Why didn't the talented Li Bai get the approval of the emperor? You are the emperor, and you can't stand him.

Why didn't the talented Li Bai get the approval of the emperor? You are the emperor, you can't stand him!

Li Bai and Du Fu are two insurmountable peaks of China people. Compared with Du Fu's melancholy, Li Bai's fan base is obviously larger. Li Bai is the eternal Bai Yueguang in the hearts of China literati, and there are countless comments about Li Bai. For example, Du Fu, Li Bai's most loyal fan, once praised him with the poem "The pen falls on the waves and the poem makes the gods cry".

The name of Li Bai's "fallen immortal" was named by He, who was famous at that time. Since then, the name of fallen immortals has spread like wildfire. Li Bai and Du Fu, as the pinnacles of romantic poetry in the Tang Dynasty, left many well-known poems, but this talented poet has never been reused by the emperor. What is the reason?

Take Li Bai as an example: "Go out laughing, are we Artemisia people?" He seems to have no desire for fame and fortune, but his poems reveal a sense of desolation from time to time.

Poems such as "Dapeng rises with the wind on the same day and soars in Wan Li" and "Being friends with princes when parting, overlooking the bird's nest when escaping" all show that Li Baizhi is lofty. However, Li Bai only served as an idle post once in his life, which is the origin of various versions of "Lux takes off his boots and your wife holds ink".

Of course, this kind of story is the self-appreciation of the acid literati, and I don't think it's interesting to let the emperor's minion take off his boots once. In a word, ambitious Li Bai is indeed a very talented person, but he has never been reused by the emperor.

This is also the reason why later generations have always emphasized Li Bai's life experience of "being short of knowledge". Of course, most of the literati in China are disgruntled women, and they should take care of themselves whether they are beautiful or not.

First of all, Li Bai's "talent not met" is a false proposition. Li Bai never showed his political talent, but showed his overly ideal and naive personality everywhere.

In 755 AD, An Shi Rebellion broke out. After Li Bai became the staff of Wang Yong Lilin, he even encouraged Wang Yong Lilin to claim the title of emperor, and even wrote the poem "Three Rivers in the north are chaotic, and four Hainan islands are like Yongjia", comparing himself to Xie An during the Yongjia rebellion.

Li Lin, the king of the ages, was defeated soon after, and Li Bai was jailed for it, which shows that his political talent is really mediocre.

Li Bai's literary talent is really extraordinary, but unfortunately it has no merit in politics. After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai was eventually exiled to Yelang for his participation in the Liling Rebellion in Wang Yong, and died soon after.

The image of Li Bai that we see today is the collective creation of later literati, but in the context at that time, Li Bai was really not a big shot. It was the collective creation of the literati group and Li Bai's romantic and naive self-cognition that made us have the illusion that Li Bai's talent had not met.

In other words, it is true that Li Bai "can't meet the wise master", but this does not mean that he is incompetent, because Li Bai has nothing to impress the rulers at that time.

In any dynasty, poetry and songs can't be eaten as food. What the king needs is always practical talents who can help the king govern the country, and the dissatisfied literati are excluded first.

Pragmatic literati in the Tang Dynasty, such as Zhang Jiuling, were neither pedantic nor thrifty in the ups and downs of their official career, and their political talent was much higher than that of Li Bai. Poets of Li Bai's contemporaries, such as Wang Wei, have general political skills, but at least they are not as full of complaints as Li Bai, and Wang Wei is also quite successful in his official career. Since then, Han Yu has directly set off two storms in the literary and art circles and political circles. Obviously, he is also more suitable for being an official than Li Bai.

Li Bai has never been reused by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Apart from his lack of political talent, his personality is really not suitable for mixing in officialdom. I think Tang Xuanzong may have intended to protect him.

In addition, Li Bai was born in a rather humble background. In fact, there was a system of parallel entrance examination and imperial examination in Li Tang, especially from the early Tang Dynasty to the middle Tang Dynasty. Family status seriously affected a person's official career.

Nine times out of ten, the important ministers in the Tang Dynasty were noble children. According to statistics, only 15% of the officials in the whole Tang Dynasty were born in the imperial examination, while those who held the core power, such as the prime minister, were almost all born in aristocratic families.

The entrance to the imperial examination is relatively narrow, but it is not impossible. He, who introduced Li Bai, was the first scholar in Zhejiang history.

However, Li Bai just doesn't obey the rules. He disdained to enter the body by passing the imperial examination. Of course, there is also a saying that Li Bai failed in political examination and could not achieve class leap through the imperial examination.

In a word, Li Bai is doomed not to be reused by the emperor. He just attracted the attention of the rulers with his poetic talent.

Tang Xuanzong summoned Li Bai to the palace to be an academician, but it was just a trick for the whole world to see. It would be a joke if he really let Li Bai run the country.

It's interesting that Li Bai, who has no talent in politics, thinks he is incompetent. Such a prodigal son with extremely self-centered personality and questionable birth is doomed to be unpopular with any ruler.

In my opinion, it is easy to say that Li Bai should be a mascot. If you really want to give him the official seal, I'm afraid none of you here will agree. It's hard to imagine how well a proud alcoholic can manage the local government!