Li Bai
Classical Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (701-762) · Writers · Died at 61
Li Bai is read about 1,230 times a day, in 161 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 23 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 398 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
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, 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.
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About this person
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 famine, and Li's later verse took on darker tones. He died in 762, before the chaos ended, leaving Du Fu to witness what came after. The legend outlasted the man - tales of chivalry, drunkenness, and that final reach for the moon.
Writers born in the 700s 6
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