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Li Bai Biography

Li Bai (701–762), also known as Li Bo, Li Po and Li Taibai, was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were the two most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry in the Tang dynasty, which is often called the "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry". The expression "Three Wonders" denote Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's swordplay, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy.

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The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

Dream, Like, Toil, World

From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting, Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang. Tonight, if we should hear the willow-breaking song, Who could help but long for the gardens of home?

Drifting, Fills, Home, Long, Song, Spring

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

Dream, Life, Life Is, Toil

To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine. A splendid night it was. . . . In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet

Coverlet, Heaven, Night, Rinse, Splendid, Wine

Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three.

Became, Hands, Invite, Moon, Three, Wine

Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

August, Bare, Hang, Stone, Summer, Wind

Forever and forever and forever

Dharma Bums, Forever

To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.

Life, Make, Pleasure, Spring

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

Home, Man, Men, Passing, Traveler

The autumn air is clear, The autumn moon is bright. Fallen leaves gather and scatter, The jackdaw perches and starts anew. We think of each other- when will we meet? This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.

Air, Autumn, Hard, Jackdaw, Moon, Night

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

Butterfly, Garden, Hurt, Older

All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

Bird, Cloud, Clouds, Gone, Leisurely, Lonely

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

Flows, Heart, Men, Spring, Unknown

From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

Away, Dawn, Fall, Night, Three, Wall

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Birds, Cloud, Clouds, Garden, Sky, Together

In the battlefield men grapple each other and die; The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven, While ravens and kites peck at human entrails, Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.

Grapple, Heaven, Horse, Men, Peck, Veterans Day

In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.

Energy, Female, Males, Moon, Sun