


His life has even taken on a legendary aspect, including tales of drunkenness, chivalry, and the well-known fable 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 still appear in school texts in China. The poems were models for celebrating the pleasures of friendship, the depth of nature, solitude, and the joys of drinking wine. In the same century, translations of his poems began to appear in Europe. Heyaue yingling ji, compiled in 753 by Yin Fan, and thirty-four of his 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. Īround a thousand poems attributed to him are extant. The expression "Three Wonders" denotes Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's swordplay, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy. 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". Li Bai ( Chinese: 李白 pinyin: Lǐ Bái Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Pe̍k, 701–762), also known as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai ( Chinese: 太白), art name Qinglian Jushi ( Chinese: 青蓮居士), 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. Suiye, Tang Empire (now Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan)ĭangtu, Tang Empire (now Ma'anshan, Anhui, China)
