The Original Text, Translation and Appreciation of Li Bai's "Soliciting the Bright Moon"

Tang Dynasty: Li Bai

Flowers in the next pot of wine, no friends, drink alone.

Raise my cup, I invite the bright moon, which brings me its shadow and makes us three people.

The moon doesn't know how to drink, but the shadow in front of it is behind.

I have to mingle with them and enjoy the happiness of spring.

The song I sing is bright and wandering, and I dance the shadow before wandering.

When you are awake, you are happy together, and when you are drunk, you go your separate ways. (Another version of Xiang is Tong)

I am willing to stay with them forever and forget the harm of friendship, just like the Milky Way.

If you don't love wine, the wine star can't go to heaven.

If you don't like wine, you shouldn't have the name Jiuquan.

Since heaven and earth love wine, I am worthy of heaven loving wine.

First, I heard that wine is better than saints, and then I heard that turbidity is better than saints.

Since sages are drinking, why ask for immortals?

Three glasses of wine can lead to Confucianism, and it is natural for Taoism to drink it all in one game.

I'm just drunk for fun, and this smell can't be passed down!

In Chang 'an in March, the spring is beautiful and the spring flowers are brilliant.

If I am lonely and sad in spring, who can only drink blindly for this beautiful scenery?

Wealth, poverty and longevity are naturally different, and each has its own talent.

There is no difference between natural life and life in a glass, and nothing in the world is conclusive.

When I was drunk, I lost my mind and plunged into my pillow.

I don't know myself, where can I find this kind of happiness?

Infinite worries are inextricably linked. I have 300 glasses of wine.

Even if the wine is less sad, the wine will not return.

Therefore, I know that a wine saint has a mellow heart and a bright self.

Words can only live in seclusion, without eating, drinking and hunger.

What's the use of fame if you don't want to drink it in the present age?

Crab pliers are a panacea, and the bad mountain is Penglai.

Have a drink for a while and get drunk on the high platform by moonlight.

Translation and annotation

There is a pot of good wine among the flowers. I drink it alone and I don't know each other. Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon drink * * *, plus his own figure just three people. The moon doesn't know how to drink, and the shadow is in vain. For the time being, with the shadow of the bright moon, spring night should take this opportunity to eat, drink and be merry. I sing, the moon lingers, I dance, and the shadows float back and forth. Play together when you are awake, and go their separate ways when you are drunk. I hope I can roam freely forever and meet you in the boundless Tianhe River. Heaven does not love wine, and wine stars cannot go to heaven. If you don't like wine, there should be no Jiuquan. Since both heaven and earth love wine, I deserve it. I heard about wine for the first time. ...

Translation and annotation

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Put a pot of good wine in the flowers, strangers, and drink alone.

Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon drink * * *, plus his own figure just three people.

The moon doesn't know how to drink, and the shadow is in vain.

For the time being, with the shadow of the bright moon, spring night should take this opportunity to eat, drink and be merry.

I sing, the moon lingers, I dance, and the shadows float back and forth.

Play together when you are awake, and go their separate ways when you are drunk.

I hope I can roam freely forever and meet you in the boundless Tianhe River.

Heaven does not love wine, and wine stars cannot go to heaven.

If you don't like wine, there should be no Jiuquan.

Since both heaven and earth love wine, I deserve it.

First I heard that wine is purer than holiness, and then I heard that wine is turbid than virtue.

Since all saints and sages drink, why bother to seek immortality? three

A glass of wine can pass Confucianism and Taoism, and a barrel of wine conforms to Taoism and nature.

I just want to get drunk, and this kind of fun can't be passed on to the awakened one!

In Chang 'an in March, the spring is beautiful and the spring flowers are like brocade.

Who can be as lonely as me in spring and only know how to drink here?

Rich and poor and longevity are inherently different, and each has its own strengths.

There is naturally no difference between life and death in the glass, and everything in the world is inconclusive at all.

Lost the world after drunkenness, plunged into the solitary pillow.

I didn't know I had myself when I was intoxicated. Where can I find this kind of happiness?

Endless sorrow and complexity, I have more than 300 glasses of wine.

Even if you drink less and worry more, you will never come back once you pour it.

Because of this, I know that the sage in the wine is drunk and cheerful.

Ci Su Can only lives in seclusion in shouyangshan, and Yan Hui will starve, eat and drink.

Contemporary people are reluctant to drink, what's the use of fake names?

Crab claw is a fairy medicine, and the bad mountain is Penglai.

Let's have a drink first and get drunk on the platform in the moonlight.

To annotate ...

1. Measure: drink. Drink alone: drink alone.

2. between: one is "below" and the other is "before".

3. No blind date: no close person.

4. "Raise a glass": I raise a glass to attract the bright moon to drink, and the bright moon, me and my shadow just merge into three people. Speaking of the figure under the moon, the figure in the wine and I are three.

5. It has already started. Don't understand: I don't understand, I don't understand. Fu Qin of the Three Kingdoms Wei: "It seems that the truth is incomprehensible."

6. Acts 23: In vain, useless. ACTS: Empty.

7.will: and * * *.

8. There is also spring: when the spring is bright.

9. Moon Wandering: The bright moon moves back and forth with me.

10. The shadow is messy: the figure is messy because of dancing.

1 1. Make love together: have fun together. One is "making love".

