Drinking alone under the moon Li Bai A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date. Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and make three people in the shadows. The moon doesn't know how to drink, and its shadow follows me. For now, the moon will be shadowed, and we must have fun until spring. My singing moon lingers, my dancing shadows are scattered. They make love together when they are awake, but they separate when they are drunk. We will travel together forever, and we will meet each other in Miao Yunhan. Li Bai's five-character ancient poems have a wide range of themes and styles. We have introduced two poems "Sauvignon Blanc" and "Changgan Xing" written by him after learning Yuefu folk songs, and this one "Drinking Alone under the Moon" is It is a full display of Li Bai's elegant wind spirit and romantic poetic style as well as his personal spiritual world. The whole poem consists of 1 to 14 lines, the first eight lines have flat tone rhyme, and the last six lines have oblique tone rhyme. As far as the genre of five-character ancient poetry is concerned, "Drinking Alone under the Moon" is not very long, but it contains the pursuit and yearning of a lonely and lonely soul. The only character appearing in this poem is Li Bai himself, but through the monologue, he stirs up layers of emotional waves in the depths of the soul. It is both ups and downs and willful and natural. It has always been considered the most important poem of Li Bai. A masterpiece of passion. Wine and the moon were Li Bai's most loyal companions who never left him for even a moment in his life. No matter where he went or where he was, he would always leave behind touching works about wine and the bright moon. For example, "Lanling has fine wine and tulips, and jade bowls hold amber light" ("Gu Zhong Zuo"); such as "Let's borrow the moonlight in Dongting on credit, and buy wine on the boat beside the white clouds" ("Pai Clan Uncle Xingbu Shilang Ye and Zhongshu Jia" "Five Poems on a Tour of Dongting"); such as "When will the moon come in the blue sky? I will stop drinking and ask now", "I only hope that when I sing and drink, the moonlight will always shine in the golden bottle" ("Asking the Wine to the Moon") ; Such as "If you are proud of life, you must have all the fun, and don't let the golden bottle stand empty against the moon" ("Jinjinjiu"). Through these popular poems, Li Bai created a unique realm that is both romantic and a little sad. The song "Drinking Alone under the Moon" is the one that takes this wine-moon complex to its extreme. At the beginning of the poem, our poet is in a very pleasant environment under the moonlight among flowers, "a pot of wine among flowers", a pot of wine among flowers, drinking happily, and getting drunk before resting. But unexpectedly, these flowers and this fine wine made Li Bai feel unhappy. What was the reason? It's because "there is no blind date when drinking alone"! Li Bai has a famous saying that can be used as a footnote to this poem, "When two people drink together, the mountain flowers bloom, one cup after another" ("Drinking with a Hidden Man in the Mountains"). With the company of like-minded "youthful people", we can go to the drunken land among the flowers and share the endless fun of drinking. But now I have no one to keep me company and I have to drink alone. But he had an idea and created a new realm for himself: "Raise a glass to the bright moon, and look at the shadow to become three people"! From the lonely "no blind date" to the chatting and laughing "three people", Li Bai completed it in one move and one shot. Look at him, when he raises his glass, the bright moon is with him, and when he lowers his head, his figure is with him. How natural and unrestrained, how comfortable, and so vividly like an "exiled immortal" that is hard to find in the world. How can others imitate him? The moon in the sky is Li Bai's eternal confidant in the spiritual world, and is also a frequent visitor in Li Bai's poems. He once recalled his first understanding of the moon when he was a child: "I didn't know the moon when I was young, and I called it a white jade plate" ("Gu Lang Yue Xing"); when he was away from home, the moonlight evoked his nostalgia as a wanderer: "The moonlight shines brightly in front of the bed, and I doubt it." It's frost on the ground. I look up at the bright moon and look down at my hometown" ("Thoughts on a Quiet Night"); in the autumn moon, he once expressed endless lovesickness: "Looking at the exquisite autumn moon under the crystal curtain" ("Resentment on the Jade Steps"); Under the moonlight, he can become close friends with the ancients: "I have been meditating under the moon for a long time and have not returned, and my eyes have been so close to each other since ancient times" ("Yin under the Moon on the West Tower of Jinling City"). So when we read "Toast a glass to the bright moon, and look at the shadow to form three people", we are not surprised or puzzled at all. Instead, we believe that this is the real Li Bai, the pure and romantic person who lives in his own spiritual world. Li Bai, the "immortal of poetry" who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world! Only he could do such an incredible move, and only he could write such elegant and elegant poems. "The moon doesn't know how to drink, and its shadow only follows me. I will accompany the moon for a while, and have fun until spring." Although Li Bai invited the moon to accompany his figure, it is a pity that the moon is far away in the sky, and it can only hang high in the sky. High in the sky, one cannot have a drink with Li Bai; although the shadow is close at hand, it will only follow him silently, unable to have real communication. At this moment, in this situation, the poet is still lonely in his heart. Perhaps there is a considerable gap in the ideological realm between geniuses and ordinary people, and their pursuit and exploration are often misunderstood. For example, because Li Bai's ideal of making contributions could not be realized, he refused to be a royal scholar and paved the way for the drunken life, dreams, death, singing and dancing of Emperor Tang Ming and Concubine Yang. Therefore, he did not enjoy the glory and wealth of the capital, and did not want the fine clothes and fine food. He did not do it until he was ordered to serve in the Imperial Academy. If you want to wander around the rivers and lakes, but also say that you "want to cross the Yellow River, which is blocked by ice, and you will climb the Taihang Mountains covered with snow" ("Traveling is Difficult"), isn't this asking for trouble and trouble? Perhaps it was this lack of knowledge of practice that the world saw as the reason why he eventually ended up as a "Changliu Yelang". The great poet Du Fu, who had a close acquaintance with Li Bai, wrote poems many times to express his admiration and concern for Li Bai: "The capital is full of crowns, but this man is alone and haggard" ("Dream of Li Bai, Two Poems"). However, even if Li Bai fell into the situation of "alone and haggard", he would never regret or bow to the world. One of his poems "Sitting Alone on Jingting Mountain" wrote: "All the birds are flying high, and I am alone." The clouds are gone alone. I never tire of looking at each other, only Jingting Mountain.
"Whether it is a living bird or an inanimate cloud, as long as it is