文档介绍：great poet
---Li Bai
Li Bai (Chinese: 李白, Lǐ Bái or Lǐ Bó; lived 701 – 762), also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially Li Po, was a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period.
Li Bai
He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing poems are attributed to him.[1] Thirty-four of his poems are included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
In the area of Chinese cultural influence, Li Bai's poetry has been much esteemed from his lifetime through the present day. His influence also extends to the West through many translations, adaptations, and much inspiration.
Early years
The young Li Bai, before twenty years of age, had fought and killed, apparently for reasons of chivalry, several men.
In 720, he was interviewed by Governor Su Ting, who considered him a genius. Though he expressed the wish to e an official, he never took the civil service examination
At Chang'an
Li Bai wrote several poems about the Emperor's beautiful and beloved Yang Guifei, the favorite royal consort.
At the persuasion of Yang Guifei and Gao Lishi, Ming Huang reluctantly, but politely, and with large gifts of gold and silver, sent Li Bai away from the royal court.
Final years and death
It was reported, from uncertain sources, that Li Bai drowned after falling from his boat when he tried to embrace the reflection of the moon in the Yangtze River, something later believed by Herbert Giles.
Works
Criticism of Li Bai's works has focused on his strong sense of the continuity of poetic tradition, his glorification of alcoholic beverages (and, indeed, frank celebration of drunkenness), his use of persona, the fantastic extremes of some of his imagery, his violations of formal poetic rules – and his ability bine all of these with a seeming effortless virtuosity in order to produce inimitable poetry.
Wine
Many of the Classical Chinese po