The meaning of this sentence is: Can I take a look at my humble house and drink a glass of warm wine?
From: "Asking Liu Nineteenth" by Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi
Original text of the work:
New fermented wine from green ants, small red clay stove.
It’s snowing in the evening, can you have a drink?
Vernacular meaning:
The light green rice wine is brewed and the small stove is heated.
The sky is getting dark and the snow is getting thicker. Can you take a look at the humble house and drink a glass of warm wine? Extended information
Creative background
Liu Shijiu was Bai Juyi’s friend when he was in Jiangzhou. There are only two characters in the whole poem. There is no far-reaching sustenance or gorgeous rhetoric, but the lines are filled with warmth and joy. The color tone and warm and fiery friendship express the warm and spring-like poetic sentiment.
The ingenuity of the verses in this work lies first in the careful selection and ingenious arrangement of the images. The expression of the whole poem is mainly completed by the combination of three images (new wine, stove, evening snow).
Bai Juyi spent most of his later years in Ludaolidi in Luoyang, singing harmony with Liu Yuxi, and often traveling around Longmen. In 845, when Bai Juyi was 74 years old, he still held the "Seven Elders Meeting" in Ludaolidi and attended the meeting. The painters include Hu Gao, Ji Jiao, Zheng Ju, Liu Zhen, Lu Zhen, Zhang Hun and Bai Juyi. In the summer of the same year, the "Nine Elders Picture" was painted by the seven elders, such as Ruman and Li Yuanshuang. In his later years, Bai Juyi believed in Buddhism and was named Xiangshan layman. He was a disciple of Seng Ruman.