I hope I stay drunk and don’t want to wake up. The previous sentence is that bells, drums, food and jade are not expensive.
This sentence comes from Li Bai's "Jinjinjiu". This is a poem composed by Li Bai based on ancient Yuefu inscriptions. This poem was written after Li Bai returned to Chang'an. It has very profound ideological content and very mature artistic expression. It has the greatest influence among the works with the same title.
Background of the creation of "Jianjinjiu":
There are different opinions about the writing time of this poem. Yu Xianhao's "Collection of Li Bai" believes that this poem was written around the 24th year of Kaiyuan (736). Huang Xiwei's "Catalogue of Poems Chronicled by Li Taibai" was published in the 11th year of Tianbao (752). It is generally believed that this was written by Li Baibai when he left Beijing during the Bao period, roamed the Liang and Song Dynasties, and met his friends Cen Xun and Yuan Danqiu.
In the early years of Tang Xuanzong's Tianbao reign, Li Bai was recommended by Taoist Wu Yun and recruited to Beijing by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, who ordered Li Bai to be enshrined in the Imperial Academy. Soon, due to the slander of the powerful, Li Bai was expelled from Beijing in the third year of Tianbao (744), and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty granted him gold and released him. After that, Li Bai wandered around the Jianghuai area, feeling extremely depressed, and once again embarked on a long journey around the mountains and rivers of his motherland.
When Li Bai wrote this poem, it had been eight years since Li Bai was "gifted with gold and released" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. During this period, Li Bai and his friend Cen Xun (Cen Fuzi) were invited many times to the Yingyang Mountain residence of Yuan Danqiu, another friend of Songshan Mountain. The three of them climbed high to have banquets and wine and songs. The poet was politically marginalized and beaten, and his ideals could not be realized. He often resorted to drinking to vent his pent-up feelings.
There is no better pleasure in life than having a drink with friends, and the author is at a time when he is "embracing talents for the world but does not meet them", so it is inappropriate for him to use wine to write poems to express his grievances.