A Historical Examination of LI Hua's Life Story

LI Hua is a master writer of the Tang Dynasty in China,whose works are held widely in high esteem.Lament for a Battlefield of Yore by Li Hua occupies an important position in the history of Chinese prose.In his Rhapsody of the Hanyuan Palace there are more than three thousand characters,and therefore it is accounted to be the greatest rhapsody of the Tang Dynasty.LI Hua is also a poet,who has a unique notion of history.In short,Li Hua is both a litterateur and a historian.A comparative study of his biographies in the History of the Tang Dynasty and the New History of the Tang Dynasty enables us to ascertain the historical position of LI Hua as an important literatus of the Tang Dynasty.The times in which LI Hua lived are of special properties,which have distorted and influenced his personality.To set up a brief chronicle for LI Hua is beneficial to academic research in that it may establish a solid epochal and spatial foundation for the research of LI Hua.