1. If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you will be worried tomorrow. ——Tang Dynasty - Luo Yin's "Self-dispatch"
Interpretation: If you have wine today, get drunk. If you have worries tomorrow, wait until tomorrow to worry again.
2. With a pot of wine and a pole, how many people can be as happy as a farmer? ——Five Dynasties - Li Yu "The Fisherman·The waves are filled with thousands of miles of snow"
Interpretation: With a pot of wine and a fishing rod, how many people can be as happy as me.
3. But it makes the host drunk and the guests don’t know where they are in a foreign country. ——Tang Dynasty - Li Bai's "A Guest's Journey/A Guest's Work"
Interpretation: If the host serves such good wine, he will surely make the guests from a foreign land drunk. In the end, how can we tell where is our hometown?
4. If there is wine in life, you must be drunk. How can a drop of it reach the nine springs? ——Gao Zhu of Song Dynasty, "Wine on Qingming Day"
Interpretation: When a person has wine, he should drink it, and if he is blessed, he should enjoy it. After a person dies, not a single drop of his blood reaches the underworld.
5. If you enjoy a glass of wine before your death, why do you need a thousand years of fame after your death? ——Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "Three Poems on a Difficult Journey"
Interpretation: If you have a glass of wine when you are alive, you should be happy. Why should you care about the false reputation of thousands of years after you die?
6. Bring me a glass of wine and drink, and sing with you while beating chopsticks. ——Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, "A Drunk Gift to the Twenty-Eight Envoy Liu"
Interpretation: You enthusiastically took the wine glass and filled it with wine and drank together until we were drunk. We hit the plates with chopsticks and sang together. poetry.
7. If you are happy in life, you must have all the fun, and don’t let the golden bottle stand empty against the moon. ——Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "The Wine Will Enter"
Interpretation: When you are proud of your life, you should indulge in joy and don't let this golden cup face the bright moon empty without wine.
8. When will the singing and dancing of the Qingshan Tower outside the mountain and the West Lake stop? ——Song Dynasty - Lin Sheng's "Inscription on Lin'an Residence"
Interpretation: There are endless pavilions on the green hills as far as the eye can see. When will the singing and dancing on the West Lake stop?
9. The rain in Dongting comes to play the sheng, and the drunken moon makes the moon go backwards. ——Li He of the Tang Dynasty, "The King of Qin Drinks"
Interpretation: Like the raindrops falling on Dongting Lake, they are musicians playing the sheng. The King of Qin's wine is strong, and the moon is receding.
10. A gold bottle of wine costs ten thousand yuan, and a jade plate worth ten thousand yuan of treasure. ——Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, "Traveling is Difficult·Part One"
Interpretation: The gold cup contains expensive wine, and the jade plate is filled with delicacies worth thousands of dollars.