Translation and Annotations Translation A little boy, a little monk, was named Huai Su. Your cursive style is unique. You can raise whales in the Arctic Ocean with so much ink. You used so many rabbit pens, no wonder all the rabbits in Zhongshan were killed. It's cool here in August and September. Drunk poet, the hall is full. There are several boxes of white cloth and paper on the ground, all of which were written by others. Xuanzhou inkstone was placed on the table, radiating the black and bright light of ink. My super product was drunk, so he took a nap on the rope bed Suddenly got up and swept thousands of words in an instant.
Like a storm, I was frightened. Like flowers but not snow, it is boundless. Sometimes writing on the white wall is as big as a bucket. People who read your writing are scared like ghosts and gods. I can only see dragons flying and phoenixes swimming. The strokes move left and right, running left and right, like lightning all over the sky. Just like the Han-Chu War. How many celebrities are there in seven counties of Hunan? Which screen and powder wall don't cherish your pen and ink? What Wang Xizhi what Zhang Boying, that is also called Cao Sheng? Compared with you, I know they have gained fame for hundreds of years.
Appreciating this poem depicts Huai Su's drunken writing, such as a whirlwind of showers, giving people artistic enjoyment by leaps and bounds. "Cursive chinese odyssey", Li Bai spoke highly of Huai Su's calligraphy.
Because of its frank language, this poem is slightly different from Li Bai's previous poetic style, which has aroused the doubts and debates of scholars in previous dynasties. Su Dongpo, a great scholar in the Song Dynasty, once decided that this poem was not written by Li Bai on the grounds that the sentence of "writing hemp and arranging boxes" was full of village flavor. Zhu, a calligrapher of Su Shi's contemporary, thinks that "this poem was originally hidden in truth (Huai Su made it himself) and its name was too white".
Whether cursive music was written by Li Bai has always been controversial. Huang Xixuan said: "Proofreading can't be deleted, so there is no experience left." According to Guo Moruo's textual research, Li Bai's cursive ballads were "written when Gan Yuan visited Lingling in the autumn of the second year (AD 759)."