Writing verse 1,300 years later: Poetry plays a part in all Chinese celebrations — marriages, births, deaths — and children memorize ancient verse in school, reports Nat Geo Explorer Paul Salopek.
Li Hong Bin (right), a 62-year-old man who’s given up his family, friends, and job to pursue poetry, believes he’s the reincarnated Li Bai, a famous classical Chinese poet born in 701. “We sacrifice ourselves for the people,” Bin tells Nat Geo.
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