Tao Yuanming's Drinking and Its 17th Translation

I. Translation

Orchids grow in the vestibule, fragrant and waiting for the breeze. The breeze is blowing gently, and the weeds and herbs are distinct.

Go ahead, throw away my old ways, conform to nature or be approachable. Now that I'm awake, it's time to go home, and beware of all the birds hiding in the bow.

Second, the original text

Orchids grow in the front hall, breathing and waiting for the breeze. The breeze is blowing against the wind, and the weeds are fragrant.

Go on, lose my old way, conform to nature or Per. Now that you are awake to go, be careful that the bird abandons the bow.

Third, the source

Tao Yuanming's Collection of Twenty Drinking Songs No.17

Extended data

First, the creative background

Tao Yuanming's group poem "Twenty Drinks" is not a masterpiece of drunkenness, but the poet expresses his dissatisfaction with reality and his love for rural life on the topic of drinking, in order to escape persecution through drunkenness in the very sinister environment at that time. In his twentieth poem, he wrote, "But if you hate many fallacies, be lenient with others", which shows his good intentions.

Second, the appreciation of works

In the history of China's poetry development, poetry and wine have formed an indissoluble bond. Tao Yuanming is an outstanding figure among poets who enter poetry with wine. He wrote many drinking poems in his life. It can be said that he was the first poet who wrote a lot of drinking poems in ancient China. According to statistics, among his existing 142 poems, 56 are about drinking, accounting for about 40% of all his works.

His "Drinking" poem, including the preface before the poem, also has ten poems about drinking. There are indeed many drinking poems in Ji Tao, which should be unprecedented, if not unique.

Three. Brief introduction of the author

Tao Yuanming (352 or 365-427), also known as "Jingjie", was born in Xunyang Chaisang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province).

A great poet and poet at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Southern Song Dynasty. He served as Jiangzhou Wine Sacrifice, Jianwei Army, Zhenjun, and Pengze County Order, and the last official position was Pengze County Order. He left his post for more than 80 days and retired to the countryside. He is the first pastoral poet in China, and is known as the "School of Ancient and Modern Hermit Poetry", with a collection of Tao Yuanming.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Twenty Drinking Songs