It means using poetry and drinking to deceive other people’s eyes. How many more years will we have to live like this in the world?
From: Song Dynasty: Bai Yuchan's "One of Thirty Songs of Huayang" expresses the poet's dissolute drinking style. His happy scene is that he drinks wine happily, writes poems and wines, and spends several winters in the world of mortals. Floating waves.
Reflect that the real world is so unsatisfactory, and anesthetize yourself with poetry and wine. Don’t let yourself and others see the fragility of your heart, grit your teeth and live day by day.
Extended information
Bai Yuchan is very intelligent and self-taught. He is good at poetry and four-body calligraphy. His cursive writing looks like flying dragons and snakes, and he is especially good at painting plum and bamboo figures. Occasionally, he writes his own content, and it is completed immediately with a few strokes, which is beyond the reach of skilled painters. "History of Chinese Art" records his deeds, "Dictionary of Chinese Painters" has his biography, and the famous "Poems of a Thousand Families" has selected his poems.
He has read many books, is knowledgeable, and is proficient in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Due to his outstanding achievements in Taoist theory and practice, he was honored as the fifth ancestor of the Southern Sect of Taoism and had a profound influence on later generations. During the Two Song Dynasties, the Southern Taoist Sect followed the main trend of the times of the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. It took Taoism as its basis and actively absorbed and integrated Confucianism and Buddhism, which effectively improved the realm of Taoist inner elixir cultivation and the theoretical quality of Taoist philosophy in the Two Song Dynasties.