12. heartless swimming: the moon shadow is unconscious and doesn't understand feelings, so Li Bai makes friends with them, so it is called "heartless swimming".

13. Qi Xiang Han Yun: Meet in the sky. Period: date. Miao: It's far away. Han Yun: The Milky Way. This refers to the distant paradise fairyland. Miao Han Yun is a work of Biyan Bank.

14. wine star: ancient star name. Also known as the wine flag star. "Jin Shu Tian Wenzhi" says: "There are three stars in the right corner of Xuanyuan, and the wine official flag is also the main banquet." Han Kong Rong's "On Wine with Cao Cao": "The sky is full of wine, and the land is in Jiuquan County. People take wine virtue as their purpose."

15. Jiuquan: Jiuquan County, Hanjia. According to legend, there are springs in the county town, which taste like wine, hence the name Jiuquan. In Jiuquan City, Gansu Province.

16. Avenue: refers to the laws of nature. "The World in Zhuangzi": "The sky can be covered but not contained, the land can be covered but not covered, and the avenue can be covered but not argued, which shows that everything is dispensable and unnecessary."

17. Wine taste: the pleasure of drinking. Tao Qian's Biography of Shi Meng, the General of the Western Expedition in Jin Dynasty: "Wen (Huan Wen) asks you:' What's so good about wine that you love it?' You smiled and replied,' Be a gentleman, but you can't have fun in wine. "

18. "March" two sentences: one sentence is "Good birds sing the breeze, falling flowers are scattered like brocade"; One is "birds are singing in the garden and flowers in the courtyard are smiling like brocade". Xianyang City: This refers to Chang 'an City. City is a time.

19. Diameter beard: straight beard. Li Bai's poem "Entering Wine": "Why do you say, my master, your money is gone? , to buy wine, we drink together! ."

20. Poor communication: hardships and enlightenment. "Zhuangzi Jean Wang": "Those who have learned the Tao in ancient times are poor and happy, and those who are happy are not poor and happy; Morality is here, and poverty is the order of cold and heat. " Shorten: length. Refers to people's life span. "Han Gu Yong Chuan": "There are thick and thin merits, short merits, two times in the season, and ups and downs in heaven."

2 1. Nature: the creator of nature. Also refers to nature. Master Zhuangzi: "Today, heaven and earth are the melting pot, and nature is the great smelting. Is it evil to go? "

22. Qi death and life: there is no difference between life and death.

23. Wu Ran: Ignorance. Single pillow: single pillow. Stay alone and sleep alone. Tang Li Shangyin's poem "Playing Secretary Zhang" says: "Don't leave the museum alone, I will close the door myself."

24. Poverty: poverty and sadness. Historical Records Biography of Yu Qing in Ping Yuanjun: "However, Yu Qing is not poor, nor can she write a book for future generations to see herself." Ten Thousand Ends: A work "has ten million ends".

25.300 cups: one is "just a few cups".

26. wine saint: an alcoholic. Song Ceng Gong's poem "Zhao Zefu Bamboo Pavilion Gossip": "Poets are hard to be strong, but wine saints are still not wide."

27. Lying in the first sun: one is "Hungry Boyi". Shouyang, the name of the mountain. A mountain called Lei Shou is said to be the seclusion place of Boyi and Shu Qi Cai Wei.

28. Repeatedly empty: often poor. It is said that poverty means no wealth. Advanced Analects of Confucius: "Easy to retreat! Repeatedly empty. " The conclusion of peace: "Speaking of several sacred roads, even if there is nothing, I enjoy them." Yan Hui: A native of Lu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius' favorite pupil.

29. Enjoy drinking: Enjoy drinking. Biography of Emperor Gaozu in Historical Records: "Pei's father, brother, mother and old friend love drinking very much every day, so they laugh at the old ways."

30. Safe use: What's the function? Ann, what's the matter?

3 1. Crab claw (× o): the first pair of deformed feet of crabs. Shaped like pliers, used for eating or self-defense. "Biography of Bi Zhuo in the Book of Jin": "Holding a glass in your right hand and a crab claw in your left hand, you can spend your life on a floating wine boat." Golden liquid: a metaphor for fine wine. Tang Bai Juyi's poem "You Bao Jiao Si": "Wine is lazy to pour gold liquid, and tea grinds jade dust."

32. Bad mound: Bad accumulation forms a hill. It is said that there is a lot of wine, and they are addicted to it. "Dead Body" Volume: "Six horses climbed the rotten mountain, and the ark was full of wine pools." Penglai: the name of the sacred mountain in ancient legends. This refers to fairyland in general.

33. Take the moon: Use the moonlight. "Yuefu Poetry, Qingge, Four Seasons Ballads, Xiayi": "Pick hibiscus under the moon and get lotus seeds every night." ▲

References:

1, Zhan et al. Complete translation of Li Bai's poems. Shijiazhuang: Hebei People's Publishing House, 1997: 85 1-853.

2. Yu Haidong and other complete works of Tang poetry appreciation. Beijing: China Overseas Chinese Publishing House, 20 10: 123.

3. Pei Fei. Appreciation of Li Bai's poems. Chengdu: Bashu Bookstore, 1988: 6 1-69.