Concept of Value or Pose of Conduction: The Meaning of Li Bai's Speech of the Confucianism and Taoism

LI Bai advocated Confucian idea of praise and criticism in his works Gu Feng, But he had not showed any concerns about people's livehood in his poems. he actually regarded himself as a literary officer. In addition, LI Bai often extol hermit's life, but he only took seclusion as a shortcut to become an official of a way to be a celestial being. All these lead to a conclusion that LI Bai is not a thinker in traditional sense. The loose and active environment of early and prime period of Tang Dynasty endowed an individual character to intellectuals. LI Bai should be the representative. He was outstanding and he indulged in his own spirit experience, which made him absent from the public. The idea of Confucianism and Taoism was still the “public opinion”, with which LI Bai could fell happy being present as a other. His speech of Confucianism and Taoism showed his solitude and the struggle to avoid it.