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Li Po
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also found as Li Bo and Li T'ai Po
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pronunciation:
[lee poh]
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| (c.700–762)
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| Poet, born in Szechwan Province, China. Possibly of Turkish origin, he grew up in Sichuan, later moving to the Tang court of Xuanzong where he led a dissipated life. He later joined a wandering band calling themselves ‘The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup’. Regarded as the greatest poet of China, he wrote over 1000 imaginative and rhapsodic free-style poems about wine, women, and nature. It is believed that he was drowned while trying to pluck the Moon from a lake. |
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