"Seven treasures bed for food" is to give Li Bai a luxurious seat set with colorful gems for him to sit on, which shows that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty appreciated Li Bai.

This is the Preface to Li Bai's Poems written by Li in the Tang Dynasty.

Excerpt from the original:

In Tianbao, Emperor Zu sent a letter to collect the golden horse and stepped down to meet Qi and Hao. Give the food to the Qibao bed and the spoon to the royal hand. It is said: Qing is a cloth, and I know it. Why not keep virtue? Put it in the golden palace, go in and out of the Hanlin, ask the national government, and dive into the grass to write the imperial edict. No one knows.

Translation:

During the Tianbao period, the ancestor emperor issued a letter to recruit Li Bai to the DPRK, and the emperor stepped down to meet him personally, as if he had met Qi and Hao. Li Bai got a luxurious seat inlaid with colored gems. The emperor personally mixed the soup for Li Bai and said to Li Bai, "You are a civilian, and I already know your reputation. How can it be that morality is not obvious on weekdays? " Li Bai was placed in the Golden Palace, and he was free to go in and out of imperial academy. He asked him about the strategy of governing the country and secretly asked him to write imperial letters. No one else knew.

Extended data

Preface to the Collection of Caotang is the first preface of Li Bai's poetry. The preface introduces Li Bai's life experience, main deeds, creation and the process of Li Bai's collected works.

Li Bai is the greatest romantic poet in China after Qu Yuan in ancient times. At the same time, he is also a man of lofty ideals, with both gains and disappointments. His life is a life of exclusion and persecution; Especially after the Anshi Rebellion, he joined the Wang Yong shogunate Lilin with patriotic enthusiasm. Due to contradictions within the ruling clique, he was implicated, almost lost his life and was homeless. The experience in his later years is even more terrible.

Li and Li Bai are not only related by clan, but also people who know Li Bai best and can sympathize with him when he is in trouble. When Li Bai drifted in his later years, it was regarded as his home. After Li Bai's death, he undertook the work of compiling a collection of suicide notes.

In addition to describing Li Bai's family background and friends, this preface focuses on two points: first, Li Bai's great contribution to the history of poetry development in the early Tang Dynasty, his role and influence; Second, the story of Li Bai's imprisonment in Chang 'an in the early years, and the sadness of his political talent.

As for the Li Lin incident, because it is difficult to put it in words, I just said, "I have been away for eight years because of something in the Central Plains." The intention is extremely subtle and tortuous, but the end of the pen is saturated with deep emotions.

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