Violet-(I am) violet, claiming to be immortal,
The restaurant has been hidden for thirty years-I have been in the restaurant for thirty years.
Why did Huzhou Sima ask-Mr. Huzhou Sima, why did you ask (who am I)?
Jin Su Tathagata is a backward person-(mine) will also be a Buddhist middleman (Vimalakīrti, Buddha) in the next life.
This is Li Bai's reply to Sima Shi, a Buddhist disciple in Huzhou, asking who Li Bai is. Although there are jokes in the poem, I am also white and true.