The Story and Significance behind A Gift for Wang Lun

The story and significance behind "To Wang Lun" are as follows:

The story tells that Wang Lun once wrote to Li Bai to visit his home and said, "Do you like traveling? There are ten miles of peach blossoms here; Do you like drinking? There are ten thousand hotels here. Just waiting for you to play. " When Li Bai arrived at his home in Wang Lun, he only saw the vast Shan Ye, not to mention the peach blossoms.

Wang Lun explained that Shili Peach Blossom is the Peach Blossom Pond ten miles away. Wanjia Hotel refers to the name of the person who opened the hotel on the west side of Taohuatan. Hearing this, Li Bai thought this man was very interesting, so he stayed and made friends with him. When he left, Li Bai wrote this poem and gave it to Wang Lun as a souvenir.

In fact, this story is based on Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden in Qing Dynasty. It is not difficult to see from the name of the source that this is a book that Yuan Mei, a media person in Qing Dynasty, thought about while walking in his yard. If you take your notes as official history, you may miss the truth.

In fact, Li Bai seldom writes a poem for a specific person. What's so special about Wang Lun that Li Bai wants to write a poem for him?

In fact, Wang Lun is not an ordinary villager, but the county magistrate of Jingxian where Taohuatan is located, that is, the county magistrate. This is clearly recorded in the Wang genealogy.

According to a series of poems in The Complete Annals of Li Taibai, Li Bai was persuaded to be depressed after leaving the palace, so he regained his childhood hobby-traveling.

He traveled all the way south from Liangyuan (now Feidong Town, Hefei City, Anhui Province), visited famous mountains and met people from all walks of life, and also went to Jingxian County, Wang Lun's grandfather, and visited Taohuatan. Just as Li Bai was about to leave Taohuatan for the next stop, Wang Lun appeared with people.