Li Bai is depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu (無雙譜, Table of Peerless Heroes) by Jin Guliang. However, much of Li's poetry has survived, retaining enduring popularity in mainland China and Taiwan. Unlike his younger friend Du Fu, Li did not live to see the end of the chaos. Li's poetry during this period has taken new tones and qualities.
His rebellion led most of Northern China to be devastated by war and famine. This ended with the beginning with the rebellion of general An Lushan. His early poetry took place in the context of a "golden age" of internal peace and prosperity in the Tang dynasty, under the reign of an emperor who actively promoted and participated in the arts. However, of particular importance are the changes in the times through which he lived. Much of Li's life is reflected in his poetry, the poems are about places he visited, friends whom he saw off on journeys to distant locations perhaps never to meet again, his own dream-like imaginations embroidered with shamanic overtones, current events of which he had news, descriptions taken from nature in a timeless moment of poetry, and so on.
His life has even taken on a legendary aspect, including tales of drunkenness, chivalry, and the well-known tale that Li drowned when he reached from his boat to grasp the moon's reflection in the river while drunk. In the West, multilingual translations of Li's poems continue to be made. Among the most famous are "Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day", "The Hard Road to Shu", and " Quiet Night Thought", which are still taught in schoolbooks in China.
The poems were models for celebrating the pleasures of friendship, the depth of nature, solitude, and the joys of drinking wine. Around the same time, translations of his poems began to appear in Europe. Thirty-four of Li Bai’s poems are included in the anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, which was first published in the 18th century. His poems have been collected into the most important Tang dynasty poetry, Heyaue yingling ji, compiled in 753 by Yin Fan. Or Suiye, Tang China (now Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan)ĭangtu, Tang dynasty (now Ma'anshan, Anhui, China)Īround 1000 poems attributed to Li are extant. Rencheng, Shandong, Tang dynasty (now Rencheng, Jinan, Shandong, China)
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