"The Swordsman and the Immortal Poet" takes Li Bai's life trajectory as the context and unfolds a portrait of the poet in the context of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
He once traveled far and wide with his sword, astonishing the capital with his heroic spirit of "the roc rises with the wind in one day". He entered the Imperial Academy and gave the imperial concubine the gift of "clouds think of clothes and flowers think of face", but he could not escape the strife in the court. He finally resigned from Beijing with the pride of "being able to crush his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful"; he traveled across the mountains and rivers, and watched "Flying in the Sky" at Mount Lu "Streaming down three thousand feet", and "Looking at each other without getting tired of each other" at Jingting Mountain, the words and ink are filled with the vastness of the world; when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, he surrendered to the Yongwang Shogunate, hoping to show his ambition to help the world, but he was involved in the struggle for imperial power and became a prisoner. On his way to exile, Yelang still chanted "The light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains".
From the chivalrous spirit of a young man wielding a sword, to the glory of enshrining a golden sword, from the frustration of returning gold, to the hardship of exiled Yelang, to the tragedy of joining the army in his later years, Shixian stumbled between ideal and reality throughout his life, but he always embraced the world with an innocent heart, turning all the ups and downs into the brilliance of his writings.
