Liangzhou Song
Author: William Wang in Tang Dynasty
Wine luminous cup; If you want to drink pipa, hurry up at once; Don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield; How many wars were fought in ancient times?
Text translation:
Grape wine, a glass that glows at night. When you raise the glass, someone rides a horse and plays a pipa to promote the wine. Please don't laugh at me when I am drunk on the battlefield. How many people who went to war since ancient times can come back!
Appreciate:
The first pair of couplets, wine and luminous cups, are rich in western characteristics, high-grade wine and cups, suggesting that the banquet is high-grade and rich in lowercase. Before the banquet, horse riding and pipa playing were still very popular in the western regions.
Wine and music, how can you not get drunk? Grape and pipa are also conjunctions. Pipa and the following battle are still disyllabic words, which are the same as drunk vowels. These words are nice to read and catchy.
Tail couplet, drunk on wine, cup, drink, urge. Being drunk and alive on the battlefield is much luckier than those who can't come back alive, and they can't laugh. Drunk is anesthesia, and soldiers are numb to the battlefield. Doesn't mean they got drunk after going through the battlefield and winning the war all the time.
Only those who died in battle can sing such poems and ask such sharp and practical questions if they see through the cruelty of war. Only by knowing life and death can we enjoy life, and the uninhibited style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty is perfectly presented in this poem.
This poem is very flexible, especially the second sentence, the first two sentences and the last five sentences, which is very unique. The fourth sentence ends with a question as a reason why you don't laugh. It contains all kinds of emotions and makes people think deeply. The rhyme and emotion of the whole poem are ups and downs, unpredictable, both unexpected and reasonable.
In the last two sentences, some people think that it was pre-war mobilization and banquet; Some people think it is a celebration dinner after the war, and sacrifices are made to the victims at the same time. I think this is just an ordinary banquet for border guards, eager to get drunk and solve all worries.
Some solutions are sad words, some solutions are joking words, and some solutions are broad-minded words. In fact, they are both, and they are harmonious, with a touch of sadness in their openness.