"Bringing in the Wine" was originally the melody of a Han Yuefu short flute and cymbal song, and it belongs to the old title of Han Yuefu's "Drum and Blow Song·Cao Song". The free translation of the title is "Song to Encourage Drinking". Will, please.
Later "Jianjinjiu" refers to the ancient poetry written by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai using the Yuefu ancient style. This poem was written after Li Bai returned to Chang'an. It has very profound ideological content and very mature artistic expression. The author was experiencing setbacks in his official career, so he took advantage of wine to write poems and express himself heartily.
In this poem, Li Bai "borrowed the topic", drank to relieve his sorrow, lamented that life is easy to grow old, and expressed his feelings of not being able to appreciate his talents. This poem very vividly reflects Li Bai's unruly character, full of confidence in himself, aloofness, enthusiasm and boldness, "I am born with talents that must be useful" and "to be successful in life, I must have fun".
The whole poem is full of majestic momentum, unrestrained emotion, fluent language, and extremely contagious. Li Bai's poems about wine can very well reflect his personality, with profound ideological content and mature artistic expression. "Jianjinjiu" is his masterpiece.
Creative background
In the early years of Emperor Xuanzong's Tianbao reign, Li Bai was recommended by the Taoist Wu Yun and recruited to Beijing by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, who ordered Li Bai to be enshrined in the Imperial Academy. Soon, due to the slander of the powerful, Li Bai was expelled from the capital in the third year of Tianbao (744), and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty granted him gold and released him. After that, Li Bai wandered around the Jianghuai area, feeling extremely depressed, and once again embarked on a long journey around the mountains and rivers of his motherland.
When Li Bai wrote this poem, it had been eight years since Li Bai was "gifted with gold and released" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. During this period, Li Bai and his friend Cen Xun (Cen Fuzi) were invited many times to the Yingyang Mountain residence of Yuan Danqiu, another friend of Songshan Mountain. The three of them climbed high to have banquets and wine and songs.
The poet was politically marginalized and beaten, and his ideals could not be realized. He often used drinking to vent his pent-up feelings. There is no better pleasure in life than having a drink with friends, and the author is at a time when he is "embracing talents for the world but not meeting them", so he is filled with untimely poetry and expresses his grievances through wine.