Emperor Minghuang observes Li Bai writing poetry while having his boots taken off |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Li Bai
- Birth: Unknown Date, 701, Suyab (or Ordukent, in present-day Kyrgyzstan)
- Death: Unknown Date, 762, Yangtze, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese poet; around a thousand poems, many celebrating "the Good Life," including "Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day," "The Hard Road to Shu," and "Quiet Night Thought"; thirty-four of his poems are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
- Included in lists (What's This?): GC
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