orchids, and peach blossoms fall into the river to form layers of brocade waves.
The rain washed the autumn mountain clean, and the forest was beautiful.
The green hills on both sides are neck and neck, and a boat meets leisurely from the horizon.
Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls filled with amber light.
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If you want to ask "Why is Li Bai more famous than other poets", this question seems to be better. I will focus on this problem.
Li Bai is more famous than other poets. First, of course, he is better than most poets. Since ancient times, nothing can be compared with Li Bai in poetry except Qu Yuan, Tao Yuanming and Du Fu. Qu Yuan's words are really hard to understand, and Tao Yuanming's works are few. For thousands of years, only Du Li has the biggest title.
At the same time, Li Bai is a legendary symbol, and many things are so unreasonable. There are many legendary writers in the history of China, such as Li Bai, Su Shi, Tang Bohu, Xie Jin and Ji Xiaolan, who are all portrayed as romantic talents. Some of them were excellent at that time, while others were puzzling. People's understanding of Tang Bohu is far deeper than that of Li Dongyang and Xu Zhenqing in the same period. Even in the whole Ming Dynasty, Tang Bohu was the spokesman of romantic talents, but in fact, he was far from the representative of the Ming Dynasty in terms of both literary achievements and calligraphy achievements.
These people, they are actually "symbols" spontaneously shaped by the people. What symbols are they? A symbol of contempt for power and authority. It represents the "anti-oppression" voice of the bottom people since the Millennium. Driven by this desire, three kinds of spokesmen were born.
One is the absolute embodiment of justice that pleads for the people, such as Hehai. They are serious images, full of righteousness, ready to die with the dark forces.
The other is a romantic, humorous and witty symbol of literati's anti-authority. These people have been shaped into performance art, that is, I said Li Bai, Su Shi, Ji Xiaolan and so on.
The third type is chivalrous. Chivalrous culture has never been cut off in Chinese civilization. It's not that there really were chivalrous people in all previous dynasties, but that ordinary people are eager to see the uneven road and draw out their swords to help each other. For example, a monk named Jigong, such as Zhan Zhao.
Li Bai is more famous because of the anti-authority needs of the people. How many poems do ordinary people know about Li Bai? As long as we know that he is "Oh, how can I solemnly bow and scrape to those high-ranking officials whose sincere faces will never be seen", we will not think about the meaning behind this poem. They don't need to know about this unwilling poet, but they also wrote those disgusting flatteries:
I heard that there are many scholars in the world, so I said, "I don't need Wan Huhou in my life, but I hope to know Jingzhou in North Korea." What an admirable sight! As for this! Don't follow the wind of the duke of Zhou, bow down and spit, so that domestic heroes, running back, once on the Longmen, reputation is ten times. Therefore, the people of Longpan Fengyi,
You make god, you are virtuous in heaven and earth, your pen is natural, and you are pedant in heaven and man.
Fu Hou, noble and virtuous, sharp-eyed, with braided teeth and coagulated skin, Zhao, if Yushan goes up, looks like a man. Gao Yi kept his promise, made a name for himself and flew to Beijing to be a vassal of the Quartet. The sword is generous and dry. The monthly expenses are thousands, and the daily banquet guests are full, and the horse leaps into the beauty of Luo. Wherever they are, guests and friends become cities.
Fu Wei "xianggong", open emblem, bright world. Enter the room of the real dragon and hold the right of nature. An Shi Gao pillow, a lifetime back. ……
So naturally, Li Bai became the spokesman of anti-authority, and other aspects of Li Bai were automatically filtered. However, if you read more about Li Bai, you won't come to the conclusion that Li Bai despises powerful spokesmen. But it doesn't matter. People are good at screening. With so many official materials, Sue was still labeled as a traitor.
The first step is to find someone who has certain characteristics and conforms to the image of despising the powerful. The second step is to make up stories about him to deepen this image, and then to discard the false and retain the true.
Li Bai's contemporaries only recorded the story of Li Bai being drunk and Xuanzong feeding himself. Xuanzong wanted to show his pro-people side at that time. In fact, Xuanzong was really easy-going to those literati, painters and musicians. At the same time, they all made it clear that they were expelled from Beijing because of Zhang Yang's slander, and they participated in the Wang Yong Uprising with the help of Cui Huan and Song Re-si.
However, regardless of these, by the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the common people hated eunuchs. Then Lux took off her boots. Gao Lishi is a eunuch. Someone must have insulted the eunuch so much, and it must be Li Bai. They also don't understand that a good eunuch should be treated differently from a bad eunuch.
Later, the legend that Li Bai saved Guo Ziyi appeared, which proved that Li Bai was not only a scholar, but also a master with a keen eye. Then he made up such a strange story that Guo Ziyi repaid the kindness and saved Li Bai. Anyway, Guo Ziyi is also a celebrity among the people. If someone asks, Guo Ziyi and Li Bai are contemporaries, one defending the country and the other despising the powerful, so they have no stories. Then you have to make something up.
Then it became more and more intense. In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong, who was also a romantic genius, compiled the legendary story of Li Bai's "Li Chenxian Drunken Grass Amazing". The story of "Guo Zhong Mo Mo" is added here (Feng Menglong probably selectively filtered the words of Li Bai and Yang). Ordinary people especially feel inadequate, and Yang Guifei is also considered by later generations to be a generation that has wronged the country and the people. How can such a despicable thing be less than her? So it evolved into "the imperial concubine studied ink" and sent Yang Zhiyan instead.
These legendary anecdotes of Li Bai are not only praised by the people, but also adopted by some literati. Because in Du Li's debate for thousands of years, most people always praise Du Fu. With these materials, the sanctity of Li Bai has been improved, and it is also conducive to litigation. Even the column "Lecture Room" is full of flavor.
To say that Li Bai is famous, Li Bai who lives in a fabricated legend is more famous than the real Li Bai. The real "pretending to be cute" Li Bai is far less acceptable than Li Bai who can make Lux take off his boots.
Is this fame a poet's luck or a poet's sorrow? No, probably because I have read too many such legendary stories, I think Li Bai has been handsome all his life.