What does the world famous poet Li Bai do for a living? It has been a mystery for thousands of years. In fact, in life, he does not sell poems for a living, nor is he a rich boy. It can be inferred from his poems that he is a "miner". He is also a businessman because he transports and sells copper and lead ores.
Li Bai likes his work very much. He has been a miner for at least ten years. "I love Tongguan music, and I didn't intend to return it in one thousand. If you want to ask about dancing sleeves, the Buddha will do everything. " "Huangshan crow, shrimp lake crow." "Support copper mining, hibiscus water bath. Late at night, the Milky Way is bright. Going to the building tomorrow morning, there will be many ups and downs in Dragonair. When holding an axe Weng, cut the clouds before flowing. " Another cloud says, "When you pick the lead river and climb the mountain." These poems written by Li Bai can be said to be inseparable.
The place names in the poem are all in Tongling and Guichi, Anhui Province today. Even in the early Tang dynasty, it was the producing area of copper and lead. Mining needs to be sold. Ore is transported from here to Yangzhou market. Yangzhou at that time was equivalent to Shanghai today, and "the boat travels in the valley." Its handicraft industry is very developed, bronze mirrors have a long-standing reputation, and jewels and jade are beautifully carved.
The shipping industry is also booming. The smelting and casting of ores and products are completed in Yangzhou. Although the illegal trading of copper, lead and tin was prohibited in the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, and copper was prohibited as a vessel, it was stipulated that those who mined copper, lead and tin should be purchased by officials.
Fortunately, minerals can be escorted by world-class poets themselves. Li Bai escorted ore with the ship many times, and his journey was full of poetry and painting. Watching mountains and water during the day, enjoying the moon at night, drinking and writing poems. Many masterpieces handed down from ancient times were sung in the course of work, which added infinite charm to the weather in the prosperous Tang Dynasty!
In order to have a deeper understanding of Li Bai's economic life, Liu Jixing extensively consulted information about him and his poems, and came to the conclusion that Li Bai is a good boss. He often mingles with laborers, eating, living and working together. In his poems, he mentioned Wusong Mountain in many places, which is a mining area located "five or six miles west of Nanling Tongkeng". In the hot summer, Li Bai and the workers are working in the "copper well combustion furnace".
Some people don't understand Li Bai's "grasping with both hands" and "being hard with both hands" when he is busy writing poems. They think he is eager to learn from the gods, saying that this is his negative side. Basis: He took lead and lead medicine. This is a charter. An alchemist doesn't need much lead, and he doesn't need to mine it himself, let alone transport it. To say the least, even so, why did Li Bai write "lead mining" in his poem? Isn't it more elegant to write "collecting herbs"? It can be seen that "taking the lead in clearing the river embankment" and "supporting the copper miners" are his lines.