Wine enters the intestines, and seven points enter the moonlight. The remaining three points roared into a firm but gentle voice, and the embroidered mouth spit, which was already half of the Tang Dynasty. When it comes to the weather in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, only Li Bai can afford it. He traveled around the world, drinking and dancing swords all his life, and visiting immortals to ask questions. He really looks like a "fallen fairy".
Wild and uninhibited should be the background of Li Bai's life. It seems that people like him should not be free and easy. However, it is also a masterpiece "Into the Wine", which accidentally revealed all his secrets.
According to scholar Zhao Hailing's in-depth textual research, this poem is considered to be after "writing to Xu Haishan", that is, during the Tianbao period; Huang Xixuan's Chronicle of Li Taibai also proves that this poem is considered as Tianbao 1 1 year (752).
At that time, the prosperous Tang Dynasty was like a ripe fruit that was about to rot. In the seemingly prosperous and powerful songs, in the increasingly chaotic platform and in the increasingly sharp contradictions, everything is quietly changing. At this time, Li Bai was over 40 years old and his vitality had already faded.
Political frustration has made Li Bai, who has always been lonely, feel frustrated for the first time, and this also doomed the complicated mood of "drinking", just like a pot of boiling water, which can't be calm.
If all Li Bai's other drinking poems are spit out in wine, then "drinking wine" is brewed by him with his life and formed after various tastes in life.
Xiao said in the Supplement to the Classification of Li Taibai's Poems that this poem is based on the piccolo and cymbals of Han Yuefu, and "filled in to express its own meaning". At that time, Li Bai's "meaning" was no longer "laughing and going out", but it was difficult to express and there was nowhere to say. Therefore, although "Into the Wine" is still wrapped in Li Bai's chic pride, there is a touch of sadness between the lines.
Like most literati in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Bai is also a figure who yearns for temples and is eager to add a touch of splendor to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He also wants to "talk and laugh" and "finally settle down." However, he did not take the scientific research path generally chosen by scholars at that time. The reason is that there is nowhere to be found after thousands of years. In short, he and scientific research have abandoned each other. From then on, he had to find another way out and do his best.
For political ambition, Li Bai went to Chang 'an twice in his life.
The first time was in Kaiyuan 18 (730), when he was 30 years old. At this time, when the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, Jie Jun from all over the world wanted to make its debut and perform colorful performances on the stage when all countries came to Korea and the weather was at its peak.
Li Bai is even more so. Meet the Prime Minister Zhang in Chang 'an, present the poem princess, get to know each other, and walk towards your ideal step by step. Frankly speaking, he went to the dock. Finally, at the age of 33 (kaiyuan 2 1 year) and 35 (kaiyuan 23), I got two opportunities to present gifts to Xuanzong. Li Bai catered to the interests of Xuanzong, and sought an official position by giving Xuanzong a clear ambition. However, Li Bai finally failed. After staying in Chang 'an for several years, he chose to leave temporarily.
When he re-entered Chang 'an, it was the first year of Tianbao (742), 4 1 year. What I suffered in Chang 'an for the first time finally worked this time.
He was recommended by Princess Yu Zhen and Mr. He Lao, who called him "fallen fairy", and was finally called into the palace. At this point, he finally climbed to the top of the day and night. These days are really the most brilliant time in his life. Xuanzong greeted him at the next step, "Give food to the Qibao bed and scoop it yourself". Gao Lishi took off his boots for it, and the imperial concubine grinded ink for it and gave him a palace brocade robe. ...
However, offering sacrifices to Hanlin, eating lavishly and enjoying fame are actually the captive life of emperors and literati, which is far from the ambition of great ambition and great virtue. Gradually, Li Bai got bored. At the same time, Li Longji, a wise Xuanzong for half his life, gradually lost his original heart. He arrogantly thinks it's time to sit down and enjoy it. In other words, he began to give himself almost nothing.
Li Longji began to slack off politically, indulging in debauchery, listening to the words of yes-men, and spending money like water. Li Bai, full of patriotism, is in the palace. I am extremely disappointed to see his bohemian appearance every day. The idea of leaving comes from his heart, and he is also very passive and tired at work. Then the courtiers crowded out, the king alienated, and Li Bai was cold. "Paying back the money" is just a logical conclusion, leaving a face for the other party.
