Spin tea milk with jade powder and enjoy the aroma of freshly pounded oranges.
Enjoy tea milk with jade powder, freshly pounded golden sage and orange fragrance from "Ten Beats (Late Autumn)". Original text: Liquor is in bloom for the ninth time, and the yellow flowers have passed the Double Ninth Festival. Wandering outside and around is like a dream, but inside there is nothing but hometown. The sun and moon are longer on the east slope. Jade powder is swirled to cook tea milk, and golden sage is pounded into fresh oranges. The frost-stained mustache supports the green sleeves, and the crazy man cannot understand the madness. A crazy husband gets even crazier as he gets older.
Translation: The newly opened liquor has been brewed nine times, and the yellow flowers have withered since the Double Ninth Festival. Everything around you is like a dream, intoxicated in it, no matter where you are, you are home. The sun and moon are long on the east slope. The tea milk made with jade powder is swirled, and the aroma of freshly mashed oranges wafts through the air. I barely got my frosty moustache and brushed my green sleeves. Don't say that the crazy man doesn't understand fanaticism. A crazy man becomes even more crazy as he gets older.
This poem depicts a late autumn scene, as well as the poet Su Shi's inner emotions and pursuits. The poet expressed the flow of time and the changes in life by describing the brewing process of liquor. The yellow flowers withered after the Double Ninth Festival, implying the deepening of autumn and the passing of years.
The poem "Everything outside and around seems like a dream, and nothing is home when you are drunk" expresses that when the poet is intoxicated and drinking, he transcends the shackles of the world and feels the tranquility of returning to his hometown. and comfort. The phrase "Dongpo's sun and moon last forever" means that Dongpo (Su Shi's word), as an individual, stays with time and leaves an immortal mark.
About the author
Su Shi (1037-1101) was a writer, calligrapher, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. His courtesy name is Zizhan and his nickname is Dongpo Jushi. Han nationality, Sichuan native, buried in Yingchang (now Jiaxian County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). He had a bumpy official career throughout his life, but he was knowledgeable and talented. He was excellent in poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing was unbridled, clear and fluent, and together with Ouyang Xiu, he was called Ou Su, one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties".
The poems are fresh and vigorous, good at using exaggeration and metaphor, and the artistic expression is unique. He is also called Su Huang together with Huang Tingjian.
He is good at calligraphy in running script and regular script. He can innovate his own ideas. His brushwork is rich and ups and downs, and has an innocent taste. He is also known as the four masters of Song Dynasty together with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and Cai Xiang. He has the same painting studies and literature, and discusses painting. He advocated spiritual resemblance and advocated "scholar painting".