Journal of Asian Restudy 2021 Fall

and life view of a daoist, whose ambitious final goal is
to relieve the human body and spirit from all the suffering
and burden of mundane life and become immortal. His poems
were marvelous with very spontaneous flow of humane emotion,
and effortless wording style, simple way of expression of
ideas in depth, enhanced by his magnificent imagination.
This poem was written at the beginning of his journey of
career exploration when he had just sailed out of Sichuan
– his home province. Although it was the feeling of
nostalgia for his hometown directly revealed from this poem,
the high spirit of a brave young man who just started his
own life journey independently could hardly be concealed.
Li Bai liked to use exaggerated numbers in his poems. This
is one of his poetry’s biggest characteristics. For example:
"(The waterfall)flying down 3000 feet precipitately from
one top of the mountain, it seemed as if the Milky way had
fallen from the highest level of heaven", "The river flows
along with fallen peach flower on it, how lovely, which
could be 1000 feet deep, but it may not be as deep as the
friendship of Mr. Wang Lun showed to us when he was seeing
me off at the river.", "The mountain of Tiantai, literally
meaning the platform of heaven, is as high as 144000 metres,
and it seemed to fall toward the Southeast side under the
sky", "After passing by thousands of rocks and through ten
thousands of turns, the road was suddenly lost among the
piles of flowers and layers of leaning rocks as it became
dark ", "Nobody knows when they founded those nations such
as Cancong and Yufu, but it should be at least 48000 years,
and they had never had any communication with the people
fom Empire Qin before”,and so on. These figures are
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