"Drinking the Song of the Eight Immortals" by Du Fu
Zhizhang was riding a horse as if riding a boat, and fell into a dazzled sleep at the bottom of a well. Ruyang's three battles began to face the sky.
Daofengqu salivated at the mouth of the carriage, and he couldn't bear to seal it to Jiuquan. The Prime Minister of the Left spends tens of thousands of money every day.
He drinks like a long whale sucking in hundreds of rivers. He holds a cup and enjoys the sage and calls him a sage. Zongzhi, a handsome and handsome young man, raised his glass and looked at the blue sky with his white eyes, which was as bright as a jade tree before the wind. Su Jin Changzhai embroidered Buddha in front of him.
When he was drunk, he often liked to escape to Zen. Li Bai wrote a hundred poems and slept in a restaurant in Chang'an City.
The emperor couldn't get on the ship, so he claimed that he was a wine-drinking immortal. Zhang Xu's biography of Three Cups of Grass,
Take off your hat and reveal your head in front of the prince, swiping paper like clouds of smoke. Jiao Sui fought five battles with Fang Zhuoran, and his eloquent talk shocked the four feasts.
"Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking" is a unique and characteristic "portrait poem". The eight Jiuxian are contemporaries and have all lived in Chang'an. They are similar to each other in terms of their drinking, boldness and broad-mindedness. The poet uses refined language and character sketching techniques to write them into a poem, forming a lifelike group portrait.
The first among the Eight Immortals was He Zhizhang. He is the oldest and oldest among them. In Chang'an, he once "exchanged the golden turtle for wine for pleasure" (Li Bai's "Reminiscences of Wine and the Preface to Congratulations to the Supervisor"). The poem says that when he was drunk, his riding posture swayed like a boat, his eyes were blurred and dazzled, and he fell into a well and fell asleep in the well. It is said that "Ruan Xian was drunk and was riding a horse, and people said: "I am like riding a boat on the waves. His drunkenness and drunkenness are filled with a humorous and cheerful mood, which vividly reflects his open-minded and indulgent character.
The next character who appears is Li Jing, King of Ruyang. He was the nephew of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and he was extremely favored for a while. It is said that "the Lord's favor is seen frequently" and "more than flesh and blood" (Du Fu's "Gift to the Prince and Grand Master of Ruyang County Wang Jing"), so he dared to drink three buckets of wine before going to worship. When he met the emperor, he also had a unique alcoholism. When he saw a wine cart on the road, he started drooling and wanted to move his fiefdom to Jiuquan (now part of Gansu Province). "Jinquan, the spring tastes like wine, so it is called Jiuquan" (see "Three Qin Chronicles"). In the Tang Dynasty, relatives of the emperor and noble ministers were eligible to invade the fiefdom. Therefore, among the eight people, only Li Jing could evoke the idea of ??"transferring the fiefdom" Others would not have such wild thoughts. The poet took advantage of the fact that Li Jing was born into a royal family and described his hedonic psychology and drunkenness in a realistic and measured way.
What follows is. It was Li Jinzhi. In the first year of Tianbao, he replaced Niu Xianke as the prime minister of Zuo. He treated guests well at night, spent tens of thousands of dollars on drinking every day, and drank as much as a whale gulped down water from hundreds of rivers. This summed up his luxury. However, the good times did not last long, and he was squeezed out by Li Linfu in the fifth year of Kaibao. After he was dismissed as prime minister, he had a drink with relatives and friends at home. Although his enthusiasm for drinking was not diminished, he could not help but be full of complaints. He wrote a poem: "When I dismissed the prime minister at the beginning of my life, I was happy with the saints." Holding the cup in hand, I asked the guests at the door, how many of them are here today? "("Old Book of Tang Dynasty. Biography of Li Jing") "Holding a cup of music, the saint is called Shuxian" is an adaptation of Li Jing's poem. "Lesheng" means that he likes to drink clear wine, and "Shunxian" means that he does not drink turbid wine. Combining him with the prime minister Judging from the facts, the meaning of "avoiding talents" is a pun, which means to satirize Li Linfu. Here, the important aspect of gaining and losing power is used to depict the character and carefully depict the portrait of Li Jingzhi, which contains profound political content and is very thought-provoking.
