wanderlust years, in western China he meet a Taoist mystic named Ssu Ma Ch’eng-cheng, who takes Li Bai as his student. He becomes associated and a well-known practitioner of Taoism and embodies it through his poetry. At age twenty-nine in 730 A.D., he makes the first of four marriages and lives in Hupei. Li Bai was born free and his vision in life was to be free. He wanted to be great, but in his own personal path. “ Li Po was an obscure person who greatest hope of advancement lay in convincing others of his grand vision of himself.” He had no intention in becoming involved with the royal court. “He never took the civil service examinations as his contemporaries did, though that was the normal route to a career in government.” “ Too impulsive and incapable of the necessary self-discipline to get through all the preparations with set books and model questions on government and economics…but it was evident that he was widely read and spent much of his life in study and by no means lacked the kind of ambitions for which it was normally necessary to take the examinations.” When he was forty-one in 742 A.D., he is appointed to the Hanlin Academy in Ch’ang-an.
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For two years, Li Bai attends the emperors’ banquets, and outgoings. He celebrates these festivities by creating poetic
For two years, Li Bai attends the emperors’ banquets, and outgoings. He celebrates these festivities by creating poetic