Li Bai
Overview
Tang poetry
Tang poetry refers to poetry written in or around the time of and in the characteristic style of China's Tang dynasty, and/or follows a certain style, often considered as the Golden Age of Chinese poetry...
. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China
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Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire...
period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing poems are attributed to him. Thirty-four of his poems are included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems
Three Hundred Tang Poems
The Three Hundred Tang Poems is an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty first compiled around 1763 by Sun Zhu , the Qing scholar also known as Hengtang Tuishi . Various later editions also exist...
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In the area of Chinese cultural influence, Li Bai's poetry has been much esteemed from his lifetime through the present day.
Quotations
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.
[33] Moon over Mountain Pass
The birds have vanished down the sky.Now the last cloud drains away.We sit together, the mountain and me,until only the mountain remains.
[33] Moon over Mountain Pass
From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawnTo Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles,Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind meTo my boat these ten thousand mountains away.
[38] Alone Looking at the Mountain