China's greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan is?

China's greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan is Li Bai.

Li Bai is the greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. Together with Du Fu, Guo Moruo called him a "Gemini" in China's poetry circle, representing the highest peak of China's classical poetry.

Li Bai lived in the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of the Tang Dynasty, which was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is an era full of ideals and enterprising spirit, with strong national strength, prosperous economy, relaxed social environment and weak sense of hierarchy and gentry. Therefore, the poets in the mid-Tang Dynasty have a strong spirit of doing things, and they are more outward-oriented, not paying much attention to self-protection.

Secondly, Li Bai was born in a wealthy family in the western regions, and his children's education was relatively free. The active commercial economy is in contradiction with the conservative feudal order, and the businessmen's thoughts are not bound by traditional ethics, so Li Bai's personality is more free and unrestrained. His poetry also fully embodies this feature. For example, in the Lushan ballad, "I am a madman in Chu, and the phoenix songs laugh at the lonely mountain."

Li Bai's literary characteristics

Influenced by Qu Yuan's thoughts and artistic creation techniques, Li Bai recognized his literary spirit of "coquettish resentment", comprehensively borrowed Qu Yuan's artistic essence in his creation techniques, made extensive use of metaphor and symbolism, imagined romance and magnificence, borrowed Qu Sao's poems and created in poetic style.

Finally, Li Bai was deeply influenced by Zhuangzi's thought of absolute freedom and independence. He pursues personal freedom, and once he encounters setbacks and various blows in real life, he places his thoughts in rivers and valleys. For example, poems such as "Hold your heart and invite me to understand, and bring my shadow to make the three of us" and "Never tire of looking at each other, but only respect Tingshan" show this idea.