【正】 "Li Po, a Chinese poet wholived in the Tang Dynasty(618-907), born in 701. Hispatron was the emperor,and he was prominent inthe gay life of the court, until the influ-ence of the empress he was dismissed. It issaid he was drowned in the act of trying tokiss the moon in the water. His poems havetheir themes including nature, women, andwine and are still popular in China. He diedin 762."