During the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, known as the prosperous Tang Dynasty in history. This period was also the heyday of poetry creation. During this period, there appeared a romantic poet Li Bai and a realistic poet Du Fu, who were two superstars in the poetry world.

Li Bai, with the word Taibai, was originally from Chengji, Longxi (now Tianshui, Gansu Province). At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the family moved to the broken leaves of the western regions (in the northern part of what is now the Kyrgyz Republic), where Li Bai was born. At the age of five, he moved with his father to Qinglian Township, Changlong, Mianzhou (now Jiangyou, Sichuan Province), so he was also called Qinglian Lay Scholar.

When Li Bai was a teenager, he showed his talent. "At the age of ten, he knew poetry and books," "fifteen good swordsmanship", and "thirty percent of his articles (at the age of thirty, he was famous all over the world for his poetry and prose)." At the age of twenty-five, Li Bai left Sichuan, went east along the Changjiang River, and first arrived at Jiangling, where he visited an eighty-year-old Taoist priest, Sima Chengzhen. Sima Chengzhen was received by Wu Zetian and the emperors of Ruizong and Xuanzong, and was very famous at that time. Sima Chengzhen met Li Bai and praised him greatly. Li Bai was very happy, and when he returned, he wrote a "Fu of Dapeng", comparing himself to the ambitious Dapeng. The "Fu of Dapeng" quickly spread, and Li Bai became even more famous. In 734 AD, Li Bai went to Xiangyang and paid homage to Han Dynasty, the governor of Jingzhou. Han Chaozong was famous for his love of rewarding and promoting talents, so there was a saying at that time: "If you don't want to be a prince, I hope you will know Han Jingzhou." Han Chaozong naturally praised Li Bai, and Li Bai's self-recommendation letter "Letter with Han Jingzhou" also became a famous prose masterpiece.

Li Bai, who was famous all over the world, finally came to Chang'an, Kyoto in 742 AD (the first year of Tianbao). The old poet He Zhizhang, who was a secretary and a young supervisor at that time, learned that Li Bai had arrived in Chang'an and went to the hostel to visit Li Bai in person. After reading Li Bai's "The Road to Shu" written about ten years ago, he exclaimed: "This is an immortal who was relegated from the sky!" Since then, the title "Zhexian" has spread like wildfire, and Li Bai has also been called "Zhexian" and "Poetry Immortal".

After Li Bai entered the palace, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was very happy and named him as a priest for Hanlin. It is said that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang personally walked down the steps to greet Li Bai and prepared soup for Li Bai. Out of trust, he also let Li Bai to participate in the drafting of the imperial edict.

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang only hoped that Li Bai would become a court poet and write some poems for the peaceful and prosperous era. But Li Bai was a man with lofty ambitions. When he first entered the palace, he did not know much about politics, so he was ordered to write a lot of poems praising Shengping, and soon his thinking changed. During the Tianbao period, the court politics had turned from prosperous to declining, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang gradually transformed from a generation of Mingjun to a mediocre lord. People with insight into the court are worried about current politics and worried about chaos. Li Bai is aware of this.

As a famous poet all over the world, Li Bai's personality is also very wild. He is also very fond of drinking alcohol, and he often gets drunk. Du Fu once described him in a poem: "Li Bai has hundreds of poems about fighting wine, and he sleeps in a restaurant in Chang'an City. The Son of Heaven can't come to the boat, and he claims to be immortal in wine." Such a personality makes it difficult for him to be tolerated by the powerful people of the dynasty. It is said that he first offended the eunuch Gao Li, the most trusted eunuch of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. Gao Li also deliberately distorted his poem "Qingping Diao", so that Concubine Yang Guifei also hated him. In the end, even the Emperor Xuanzong of Tang also alienated him.

But Li Bai's personality made him "An Neng is very powerful, so I can't be happy!" At this time, what he most yearned for was the free life he used to travel the world. Li Bai wrote to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang to ask to leave the capital. In 745 AD, his request was approved, and he left Chang'an and began to roam the mountains and rivers again.

In 755 AD, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. Luoyang and Chang'an fell into the hands of the chaotic army one after another. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled to Sichuan in a hurry, and Tang Suzong ascended the throne to Lingwu. During the escape, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang appointed his sixteenth son Yongwang Li as the governor of Jiangling, and asked Yongwang to recruit troops to resist the rebels going south.

At that time, Li Bai lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain. Yongwang passed through Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province) and learned that Li Bai had sent someone to invite him to his shogunate. Out of patriotism, Li Bai immediately agreed and wrote eleven songs in praise of Yongwang.

However, Tang Suzong did not trust Yongwang, thinking that he was separating himself from Jiangnan when he left for the Eastern Tour, so he mobilized his troops to prepare for the destruction of Yongwang. Yongwang was furious and also sent troops to attack. In this way, he became a rebel, the soldiers left one after another, and Yongwang finally committed suicide. Li Bai was also sentenced to death for "supporting" (supporting rebellious ministers). Thanks to the rescue of Guo Ziyi and others, Li Bai was sentenced to exile Yelang (ruled in what is now the northwest of Zhengan, Guizhou). Before Yelang arrived, the court announced an amnesty, and Li Bai was able to return to Sichuan.

Li Bai spent his later years in Dangtu, Anhui, where his uncle, Li Yangbing, was a county magistrate. After the emperor of the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, he issued an edict to worship Li Bai as the left heir. But before the edict arrived, Li Bai had passed away at the age of sixty-two. To this day, there are still Li Bai's clothes mound and memorial hall in the local area. There are more than a thousand poems extant by Li Bai, a large part of which is his praise for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. These poems were exaggerated by him, and the imagination was peculiar. They are majestic and superb. He also wrote many poems that reflect the lives of the people and criticize dark politics. He is good at absorbing nutrients and materials from folk songs and myths. Through his rich and peculiar imagination, his works have a magnificent and bold style and magnificent colors. He is regarded as the greatest romantic poet since Qu Yuan, and his creation is a new peak of Chinese romantic poetry. Many of his works, such as "Shu Dao Difficult", "Quiet Night Thinking" and "Early Hair White Emperor City", have become masterpieces passed down through the ages.

Li Bai's great achievements in poetry creation are difficult to describe in a few words. Perhaps only Du Fu's two poems are the most comprehensive: "The pen falls into the wind and rain, and the poem becomes a sobbing ghost."