Trapped in a hopeless battle with no place to retreat, Tang general Gao Shi chooses to tell a story to a warrior sent by emperor about his lifelong friendship with the poet Li Bai.
To bring the whole movie to its climax, Zou and his co-director Xie Junwei introduce Li Bai's masterpiece of romanticism " Bring in the Wine" with an elegant and meditative reading.
" As one of the heydays in ancient Chinese history, we are immersed in its poetry culture from a very early age. We found ourselves speaking of one poet over all others, so we chose Li Bai."
The fact that the famous Tang dynasty poet Li Bai once traveled here and wrote poems during his visits makes it even more special to me—he's my favorite poet.
However, some historians have inferred from the documents left behind that Li Bai's ancestors were exiled due to crimes and did not escape back to the Sichuan area until the reign of Empress Wu Zetian.