The Translation and Appreciation of Bai Juyi's Poem of Chanting to the Huai.

The mirror at night covered my white hair, and the wine in the morning made my face glow red. It's a pity that I'm still pretending to be young. I thought it was time to relax. Cinnabar is very cheap, just like clods, but somehow it can be burned into elixir.

My black hair has turned white now, and I haven't heard the news that I can retire and go home. Oh, you are a gentleman, how can you degenerate into a little urchin? Whenever I meet poetry and wine, I forget to eat and sleep.

Sometimes when you think of a good sentence, you have to read it out loud as if you were a poet. Fill the bar with wine, drink it off, and then you completely forget what happened outside. Once upon a time, there was a gentleman who was drunk and fell asleep on the ground, using the ground as a mat and the sky as a quilt.

There are still his remains there now. Should I be allowed to sleep there? I woke up to drink, and then I wrote a poem after drinking. Looking back at his wife and children, I realized that life at home was tight.

I also know that it is wrong to drink and write poems every day. Besides, I'm over 50 years old, and it's not that I don't want to change these problems. But if I want to change them, I am not practical in my heart. Let's call it a day. Everything else is old-fashioned gossip.

Appreciate:

A metrical poem by Bai Juyi. Bai Juyi advocated the popularization of poetic language all his life. Therefore, even in metrical poems, the language is relatively easy to understand. What's more, this poem was written by Bai Juyi when he was drunk, which was more casual.

It is helpful to have a brief understanding of Bai Juyi's experience. Bai Juyi is a devout Buddhist and believes in Maitreya most. He often told fellow initiates to "swear to be a Buddha" (pure land is Maitreya's territory, just as the western paradise is Amitabha's territory).

However, he has experienced many ups and downs in this world, and his official career is also ups and downs. More unfortunately, Bai Juyi's sons born when he was young all died, and he had a son in his later years, but he didn't live to be ten years old, which can be said to be the last time. Xiangshan Temple, who lived on the other side of Longmen Grottoes in his later years, was called "Xiangshan layman" by the world.

Bai Juyi's hair and beard were gray, so he got drunk and turned red.

A hundred years later, everything went up in smoke. Life is in a hurry Most people don't live for a hundred years, but they pass in an instant. When a person dies, the prosperity of his life is meaningless.

Bai Juyi looked at himself. He is old and sick (layman refers to a Buddhist practicing at home), but he will go crazy after drinking too much. It's really "an old man talking about youth madness".

"Those who can still smell good things will draw me on the screen." Bai Juyi's poems are well written and romantic. Everyone (especially singers) likes to sing Bai Juyi's poems, and painters also like to paint the image of Bai Juyi as a great poet on the screen to help everyone's mood.

Extended data creation background:

Bai Juyi's philosophy of "poverty and loneliness" was mostly embodied in a "leisurely life" in his later years. In 844, 73-year-old Bai Juyi funded the excavation of the stone beach around Longmen, and after the completion of the work, he wrote a poem "Two Stone Beaches in the Eighth Section of Longmen" as a souvenir, which still embodies his outlook on life of "helping the world and achieving the goal".

Bai Juyi spent most of his later years in Luoyang, singing with Liu Yuxi and often traveling in Longmen. Self-report "Chapter on the Pool" and "Biography of Mr. Drunk Sound".

In 845, 74-year-old Bai Juyi still held the "seven old Meeting" in Ludi, attended by Gao Hu, Ji Jiao, Zheng Zhi, Serina Liu, Lu Zhen, Zhang and Bai Juyi. In the summer of the same year, Li Ruman, a monk from seven old, joined forces to draw a picture of Nine Old Pictures. Bai Juyi believed in Buddhism in his later years and was named a Buddhist in Xiangshan. He is a disciple of the monk Ruman.