It means: I don’t yearn for a luxurious life, I am free in sex and taste, I don’t have to drink alcohol, drinking tea is also a kind of enjoyment, and enjoying flowers and plants is nothing. I can also get the same pleasure in books.
From: [Qing Dynasty] Zuiyue Shanren's "The Complete Biography of Fox Fate".
Original text: Tea is also intoxicating, why do I need wine? Books are fragrant themselves, so why do I need flowers? ?If the wine is not intoxicating, everyone will get drunk; if the flowers are not charming, everyone will be fascinated. ?When you chant it, your heart feels like white snow, and even the fragrance of plum blossoms is clear. ?The Huansha of the past is hated today, ?The beauty is going to be on a blind date as promised.
"Tea is also intoxicating, why do I need wine, and books are fragrant, so I don't need flowers." It talks about the author's open-minded mentality.
Improved taste, wine, tea, flowers, and books bring happiness to the soul. Why not? It is comfortable and contented. It is also intoxicating and can smell good to me. In short, it is an artistic conception of inner prosperity and happiness.
Extended information:
The Complete Biography of Fox Fate
Twenty Chapters in Five Volumes
Fox Fate
Titled "Written by Zuiyue Mountain Man".
Guangxu Wuzi (1888) Dunhoutang publication. The inner seal is signed "Guangxu Wuzi Issue" with the title "Complete Biography of the Embroidered Fox's Fate" in the middle and "Dunhou Tangzi" engraved on the left. The center of the tablet is engraved with "The Complete Biography of Fox Fate". There are nine lines in the half leaf, with eighteen characters in each line. There are eight pictures. Except for the two pictures of Fairy Yunluo and Princess Fengxiao, each of which has half a leaf and no praise, the others are all half pictures and half a leaf of praise.
The Tanci catalog in Hu Shiying's "Tanci Baojuan Bibliography" collected in the Nanjing Library contains six volumes and 22 chapters of "Fox Yuan", which is said to be "not many lyrics". There are indeed a few libretto in this book, but they are almost the same as the rhymes used for description in the novel. They are traces left over from the libretto adapted into the novel. "Sun Mu" also contains this catalogue, which contains the Wenyoutang and Shanchengtang editions of Wuzi, Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1888), and is also six volumes and 22 chapters.
---Published "Summary of the General Catalog of Popular Novels"
Summary of Contents
"Fox Yuan", six volumes and twenty-two chapters, titled "Drunken Moon" Written by Mountain Man". It is a novel adapted from the Tanci "Qingshi Mountain" during the Guangxu period. The book "Fate of the Fox" tells the story of Zhou Xin, a scholar who is smart, elegant, and elegant, and falls in love with the jade-faced fairy girl named Nine-tailed Fox in Qingshi Mountain, but eventually becomes ill and cannot afford it.
Zhou Xin’s slaves and tenants successively asked Lu Dongbin, Li Tianwang, Nezha, and Erlang Shen to suppress and drive them away. The Jade-faced Fairy also asked Fairy Yunluo and Fairy Fengxiao to help fight.
After a fierce battle, the jade-faced fox was captured by the heavenly soldiers. However, because Zhou Xin was always attached to the jade-faced fox, the jade-faced fox also loved Zhou Xin until his death, so he moved the immortals and brought them together as an official couple.
The novel has a strong folk color, is trance-like, grotesque, and lingering. It can be called an excellent work of vernacular fantasy novels.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Complete Story of Fox Fate