The documentary - Travel with Tang poetry - has 5 episodes in total. It selects five representative journeys in the lives of five poets: Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Cen Shen. It invites poet Xi Chuan, scholar Li Bo, scholar Yang Yu,Writer Liushen Leilei and calligrapher Lu Dadong came to the place where Tang poetry was born, experienced the poets' lives, understood their hearts, and searched for the secrets of Tang poetry.
During the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty flourished and declined, and the poet Du Fu experienced a life of ruined country and family.In his later years, the poet wandered thousands of miles, from southern Gansu to the Sichuan Basin, and finally ended his life on the Xiangjiang River.Although he was wandering around, he created the creative peak of Du Fu's life. It was in his wandering that the poet % was born.The poet Xi Chuan embarks on Du Fu's wandering journey in search of a place to settle down in his later years. This is a journey in pursuit of his idol.
Lu Dadong is a person who makes a living by calligraphy. He often writes Tang poetry.The poem witnesses the long-lasting friendship between Meng Haoran and Li Bai. Meng Haoran, who lived in seclusion in Xiangyang, once roamed far away. Many poets in the Tang Dynasty came to Xiangyang just to visit Meng Haoran.Meng Haoran's influence is unimaginable to us today.
More than a thousand years ago, Chang'an City was the center of the world.In the Chang'an poetry circle, Wang Wei is an iconic figure.In Chang'an, poets come and go, some are proud of the spring breeze, and some are sad. Partings and reunions are staged here every day.Scholar Li Bo takes Xi'an as the starting point to recreate the cultural map in Wang Wei's poems and explore the gatherings and partings in Chang'an City.
In 749 AD, Cen Shen set out on his westward journey for the first time in his life. When he passed Yangguan and entered the Western Regions, the first thing he faced was the endless desert Mohe Yanqi.This strange and grand desolation aroused Cen Shen's deep nostalgia, so he wrote - Qi Zhongzuo -.Yang Yu's trip to the frontier began from the geographical center of Asia, where he felt the fireworks of the Gobi.
Li Bai, a great poet, had many differences in fate and poetry from Du Fu. Although they both passed through Longnan, Gansu, Du Fu was impoverished, but Li Bai was still surrounded by immortality and wrote such a majestic poem - The Road to Shu is Difficult..Writer Han Songluo will follow in the footsteps of Li Bai and travel to the mountains in the life of the poet, to verify and explore eternity.