A translation of Li Bai s death, how Li Bai died

Li Bai was sixty-two years old when he died, and there are three versions of Li Bai's death in the world, one is that he died of natural illness; the second is to die from excessive drinking; The third is drunk and drowned. In history, Li Bai died shortly after returning from exile, no matter what the cause of death was, his death was not unrelated to the hardships he suffered in the second half of his life.

In the "Old Tang Book", it is recorded that Li Bai drank excessively, and finally died drunk in Xuancheng. The credibility of this point of view is still relatively high, after all, Li Bai has been addicted to alcohol all his life, and the world calls him an immortal, and Li Bai's poetry is also inseparable from the image of wine.

It is also said that Li Bai was dying of age and died of natural illness. It is recorded in historical materials that Li Bai was sixty-one years old, and he still wanted to make meritorious contributions and go into battle to kill the enemy, but because of serious illness, he had to turn back halfway, and finally died of illness at a friend's house.

The third theory about Li Bai's death is more common in folklore. This theory believes that Li Bai was drunk while watching the moon on the river, and wanted to jump into the water to catch the moon, but was drowned by the river.

Li Bai was seriously ill and died.

In the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (759), the imperial court announced a general amnesty due to a severe drought in Guanzhong, stipulating that the dead would be completely pardoned from the stream and below the stream. After a long period of wandering, Li Bai finally gained freedom. He then drove down the Yangtze River, and the famous song "Early White Emperor City" best reflected his mood at that time.

When he arrived in Jiangxia, because his old friend Liangzai was working as a local taishou, Li Bai stayed for a while. In the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Li Bai was invited by a friend to once again enjoy the moon on the Dongting with the degraded Jia Zhi, thinking about the ancient feelings and expressing his feelings in poetry. Soon, he returned to Xuancheng and Jinling.

For almost two years, he traveled back and forth between the two places, still living on people.

In the second year of Shangyuan, Li Bai, who was in his early sixties, returned to Jinling due to illness. In Jinling, his life was quite embarrassing, and he had no choice but to defect to his uncle Li Yangbing, who was a county magistrate in Dangtu. In the third year of Shangyuan, Li Bai was seriously ill, and handed over the manuscript to Li Yangbing on the sickbed, and passed away at the age of sixty-two.

Introduction to Li Bai

Li Bai (February 28, 701 to December 762), the word Taibai, the name Qinglian Jushi, also known as the "Qi Xianren", the great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty, was praised as the "poet immortal" by later generations, and Du Fu was called "Li Du", in order to distinguish it from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also called "Big Li Du". The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty records that Li Bai was a native of Shandong; According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was the ninth grandson of the Xingsheng Emperor Li Wei, and was the same ancestor as the kings of Li and Tang. He is hearty and generous, loves to drink and write poetry, and likes to make friends.

Li Bai has "Li Taibai Collection" handed down, most of the poems are written when he was drunk, and his representative works include "Wanglu Mountain Waterfall", "Difficult to Travel", "Shu Road Difficult", "Will Enter the Wine", "Early White Emperor City" and many other poems. Li Bai's lyrics have been bigraphed by the Song people (such as Wen Ying's "Xiangshan Yelu" volume), and in terms of its pioneering significance and artistic achievements, "Li Baici" enjoys a very high status.

Song of the road. Author] Don Leebai.

Dapeng Fei Zhen Eight Descendants, Zhongtian is not strong. The rest of the wind is agitated for eternity, and the tour Fusang hangs on the stone coat. Later generations have passed on this, and Zhongni is dead.

This "Song of the Road" is the work of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, this poem is Li Bai's last work after the illness, the lack of energy, when it is Li Bai's masterpiece, it can also be regarded as Li Bai's own epitaph, the poet compares himself with Dapeng, sighs the pathos of his life's ambition is not rewarded, revealing the incomparable nostalgia for life, betraying the group and failing to make the best use of the deep regret;

Let's take a look at this poem, at the beginning of the poem, [Dapeng Feixi Zhen Eight Descendants, Zhongtian Destruction is Weak], these two poems use the technique of comparison, artistically summarize Li Bai's life's struggle experience, and then look back, [The afterwind is agitated for eternity, and you Fusang Xi hangs on the stone coat], which means that although Dapeng is destroyed by the sky, its legacy can still stir up the eternal ages, in essence, it means that although the ideal is disillusioned, he is confident that his character and spirit will still have a huge impact on people from generation to generation;

In the end, the author wrote, [Later generations have passed on this, Zhong Ni died who is out of tears], the previous sentence is that the descendants got the news of Dapeng's death in the middle of the air, so as to pass it on, the latter sentence uses the allusion of Confucius crying Lin, but now that Confucius is dead, no one will cry for Dapeng's untimely death like he cried Qilin back then, these two sentences on the one hand believe that future generations will be infinitely sorry for this, on the other hand, sigh that there is no bosom friend in today's world;

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