Lǐ Hè zhǐ huó le èrshíqī suì, què yīnwèi qítè de xiǎngxiàng bèi chēngwéi shīguǐ.
Li He lived only to twenty-seven, yet his strange imagination earned him the name Ghost of Poetry.
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culture
His poems are full of ghosts, graves, will-o'-the-wisps and fading autumn light, as in 秋坟鬼唱鲍家诗 'in autumn graves the ghosts sing Bao Zhao's verses'. The epithets come as a set: 诗仙李白, 诗圣杜甫, 诗佛王维 and 诗鬼李贺.
history
A story told by 李商隐 has a messenger in red come to the dying Li He to call him to heaven, where the Lord of Heaven wanted him to write an inscription for his new White Jade Tower.
