1. Li He was prevented from taking the imperial examination due to a naming taboo.
14 Facts About Li He
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Li He died very young, and was noted for his sickly appearance.
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Li He was a diligent poet, going out on journeys during the day and, when a line of poetry came to him, jotting it down, and completing the poems when he arrived home in the evening.
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Li He was among the Tang poets most admired by Mao Zedong.
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Li He was known as Guicai by contrast of his morbid poetic style to Li Bai's Tiancai and Bai Juyi's Rencai.
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Li He's family were of distant royal descent, but his branch's fortunes had declined early on, and by Li He's time they were of low rank.
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Li He served only three years, in the low-ranking office of Fenglilang before returning to his hometown.
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Li He is described as having a very sickly appearance: he was supposedly very thin, had a unibrow, and let his fingernails grow long.
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Li He died a low-ranking and poor official in 816 or 817, at the age of 26 or 27.
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The Short Biography of Li He describes him as a diligent poet, who carried an old brocade bag around with him, and when a line of poetry came to him he would jot it down and put it in this bag.
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Li He's poetry is unique, filled with fantastic and unusual imagery, which is where he gets his nickname "Guicai".
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Li He gave eerie descriptions of the world of ghosts in his poems "Qiu lai" and "Shen xian qu".
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Li He frequently combined colour and feeling imagery in his poetry, as can be seen in his poems "Tianshang yao" and "Qin wang yin jiu".
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Li He was one of a group of Tang poets frequently quoted in the lyrics of Song-era musicians such as Zhou Bangyan.