Li Bai was born on 19 May 701 CE in Suyab. A Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, Li Bai, also known as Li Po, is considered one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature, along with his contemporary and friend Du Fu. He spent much of his life wandering and was known for a free, romantic spirit, a love of wine, nature and the moon, and for imaginative and musical verse. He held a brief appointment at the court of Emperor Xuanzong in Chang'an but left it. Many of his poems, such as Quiet Night Thought, are still memorised by Chinese schoolchildren. Legends grew around his life and death, including that he drowned trying to embrace the moon's reflection.
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