At that time, Li Bai's political ideals could not be realized, and he felt lonely and depressed. But when he faced the dark reality, he did not sink or join in the evil, but pursued freedom and yearned for light.
It embodies the poet's loneliness and arrogance when his talent is not appreciated, and his unrestrained and unrestrained personality despite being frustrated.
Original poems:
"One of Four Drinking Alone Under the Moon" Tang Dynasty: Li Bai
A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date.
Toast a glass to the bright moon, and look at each other as three people.
The moon does not know how to drink, but its shadow follows me.
While the moon is about to be shadowed, we must have fun until spring.
My singing moon lingers, my dancing shadows are scattered.
They make love together when they are awake, but they separate when they are drunk. (Same Love, One Work: Love and Love)
We will never travel together without love, and we will meet again in Yunhan and Han.
Interpretation:
Put a pot of fine wine among the flowers and drink it yourself, without friends or relatives.
Toast a glass to invite the bright moon, and become three people facing the figure.
Of course Mingyue doesn’t drink, and her figure just follows me.
I had no choice but to become drinking companions with them temporarily. If I want to have fun, I must seize the beautiful spring time.
When I sing, the bright moon lingers, and when I dance, my figure is scattered.
We rejoice together when we are awake, but separate when we are drunk.
I would like to form a friendship with them forever that will forget the pain, and meet by the misty Milky Way.
Notes:
1. Drink: drink. Drinking alone: ??drinking alone.
2. Between: one means "down" and the other means "front".
3. No blind date: no one close to you.
4. Two sentences of "Toast": I raised my glass to invite the bright moon to drink. The bright moon, me and my shadow happened to form three people. It is said that the figure under the moon, the figure in the wine and I are three people.
5. Already: Already. Don't understand: Don't understand, don't understand. "Qin Fu" by Wei Ji Kang of the Three Kingdoms: "The reason is that it seems that Yuan did not understand the sound."
6. Disciple: in vain, in vain. Disciple: Empty.
7. Jiang: and, ***.
8. Spring: Take advantage of the bright spring weather.
9. The moon wanders: The bright moon moves back and forth with me.
10. Shadows are in chaos: The figures are in chaos due to dancing.
11. Friendship: having fun together. One is "making love".
12. Wuqingyou: The moon and shadow are unconscious and do not understand emotions. Li Bai makes friends with them, so they are called "Qingwuyou".
13. Xiangqi Miao (miǎo) Yunhan: promise to meet in the sky. Period: Dating. Miao: far away. Yunhan: Galaxy. This refers to the distant fairyland. "Miao Yunhan" is "by the green rock".
Creative background:
This poem was written around the third year of Tianbao reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (744). At that time, Li Bai was in Chang'an and was in a period of frustration in officialdom. Under the title of this poem, both the Song and Miao editions note the word "Chang'an", which means that these four poems were written in Chang'an. At that time, Li Bai's political ideals could not be realized, and he felt lonely and depressed. But when he faced the dark reality, he did not sink or join in the evil, but pursued freedom and yearned for light, which is why he did this.
Extended information:
This is a carefully cut scene, but it is written so naturally. Li Bai drank alone under the moon, facing the bright moon and shadows, and seemed to have formed a scene of three people drinking together in his hallucination. On this warm spring night, Li Bai sang and danced while drinking. The moon and shadows followed the ups and downs of his emotions, as if they were also sharing the joy and sorrow of his drinking.
Logically speaking, objects have little to do with people’s inner world. But from a poetic point of view, the two are inseparable. This is also the origin of "Xing" in Chinese poetry. Since the Book of Songs, it has been endowed with anthropomorphic movements, thoughts and emotions in nature, such as "the moon rises brightly, and the people stand out", "sad moon", "sad wind" and so on.
Li Bai's poem corresponds to this "Xing" writing method, giving emotions to the bright moon and shadows. As Lin Yutang said: "It is a poetic belief in harmony with nature, which makes life fluctuate with the fluctuations of human emotions."
But at the end of the poem, Li Bai revealed another He has a complex feeling of being alone but not alone, not alone but also alone. He understands that the moon and the shadow are ruthless things, but he is only sentimental. Faced with this ruthless thing, Li Bai still wanted to stay together forever, which meant that when he was drinking alone under the moon, he still had to invite the moon and the shadow to sing and dance with him, even if it was "meeting Miao Yunhan" without hesitation.
It can be seen how lonely Taibai has reached! Stephen Owen once said: "Poetry is a tool. The poet uses poetry to make people understand and appreciate his uniqueness." It was with this song "Drinking Alone under the Moon" that Li Bai "Drinking Alone under the Moon" where "the shadows become three people". Let people understand and appreciate his uniqueness.
No matter male or female, old or young, any Chinese person, as long as he raises a glass to drink, will chant "raising a glass to invite the bright moon, facing the shadow to form three people" to show his interest in the so-called elegance and drinking alone. The uniqueness of this poem has long been incorporated into the collective unconscious of the nation.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Four Songs for Drinking Alone Under the Moon