After the three dignitaries appeared, two handsome celebrities, Cui Zongzhi and Su Jin, appeared. Cui Zongzhi was a suave and handsome young man. When he was drinking heavily, he raised his wine glass and looked up with his eyes. The blue sky looks down on everything, as if there is no one around. After being drunk, it is like a jade tree swaying in the wind, unable to control itself. Du Fu describes Zongzhi's handsome appearance and elegant drunkenness, which is very charming. Sima Qian is good at writing "Historical Records". Du Fu is also good at capturing the contradictory behaviors to describe the characters' personality traits. On the one hand, Su Jin indulges in Zen and fasts for a long time, and on the other hand, he is addicted to drinking and often gets drunk. He is in a state of "fasting" and "drunk". In the conflict and struggle, the result is that "drink" often defeats "Buddha", so he has no choice but to "escape from Zen while drunk". These two short poems humorously show that Su Jin is addicted to alcohol and gets carried away, indulgent and helpless. The character traits of concern.
After the above five secondary characters are revealed, the central character makes a grand appearance.
Shijiu and Li Bai have an indissoluble bond, Li Bai himself said. "After a hundred years and thirty-six thousand days, three hundred cups must be poured in one day" ("Song of Xiangyang"), "The five mountains are shaken by the vigorous writing" ("Yin on the River"). Several lines of Du Fu's poems describing Li Bai stand out like reliefs. Li Bai was addicted to alcohol and often slept in restaurants in Chang'an City. It was not surprising that the sentence "The emperor couldn't get on the ship" suddenly made Li Bai's image tall and majestic. After Li Bai was drunk, he became more arrogant and unruly. Even when the emperor summoned him, he was not so respectful and frightened, but proudly shouted: "I am the immortal in wine!" "Strongly shows Li Bai's character of not being afraid of powerful people. "The emperor called and could not get on the ship", although it may not be true, it is very consistent with Li Bai's ideological character, so it has a high degree of artistic authenticity and strong artistic appeal.
Du Fu was a close friend of Li Bai. He grasped the essential aspects of Li Bai's thoughts and character and exaggerated them with romanticism, creating an artistic image of Li Bai who was unruly, bold and unrestrained, and looked down upon the feudal princes. This portrait is full of energy, both physical and spiritual, and glows with the radiance of ideal beauty, making it unforgettable. This is exactly the romantic image of Li Bai that people have loved for thousands of years.
Another important figure who appears alongside Li Bai is Zhang Xu. He was "good at cursive calligraphy and a good drinker. Every time he got drunk, he would run wildly, howling and swaying with his pen, making endless changes, as if there was divine help" (Volume 1 of "Du Sui"). At that time, he was known as the "Grass Saint". After Zhang Xu was drunk for three glasses of wine, his passion would flow out from his writing. He ignored the majesty of the powerful, took off his hat in front of the distinguished princes, exposed the top of his head, and wrote vigorously and freely, with the pen moving like a dragon and a snake, and the handwriting was as smooth as clouds and smoke. "Taking off one's hat and uncovering one's head in front of the prince" is such an arrogant, disrespectful and disrespectful act! It expresses Zhang Xu's wild and independent character.
The character at the back of the song is Jiao Sui. Yuan Jiao called Jiao Sui a commoner in "Gan Ze Ballad", which shows that he was a commoner. Jiao Sui became drunk after drinking five cups. At that time, he looked even more extraordinary, talked eloquently and eloquently, which shocked everyone present at the table. The poem depicts Jiao Sui's character traits, focusing on exaggerating his outstanding insight and argumentative eloquence, using precise and rigorous writing.
The mood of "Song of the Eight Immortals" is humorous, with bright colors, brisk melody and joyful mood. In terms of phonology, the rhyme goes from end to end, in one go. It is a strict and complete song line. Structurally, each character forms a chapter of its own, and the eight characters have clear priorities. Each character's personality characteristics are similar but different, and different but similar. They are diverse yet unified, forming a whole that sets off and reflects each other, just like A group sculpture in the round is truly original in art. As Wang Sisi said: "This creation has no previous cause." It is indeed a unique work in classical poetry.