李白与道家思想.doc

Taoism and Li Bai The Tang Dynasty is generally acknowledged as the golden age of Chinese poetry. It reached a standard which was never surpassed in feudal China. (郭尚兴，盛兴庆，1993：278). Li Bai lived in the High Tang period which the Tang Dynasty was powerful and wealthy. Li Bai is a legendary poet. His life was influenced deeply by the Taoism. Then I will try to find out the relationship between Taoism and Li Bai. I. A brief introduction of Li Bai Li Bai (AD 701-762), the most outstanding poet at the height of the Tang Dynasty, is one of the great romantic poets after Qu Yuan. He was later called the poetic genius, and has been called Shi Xian (fairy poet). His poems, with their exuberant, unrestrained and tasteful characteristics have been taken as the prominent representative of the High Tang atmosphere. Li Bai’s life was full of frustration and his thoughts were complex. Besides a great talent for poetry, Li Bai had also an air of a swordsman, hermit, Taoist and adviser. Li Bai’s life was special. He was born at the town of Sui-Yeh in the Western Regions and brought up in Sichuan in the western China, where the minorities inhabited and the Taoism originated. Therefore, hen was exposed deeply to the influence of alien cultures of the minorities such as Qiang and other minorities lived at the Southern China. He also lived in a vigorous time of High Tang- the golden age in the whole Chinese history. He was exposed deeply to the influence of Political Strategists. He was fond of chivalry, personal fantasy and alienation, so a great rocsymbolizing his spirit beyond the world. (周勋初，2004：Introduction) II. The influence of Taoism on Li Bai The influence of Taoism on Li Bai’s Attitude to Life Li Bai was born in the Shu area where the Taoism originated, so he took part in Taoism when he was a young man and finally became a Taoist priest. Li Bai aims at becoming an immortal according to learning Taoism, so he had chance with the “Xian” (immortal) all his life. For instance, h