Li Bai's children are really miserable with him as their father.
I haven't reaped any benefits, and I have lived a life that is inferior to ordinary people all my life. Literary talent? Doesn't exist. Maybe I don’t even know a few Chinese characters.
In his life, Li Bai married twice and lived with others twice, giving birth to two sons and one daughter.
The first time he got married, he was the son-in-law of the Xu family in Anlu, Hubei.
Xu Yushi, The prime minister during the Longshuo period of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. Because of the approval and recommendation of his friends Meng Haoran and He Zhizhang , Li Bai married the Xu family and married Xu Yushi's granddaughter.
Mrs. Xu gave birth to two children, a son and a daughter, to Li Bai. The boy was named Li Boqin and the girl was named Li Pingyang.
He had a wife, children, and a daughter, but Li Bai did not cherish such a good life when his wife and children were on the hot bed. His talent did not allow it! With a genius like
who is wild and loves wine, Li Bai is destined not to be a model husband and father who can take care of his wife and raise children.
He drinks everywhere, all the time, at home and outside. He can find people drinking with him wherever he goes.
Moreover, he is homeless all year round. Invite friends to travel around, spend money like water, and most of the money you scatter is impossible to "get back".
Mrs. Xu’s parenting style is equivalent to that of a widower. The two children in the family have probably never seen the normal side of their father.
Under such circumstances, Mrs. Xu fell ill and died within ten years. Then Li Bai left Hubei and went to Shandong, where he met a woman named Liu.
I don’t know how Li Bai could like this Liu family and live together with her. This Mrs. Liu is a snobbish and mean widow.
At first, she thought Li Bai was famous and talented, and thought that if she stayed with him, she would become famous. However, she didn't realize that after a long time, she couldn't help but ridicule, ridicule, attack, and insult him.
The angry Li Bai expressed his pain by angrily scolding Liu for "that woman's arrogance and that woman's obscenity" in " Snow Slanderous Poems for Friends ".
In the end, Mrs. Liu felt that she could not wait for the day when Li Bai became prosperous, so she took the initiative to say goodbye to Li Bai.
"Bye, bye." Li Bai didn't even look at Mrs. Liu, and found another Shandong woman whose name she didn't know.
This woman gave birth to a son to Li Bai, and Li Bai named him "Po Li", which means glass.
Seeing that he had another son, Li Bai simply handed over all the sons and daughters born to Mrs. Xu to this Shandong woman, and went to Beijing on his own.
was finally summoned by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. He thought he was going to flex his muscles in the political arena, but he was disappointed again and again and was deeply hit.
In despair, he once again embarked on a free trip across the country, traveling everywhere, leaving the poor Shandong woman and three children behind.
Once when he was traveling to Kaifeng, Henan, he drank too much and drunkenly wrote a song " Liang Yuan " on a wall of Liang Yuan .
This poem was read by the granddaughter of Wu Zetian Prime Minister of the Dynasty Zong Chuke . She was instantly shocked by his talent. It is said that she spent thousands of gold to buy the wall.
Li Bai was moved by the rich and beautiful behavior of Bai Fumei, married into the clan, and became the grandson-in-law of the prime minister for the second time.
Mrs. Zong did not give birth to a son or a half daughter to Li Bai.
When he lived in the clan mansion, Li Bai would also think of the children in Shandong:
The charming girl is named Pingyang, folding flowers and leaning against the peach edge.
You can’t see me when you fold flowers, and your tears are like flowing springs.
The child's name is Boqin, and he is as tall as his sister.
Under the double row of peach trees, who cares if you caress your back?
You think Li Bai didn't love children? Look at the names he gave his children: Boqin was the name of the eldest son of the Western Zhou Dynasty politician Zhou Gong, Pingyang was the name of the sister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the glass was crystal stone, which was a very precious thing at that time.
He should have regarded the child as a treasure from the beginning and had high hopes from the bottom of his heart.
However, he has wind in his blood and is born with fairy spirit. He cannot be a down-to-earth father who can accompany, guide and educate his children to grow up.
Boqin and Pingyang's mother died young, and their father was careless, living a lonely life all year round. Pingyang married at a young age and died of illness soon after.
Another son, Po Li, did not leave any traces, and was just submerged in the dust of history.
After Li Bai's death, there was a die-hard fan named Fan Chuan who vowed to find Li Bai's descendants and looked forward to seeing the style of Shixian in person.
But when he found Li Boqin, he was shocked. In front of him was a simple and dull farmer, as mediocre as any farmer in the mountains.
Li Bai's talent, fame, immortality, and arrogance of spending a lot of money seem to have nothing to do with him.
This can’t help but make people sigh.
But it was this honest farmer who accompanied Li Bai on the last journey of his life.
In 757 AD, Li Bai returned to Jiangxia after being rescued from prison by his friends. In the face of the condolences from relatives and friends, he wrote a song "The door is full of carriages and horses, and the passengers are traveling ".
"The son who cleans the courtyard should be Li Boqin."
Until the year before his death, Li Boqin was still by his side to take care of him: "After getting drunk, I return to the moon, and I welcome the child from afar."
For Li Bai, who had been wandering all his life, having his son's caring care at the last moment of his downcast life was a great comfort.
Perhaps we cannot demand too much from a great poet.
If he was really a small official with a smooth and stable life and a good father who devoted himself to raising his son, he might not be able to write such fantastic and magnificent poems!