After leaving Chang 'an, Li Bai lived a comfortable life of "Let me raise a white deer on my green slope, and ride to you, Dashan, when I need you". Everyone knows that Li Bai is a dragon in the sea and a tiger in the mountains, but they don't know that there is a sad heart hidden under Li Bai's seemingly free and easy appearance. This "worry" is brewing and fermenting day by day. In the end, it was difficult to control it and spit it out, so I wrote "Into the Wine".
After the most difficult climb, I have seen the top scenery, enjoyed the highest honor, and felt the deepest frustration and complicated taste. His "drinking" belongs to him and is irreplaceable.
If entering Chang 'an is only a personal failure, then entering Chang 'an is a double failure of the individual and the court. It is this double failure that has created the peak of Li Bai's personal "worry" history.
In the vast space of "drinking", he drinks for a while and is realistic for a while, crying for a while and laughing for a while, which is inextricably linked. He looks magnificent, but his heart is full of worries; He said he could see through it, but in fact he couldn't let go; Looking back on this life, he thought that time and tide wait for no man, the end had come, but he was unwilling; He calls friends, seemingly lively, but in fact lonely as the sea; He looked around and didn't know where to go ... he was so abnormal and not free and easy.
Li Bai is famous for his boldness and romance. As long as he is in the wine, he seems to be able to forget the time and be young all his life. But this time is different. Li Bai is anxious about time, sad about old age and helpless about passing away. He has always been free and easy and arrogant, and he has completely disappeared in front of this powerful time opponent.
He turned into a little old man, shaking his hands, pointing to the water in the distance, pointing to the hair in the mirror, sobbing and singing: "Did you see me? How did the water of the Yellow River move out of heaven and into the ocean, never to return?" I can't see you, how lovely you are locked in a bright mirror in a high room, although the silky black turns into snow in the morning and at night. "
Time, like the surging Yellow River, is gone forever. It sent away hair and brought white hair, as if it had finished this life in the dusk.
Only those who have ideals and ambitions can appreciate the speed of time. Li Bai thinks he is a talented person. "When he goes out, he will make peace with the princes, and when he runs away, he will overlook the nest." Now, the ideal has fallen from the high clouds, and my blood has solidified.
Only those who are dissatisfied with the past will be so sad about the passage of time. Li Bai was determined to win all his life and tried his best to realize his ambition of "Dapeng", but in the end he was just a canary. Growing up in a boudoir, I was good at singing and dancing, obsessed with money and paper, and wrote completely embroidered articles. He can write well, but he disdains it.
A scholar with political ambition can use his pen as a sword and a spokesman for ordinary people, but in the end, his pen just made an embroidery needle in the palace and embroidered several brocade for the luxurious and flashy life in the palace. Of course he is not satisfied.
All kinds of emotions are piling up, but now that China has been born, time is running out. Li Bai is always worried and sad from the heart.
He is Li Bai who "the son of heaven does not board the ship"; He is Li Bai who "read fifteen wonderful books and endowed Ling Xiangru". He is Li Bai in "I am a madman in Chu" and sang a crazy song of "Debating Confucius"; He is Li Bai who "happily put pen to paper and shook the five mountains, and became a proud poet in Cangzhou"; He is Li Bai, who goes out laughing, and my generation is Artemisia. He is Li Bai who is "Oh, how can I bow and scrape to high officials" ... In short, he despises Confucius and Sima Xiangru, the son of heaven and powerful people, and his arrogance is beyond measure.
But in fact we have a deep misunderstanding about him. Fame and fortune have been bothering him, and he has never let go. He once wrote a poem saying, "When you do something, brush off your clothes and go deep into anonymity." He doesn't want to treat "body and name", but "concealment". He has been fighting for fame and fortune all his life.
"Since god gave talent, let it be hired! , spin a thousand silver, all come back! " . He has been a truly confident man all his life. Although he was disappointed with the court and reality, he still hoped to make use of it. In this extreme self-confidence, there is his extreme desire for official career and fame.
"Those who are sober in ancient times have forgotten all the sages, and only big drinkers are famous for their eternal life." He envies "drinkers" and wants to learn from them and get drunk, for nothing but "leaving a name"! He doesn't want to be lonely.
