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Li Bai

Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (701–762)

  • Fame86.7
  • Momentum16.0
  • Global rank#155
Source-basedStable
  • Fame86.7
  • Momentum16.0
  • Global rank#155
  • Writers rank#30
  • Wikipedia33.9K
Lived 701–762, aged 61
WritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    160 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Global rank
    #155
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  • Era
    701–762
    Aged 61
Summary
Updated 2026-08-28

A thousand poems survive from the eighth century, and the legend that he drowned trying to embrace the moon's reflection while drunk. Li Bai set the template for how Chinese verse celebrates wine, solitude, friendship, and nature — still taught in schools thirteen centuries later.

Biography

About

Born around 701, Li Bai rose during the Tang dynasty's "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry," when internal peace and imperial patronage let the arts flourish. He and contemporaries like Du Fu became the era's defining voices; his work appeared in major collections during his lifetime, including the 753 Heyue yingling ji. His poems — "Bring in the Wine," "Quiet Night Thought," "The Hard Road to Shu" — wove together shamanic imaginings, farewells to traveling friends, and nature caught in timeless moments. The rebellion of general An Lushan shattered the golden age: northern China fell to war and fami…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Li Bai

Li Bai
saidundated
All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other—Only the mountain and I.
— [38] "Alone Looking at the Mountain"
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Fame
Stable
86.7
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum16.0
Historical25.2
Now attention46.8
Source confidence60.0
Completeness60.0
Global rank
#155
Country rank
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Category rank
#30
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence