In "To Li Yong" Li Bai likens himself to the great Peng bird and says that one day he will surely fly very high.
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Its central couplet: 大鹏一日同风起，扶摇直上九万里, 'one day the great Peng will rise with the wind and ride the whirlwind straight up ninety thousand li'. The bird comes from 《庄子·逍遥游》.
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李邕 (678–747) was a famous calligrapher and official who seems to have brushed off the young poet. The poem ends by warning him that even Confucius respected the young.
