"Riding a small boat with a leaf, raising a cup to join each other" means: "We are riding a small boat with a leaf, raising cups to toast each other." It comes from Su Shi's "Ode to the Former Red Cliff" . This poem describes what the author and his friends saw and felt while boating on Red Cliff on a moonlit night. It uses the author's subjective feelings as clues and reflects the author's comfort during the moonlit night boating trip through the form of question and answer.
Su Shi (January 8, 1037 - August 24, 1101), also known as Zizhan and Hezhong, was also known as Dongpo layman, and was known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world. Han nationality, a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now part of Meishan City, Sichuan Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei Province. He is a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.