He is very talented, and his arrogance is the arrogance of strength. Therefore, in his forties and fifties, he is still unwilling. He said, "Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he wants to go, and don't point his golden cup at the moon empty!" " In his mouth, but not in his heart. He doesn't want to go with the flow. No one knows his sadness and bitterness. CenXun and Yuan Danqiu sitting opposite don't know either. This seemingly lively scene actually hides deep loneliness. How to relieve anxiety-wine. How to become a bosom friend-wine?
He thought of old Chen Boer. Wang Chen Cao Zhi, praised by Xie Lingyun as "one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian occupies eight fights". Cao Zhi is very similar to him, and he is also a talented person who is hard to meet with poetry and wine.
When Cao Zhi was young, he was deeply loved by his father Cao Cao because of his brilliance. Fighting side by side with my father, full of blood, meritorious service is just around the corner. Later, it was "Fu" ("Fu on the Stage"). However, success also led to Xiao He's failure. Talent made him and hurt him, because he was unrestrained and frivolous, and Cao Zhi was finally alienated by his father and let go by the prince.
Empty is full of talent and ambition, and Cao Zhi can't let go until he is old. Even when his nephew Cao Chui played, he remained steadfast and wanted to be reused. Of course, it's not.
"Prince Chen bought a barrel of wine with 10,000 coppers at a banquet in the palace, which made many people laugh." What Li Bai envied was not the scene of carpe diem, but the hopeful past. Like Cao Zhi, you can't be calm when you are old. We think that seeing through and not caring is actually Li Bai's deep concern and concern.
"Zhuangzi Tian Zifang" has a cloud: "The husband's sorrow is greater than the heart's death; Death is second. " Faced with such a reality and situation, Li Bai should probably be "heartbroken". But he didn't.
His heroic spirit of "cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle" and refusing to exchange "five flowers and a thousand gold furs" for wine always make us feel that he is a "broken jar" after feeling good, but it is not.
While he squandered his daughter, he believed in "spinning a thousand pieces of silver, and returning them all!" ; And talking about "what are bells and drums, delicacies and treasures?" He despises the life of the rich, but at the same time, he "hopes that he will never wake up after being drunk for a long time", trying to escape from reality by being drunk for a long time and refusing to face reality.
His heart is not dead. Although the thread has withered, it is still waiting for the miracle of dead wood in spring. As soon as the rain falls, Li Bai, who is full of lofty sentiments, will set off again.
It has been more than ten years since Li Bai died. The years that followed were Li Bai's best evaluation of "entering the wine".
Li Bai has a thousand reasons to retire. He regarded feudalism as a cage and longed for freedom. He despises powerful people and is purely spontaneous. He saw clearly the darkness of reality and the corruption of state affairs, and was extremely desperate; He has tasted all kinds of flavors and is on the verge of poverty.
However, he did not retire from the countryside like Tao Yuanming, but continued to wander around the world, dealing with political affairs and entrusting his body and mind. For more than ten years, Li Bai has never been at peace in his heart. Even though I live in Lushan Mountain, I am still waiting for the opportunity to help the world. Going to the border of Youzhou, I also want to make contributions at the border. Anyone who hears about state affairs will burst into tears. In poetry and prose, the feeling of talent is often revealed.
The most prominent thing is that he entered the screen and became the eternal king Li Lin. Li Lin's repeated employment is only his "appearance", and "Li" is what Li Bai has never let go of. He thinks this is a good opportunity to get out of the mountain. But fate played a trick on Li Bai again. It wasn't long before Wang Yong was defeated and Li Bai, who was implicated, was jailed. Although after many rescues by friends, Li Bai was finally released from prison after a narrow escape, but the fate of wandering doomed him to a long night of wandering.
Is Li Bai not free and easy? No, he has always been free and easy.
Is Li Bai free and easy? He has never been free and easy.
Looking back on Into the Wine, I realize that Li Taibai's contradictions are intertwined, and his emotions are intertwined.
Li Bai, who is free and easy at any time, deserves to be remembered in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. And a less free and easy Li Bai may be more worthy of being remembered by future generations.
I prefer Li Bai, who is full of flesh and blood but less free and easy, to Xian Xian.