When did I stop taking the name of my country? For example, Li Bai, the word is too white

The name of the poet fairy Li Bai can be said to be a household name, known to all ages. This literary giant, who once dominated the literary circle of the Tang Dynasty, left too many famous poems to the world. Although he has been more than a thousand years ago, Li Bai's name has been passed down from generation to generation, and his immortal poems have been compiled into textbooks.

Therefore, basically everyone can recite one or two of Li Bai's poems, and even kindergarten children will recite famous sentences like "Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown" in "Silent Night Thoughts".

So do you know how the name Li Bai, which everyone in the world knows, came about?

In this article, let's take a look at the origin of the name of the poet fairy Li Bai.

First, let's take a look at where Li Bai's hometown is.

Many sources say that he is from Sichuan. However, according to Guo Moruo and a group of scholars**, Li Bai may have been born in Broken Leaf City, which is now Kyrgyzstan. When Li Bai was five years old, he moved to Sichuan Province with his family.

On October 29, 2009, Zhusayev Gubang, Commercial Counselor of the Kyrgyz Embassy in China, visited Anlu, saying that Li Bai's hometown is in Tokmak City, Kyrgyzstan, and hopes that Tokmak and Anlu can take Li Bai as a link to jointly shoulder the responsibility of promoting Li Bai's culture, and further expand cooperation in economic and other aspects. It can be proved that Li Bai's hometown is Kyrgyzstan.

Second, the origin of Li Bai's name.

Regarding the origin of Li Bai's name, there are currently two theories circulating:

1. When Li Bai was seven years old, his father wanted to give him an official name. Because Li Bai's parents are also keen to read, their purpose is to train Li Bai to be a talented and knowledgeable literati, and they don't want him to become an ordinary man in the future. The father usually likes to teach his children to read books and write poems, and when he was thinking about choosing a name, he discussed it with his mother, and tested his son's ability to compose poetry while walking in the courtyard.

The father looked at the verdant trees in the courtyard in spring, like brocade flowers, and opened his mouth to chant poetry: "The spring country sends warm flowers and blooms, and it comes first to welcome the spring gold." Mother continued:

The fire burns the leaves and the forest is red and the sun falls". Li Bai knew that his parents had recited the first three lines of the poem, and deliberately left the last sentence, hoping that he would continue it. He walked up to the plum tree that was in full bloom, thought for a moment, and said

The plum blossom blooms and the tree is white". The word "white" in it speaks of the holiness and elegance of Li Hua. The father had an idea and decided to choose the words "Li" and "Bai" at the beginning and end of the wonderful sentence as his son's name, so he named his seven-year-old son "Li Bai".

2. In the preface of Li Yangbing's "Caotang Collection", it says: "Flee to Shu, and revert to Li Shu and give birth to Boyang." On the eve of the startling ginger, Chang Geng fell into a dream.

Therefore, he was born with a white name, and the word "ether white". Fan Chuanzheng's "Tang Zuo's Tombstone of Li Gongxin, a Bachelor of Hanlin", wrote: "The life of the public is also, the first prince refers to the heaven (Li) branch to restore the surname, and the first lady dreams of Chang Geng and tells the auspicious, the name and the word, the salty take the image."

According to these two historical records, Li Bai's name was the name given to Li Bai, who was born later, after his father returned to Sichuan to restore the surname Li. After Mother Li dreamed of Tai Bai Xing, she became pregnant, and gave birth to Li Bai in unbearable pains, and Li Bai's name is based on this.

The origin is because his father dreamed of Tai Bai Xing when he was sleeping at night, so he named his son Li Bai, which contains the father's expectations for his son.

The origin of the name of the poet fairy Li Bai has such a circulation, one is that when Li Bai was in a poem with his parents, he said "Li Hua blooms a tree white". The word "white" in it speaks of the holiness and elegance of Li Hua. The father had an idea and decided to compose Li Bai's name with the first and last words of the wonderful sentence; For Li Bai, it has the meaning of showing his personality, and his bold personality that is not stained by the mud has left many famous poems to the world.

It is said that when Li Bai caught Zhou when he was one year old, he grabbed a book of poetry. His father was very happy, thinking that his son might become a famous poet when he grew up, so he wanted to choose a good name for Li Bai so that future generations would not laugh at his lack of learning. Since he was cautious about naming his son, the more cautious he was, the more he couldn't think of it.

Until his son was seven years old, he hadn't figured out a suitable name. In the spring of that year, Li Bai's father said to his wife and children: I want to write a spring quatrain, only write two sentences, and your mother and son will add one sentence to me, make do."

One is that the spring breeze sends warmth and flowers bloom, and the other is that it comes first to welcome the spring and bloom. The mother thought for a while and said, "The fire burns the apricot forest and the red glow falls."

Li Bai waited for his mother to say, and without thinking, he pointed to the plum tree in full bloom in the courtyard and blurted out: The plum flower blooms and the tree is white. When the father heard this, he applauded, and sure enough, his son had a poetic talent.

The more he read it, the more he liked it, and as he read it, he suddenly thought to himself that the first word of this poem was not his own surname? This last white word is really well used, and it is saying that a plum tree is as holy as snow. So, he named his son Li Bai.