At the banquet, mellow grapes and fine wine are packed in delicate luminous cups, and geisha play the hurried and cheerful pipa to help them drink. The soldiers were filled with pride at the thought of killing the enemy across the battlefield and serving the country.
You must get drunk today, even on the battlefield. This time, I went out to serve my country. I'm dying, but I'm not ready to come back alive.
Background: The Book of Music in the New Tang Dynasty says: "Tianbao Music Tunes are all named after border areas, such as Liangzhou, Yizhou and Ganzhou." This poem has a strong local color. From the title, Liangzhou belongs to the northwest border; From the content point of view, wine was a specialty of the western regions at that time, luminous cup was introduced from the western regions, pipa was produced in the western regions, and Hu Jia was a popular musical instrument in the northwest region. This group of seven wonders is just a group of beautiful frontier poems.
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The seven-character quatrain "Liangzhou Qu": "Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa, you should urge it immediately. You can't laugh when you're drunk. You have fought several wars since ancient times. " The author, Zi, was born in Jinyang, Bingzhou, Tang Dynasty. For this poem, Sun Zhu, editor of Three Hundred Tang Poems, commented: "Broadness makes me feel sad." Sun Zhu deserves to be a bosom friend, and his eight-character comment on writing accurately tells the meaning of this poem.
This poem not only has profound implications, but also has frontier scenery. It is really a poem with pictures and pictures. In the highly developed Li Tang period, there were not only paintings in poems and poems in paintings, but also music in poems and music in poems.
The poet set the first sentence of this opening with passionate brushstrokes, sonorous tones and dazzling words. "Night glass wine" is like a curtain suddenly opened, showing a colorful, dazzling and fragrant wine feast in front of people. This scene gives people surprise and excitement, creates an atmosphere and sets the tone for the lyric of the whole poem.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Liangzhou Ci Poems, Part One