Li Bai, who was drunk, relied on his great pride and outstanding talent, and wrote a letter of reply written in minority languages in an instant. frightened off the envoys of the Bohai State who came to challenge, so that Tang Xuanzong solved a major diplomatic problem without spending a single soldier. The result?
According to the "Warning Words": In 742 AD, one day not long after the 42-year-old Li Bai entered the Hanlin Academy, the Bohai State, which was located in the northeast of the Tang Dynasty and ruled by ethnic minorities, sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty to challenge the letter, declaring that he would start a war with the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, the challenge book is written in the language of the country's ethnic minorities. Therefore, when the ministers of the Tang Dynasty circulated it, they were all confused, and they couldn't understand the meaning of what they wrote.
What to do?Everyone has come to write a war book, and you still can't figure out what you're talking about, hasn't it become a joke for the ages?Therefore, the ministers are in a hurry, and they are all about to become ants in a hot pot. Fortunately, someone reminded him at this time: "Li Bai is omniscient and omnipotent, why not ask him to help show him?"”
A word to wake up the dreamer!Tang Xuanzong immediately summoned Li Bai over, and when Li Bai saw it, he read the battle book aloud, which was great. Tang Xuanzong was very shocked and asked, "You know the language of ethnic minorities?"Li Bai replied: "Not only do I understand, but also, as long as I write a letter of reply, I promise to suppress them, and I will never dare to raise troops to attack, and Datang will not need to send troops to deal with it at all." ”
When Tang Xuanzong heard this, he was even more shocked, and then said: "Since you have such ability, then hurry up and write it." However, at this time, Li Bai sold Guanzi, he said: "I am a person, I must enter the state to write poems and articles in order to be inspired." I had to drink, and when I got to a certain point, I got into the groove. ”
After hearing this, Tang Xuanzong felt funny and hateful, but it was useless to be anxious, so he could only rely on him. So, he hurriedly asked people to serve fine wine, and he waited for Li Bai. Li Bai was not polite, and drank until he was dizzy. Suddenly, Li Bai's pen was gone, and a letter of reply written in minority languages was completed in an instant.
Then, Li Bai read aloud in public, and sure enough, the envoy of the Bohai Kingdom was so frightened that his face was like earth, and his soul was scattered, so he quickly found an excuse and ran back to his country in disgrace. After returning home, the envoy said to the king of the Bohai Kingdom: "The Tang Dynasty is too strong for us to fight this battle. ”
From then on, Li Bai, in a drunken state, drafted the edict to scare off the northern minority Bohai State to make the deeds widely circulated among the people. This is the detailed storyline of Li Bai's "Drunken Grass and Scare the Barbarian Book" recorded in the ** episode "Warning Words".
So, is Li Bai's "drunken grass scaring the barbarian book" true or false?
The inscription of "Gift to the Tombstone of Li Gongxin, a Scholar of Hanlin Scholars" written by Fan Chuanzheng of the Tang Dynasty writer and poet to Li Bai, says: "When Li Bai was received by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, in order to show his ability, he discussed political affairs for a while, and drafted an edict for a while, sparing no effort to show it, and trying his best to prove that he could do anything. ”
Sure enough, after Li Bai's performance, Tang Xuanzong was very satisfied with him. However, the drafting of the edict mentioned by Fan Chuanzheng here is a false reference, so it cannot be used as evidence for drafting the reply of ethnic minorities.
There is no doubt that writing the reply is a diplomatic event between the two countries, but there is no reflection in the official documents or official history of the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, as a great poet and great writer, Li Bai must have mastered the Chinese language exceptionally well, but there is no historical material that shows that Li Bai can write the language of ethnic minorities.
On the contrary, in the middle school textbook, there is a Han painting dedicated to the Bohai Kingdom, and in the poem "Sending the Bohai Prince Back to the Country" by the Tang Dynasty poet Wen Tingjun, the Che Shuben family is mentioned, that is to say, the official language of the Bohai State at that time was Chinese, and there was no national script of its own.
Therefore, Li Bai's "drunken grass scares the barbarian book" does not exist. However, this also just proves that the poet immortal Li Bai has an important position in people's minds, his artistic achievements enjoy a very high status, and his life is full of romantic legends!