The story of Li Bai catching the moon and riding a whale

After Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, was demoted, he wandered the rivers and lakes and drank and had fun all day. At that time, Cui Zongzhi also lived in Jinling, and they sang together. On a moonlit boat ride, from quarrying to Jinling, Li Bai was wearing a royal robe and laughing heartily on the boat. No one was watching. Later generations said that he was drunk, caught the moon in the water and fell into the water and drowned. It is also said that Li Bai rode a whale to heaven after his death because of Du Fu's poems.

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Riding a whale to catch the moon allusion:

Biography of Wen Yuan and Biography of Li Bai: Li Bai "wanders the Jianghu and drinks all day. Cui Zongzhi, an imperial envoy, lived in Jinling and sang with Hundred Years Nine. I took a boat on a moonlit night, mined my own stones and arrived in Jinling, wearing a white court robe. I looked around and smiled proudly on the boat. There was no one around. "

The New Tang Book Literary Biography is also included. Tang Du Fu's poem "Send Kong Chao's father to visit Jiangdong to give Li Bai": "If Li Bai rides a whale, Dao Fu asks what it is like today." Qiu Note: "It is said that people are drunk riding whales and drowning Xunyang because of this sentence." Song Zhaoling _ "Backstreet Record" Volume 6: "Or Yun Taibai loves Xie Jiaqing Mountain all his life, burying it and digging the grave. The world is too white to be stone, and the meaning of drunkenness is not in wine. "

Li Bai, a novel written by Yuan Xinwen, "Biography of Tang Caizi": "The White Night Festival is so old, I spent a lot of time gathering cows and beads, catching the moon with wine and sinking into the water."