The Great Peng Fei Xi Zhen eight descendants, Zhongtian destroy Xi Xi power is not good. The rest of the wind is agitated for all ages, and the hibiscus is like hanging a stone robe. Later generations can pass this on, who will cry when Zhongni dies?
This is the last poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, “The Dying Song”. Li Bai’s own epitaph.
Speaking of Li Bai, there are three very striking personal labels on him, namely: poetry, wine and sword. Poetry, needless to say, everyone knows, and besides poetry, of course, it is wine. Li Bai is also known as the “wine fairy”, and his reputation for drinking is no less than that of poetry. Finally, there is “sword”. Li Bai’s swordsmanship is very good. , when he was young, he even dreamed of being a swordsman who traveled around the world, and he wrote about the “sword” in many of his poems.
Li Bai
In addition to “poetry”, “wine” and “sword”, there is another word on Li Bai, which is “madness” – arrogant madness. The most widely circulated is the story of “The Lux takes off his boots”: it is said that once, after Li Bai was drunk, he was suddenly summoned into the palace by the Emperor Tang and asked him to write a poem for Concubine Yang Gui.
At that time, Li Bai was drunk because of his drunkenness, so his clothes were not neat. Of course he could not see the imperial concubine because of his drunken clothes. So the emperor rewarded Li Bai with a new set of clothes. Li Bai was so drunk that he couldn’t even change his clothes by himself. He didn’t expect Li Bai to use his alcoholism to call Gao Lishi to take off his boots in public.
Li Bai
Who is Collis? He was the most favored eunuch of the emperor in the dynasty. It can be said that he was under one person and more than ten thousand people. No one dared to offend him, but Li Bai was so crazy. In the presence of the emperor, Gao Lishi had no choice but to obediently take off his boots for Li Bai, which also left behind the allusion of “luxuries take off their boots”, which is used to describe the arrogance and unrulyness of literati who are not afraid of the powerful.
It is not necessarily true that Lux takes off his boots, but Li Bai’s arrogance is absolutely true. When he was 20 years old, Li Bai wrote a poem “Dapeng Fu”, comparing himself to a Dapeng flying high.
Li Bai
What is Dapeng? It is a very large divine bird described by Zhuangzi in his Xiaoyaoyou. Of course, when we look at Li Bai’s life now, it is indeed like a majestic Dapeng flying forward and flying high. In “The Dying Song”, the first sentence is “Dapeng Fei Xi Zhen Ba descendants”, because this is a portrayal of his life.
Unfortunately, no matter how powerful the Dapeng is, it has finally arrived at the time when “Zhongtian’s power is not enough” and flew to a certain height. In time, his wings were broken, so when Li Bai had a hunch that he would soon die, he wanted to compose a song for himself on his deathbed. Next, he wrote: Yu Feng is irritating all the world, and the fusang is like hanging on the left jacket. Later generations can pass this on, who will cry when Zhongni dies?
Li Bai
It means that although Dapeng has broken its wings and has no strength to fly, its spirit of flying can even inspire ten thousand years. The people who came after, however, he was very emotional, saying that when future generations heard the news of the fall of Dapeng, who would cry for me like Confucius cried for me?
Confucius’ crying is a very famous allusion, because the unicorn is a divine beast, Confucius saw someone captured a unicorn in Lu State, so he I feel extremely sad and regretful for the untimely birth of Kirin. Li Bai compares himself to Dapeng, and he also has a feeling that he was born at an untimely time and that his bosom friend is hard to find, so he has the sigh of “who will cry when Zhongni dies”.
Li Bai
So what does Li Bai’s dying song want to leave us? Li Bai’s dying song has left a profound inspiration to the world. The first thing he left for us to think about is the spirit and strength of “Dapeng Fei Xi Yu Feng Ji”. Everyone should spread their wings and fly in the wind like Li Bai. , chasing your dreams;
The second is to go all out to not leave regrets in your life. In fact, Li Bai wrote this dying song At the time, I still felt a little regret about my life. I think this is probably some inspiration and thinking that Li Bai wants to leave to the world.