China News Service Client, Beijing, February 9 (Reporter Shangguan Yun) "The Road to Shu is Difficult" and "Wine Entering Wine"... Li Bai, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote many well-known poems, which have been passed down to this day.

Some people commemorate Li Bai on February 8, thinking that this day is his birthday; others hold different views.

　　Leaving aside the argument, Li Bai does have a lot of cold knowledge.

Some people think that he likes swordsmanship and is a martial arts master; some people say that he is a "travel control", and some even think that he is a "Pisces", so he is more sentimental.

Is he a martial arts master?

　　Li Bai is known as a "poetry fairy" in the literary world, but he should not be a weak scholar.

"New Book of Tang" mentioned that Li Bai "likes to be vertical and horizontal, and fencing is Ren Xia".

Drawing: Zhang Jianyuan

　　When he was young, Li Bai did practice swordsmanship.

In his "Book with Han Jingzhou", he said: "Since childhood, he has been a valiant man, and he has the ambition of the four directions. At the age of fifteen, he practiced swordsmanship."

　　It is said that he once studied under Pei Min, who is known as "the first swordsman of the Tang Dynasty", and also wrote poems such as "Three cups brush swords and dance in autumn moon, and suddenly sing high tears."

　　Therefore, many people have questioned: Li Bai, is he a martial arts master?

　　Scholar Zhang Guogang believes that Li Bai knows swordsmanship, but he is definitely not a martial arts master.

Judging from the existing records, Pei Min's sword dancing was an art at that time, and should not be regarded as martial arts. "Swordsmanship was an art to the ancients."

　　Indeed, Li Bai himself recorded an experience in his poems: he had gotten into a little trouble before and was almost beaten by "cockfighters".

At a critical moment, his friends helped him a lot, and finally he was able to get out of trouble.

　　Therefore, there is a view that Li Bai is not a master in the martial arts world, otherwise he would not be so embarrassed.

Love to travel?

　　Although he failed to become a martial arts master, Li Bai once came out of the circle with another feature, that is "travel".

When he was very young, he traveled to Jiangyou, Jiange and other places successively, and his knowledge increased.

Drawing: Zhang Jianyuan

　　When he was in his twenties, Li Bai chose to "go to the country with a sword, leave relatives and travel far away". After that, he spent a considerable amount of time in roaming.

Inquiring into the "Tang and Song Literature Chronicle Map", we can see that his footprints have been to Chongqing, Yueyang, Yangzhou, Wuhan, Nanyang and so on.

　　Regarding Li Bai's roaming experience, there was a saying, "As far as he travels, he is half of China."

　　His circle of friends is also expanding.

For example, Li Bai sailed east on the Yellow River from Chang'an.

Later, in Luoyang, he met the poet Du Fu and roamed together.

Later, they met the poet Gao Shi, and the three of them traveled together with great interest.

　　Zhang Guogang believes that Li Bai is indeed not an "otaku", and his roaming is related to various factors such as visiting friends and seeking victory. Later, during his travels, he had to rely on friends and fans to help him, so he was relatively poor.

poet who likes to drink

　　In addition to travel, another impression label left by Li Bai may be that he likes drinking.

During his lifetime, he wrote many popular poems, many of which were related to "wine".

　　For Li Bai, drink when the spring breeze is happy, drink when he is unhappy; drink when he is alone, and still drink when he is traveling.

After getting married, his habit of drinking seems to have not changed at all, and he often gets drunk.

Drawing: Zhang Jianyuan

　　For example, in the poem "Giving Neighbors", Li Bai once joked, "Three hundred and sixty days, every day is as drunk as mud. Although Li Bai's wife, He Yi is too often wife."

　　Li Bai, who loves to drink, seems to have a lot of alcohol. "It is fun to cook sheep and slaughter cattle, and you will have to drink 300 cups at a time."

He also wrote in "Xiangyang Song": "Cormorant scoop, parrot cup, 36,000 days in a hundred years, three hundred cups must be poured a day." He often drinks hard.

　　In fact, on the whole, Li Bai's life has not been smooth sailing, and there have been times when his career has failed.

But his literary achievements are famous all over the world, and many poems are familiar to everyone.

For him, it was also a success.

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