"Wine into the intestines, seven points into the moonlight.
The remaining three points into a firm but gentle roar.
Embroidering and spitting, half of the Tang Dynasty. "
Taiwan Province poet Yu Guangzhong's Looking for Li Bai is a wonderful singing of Li Bai. (1) Here "Poet Fairy" and "Brewmaster" have found the real connotation in Li Bai. Wine is Li Bai's closest companion. Among his 1500 poems handed down from generation to generation, there are 170 poems about drinking. Such as: "36,000 days in a hundred years, 300 cups will be poured every day", which expresses a happy and chic life proposition; "But since the water is still flowing, even though we cut it with a sword, raising our glasses to eliminate our worries is even more worrying" vividly depicts the extreme of melancholy; Another example is "Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he likes, and never point his golden cup at the moon!" " When will the moon drink? It is especially important to enjoy life at this moment.
In the process of poetry creation, wine is an important source of inspiration for Li Bai's poetry creation. With wine as the carrier, he concretized abstract emotions and showed his inflated personality consciousness incisively and vividly. He sometimes used wine to drown his sorrows, and wrote wine with poems to express his dissatisfaction and detachment from reality; Sometimes in wine, I indulge in joy and show my pride. This article will elaborate from three aspects:
1. Sad with wine and celebrate with poetry.
"One hundred and thirty-six thousand days, you must pour three hundred cups a day" (2)
, "three hundred and sixty days, drunk as mud every day", (3)
This is a true portrayal of Li Bai in Brewmaster. Wine has become an indispensable part of Li Bai's life and even his life. Li Bai's drinking-addicted character made him abstinent and unrestrained. On the other hand, Li Bai was deeply influenced by Confucianism and had a strong thought of being born and saving the world. However, the contradiction between ideal and reality affected the poet's fate and made Li Bai's life experience a bit more sad. Therefore, poets take wine as their song, poetry as their ambition, and pursue their lofty ideals in the country of poetry. For example:
Try to use the whip of the king to command Rong Lu to sit at the table.
The south wind swept away Shh, went west to Chang 'an and reached Japan.
In this song "Song of Wang Dong Forever", the poet outlined a magnificent picture for us: holding Wang Ci's whip, bravely attacking Rong Lu with a sword, holding a banquet when he succeeded, showing his heroic demeanor, expressing his lofty aspirations and showing his great ideal of securing the world and helping the people. In addition, in "Into the Wine", Li Bai wrote:
Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he wants to go, and never point his golden cup at the moon empty! .
I was born, spinning a thousand pieces of silver, come back! .
Life is proud, drink heartily, and all the sadness is drowned in thousands of glasses of wine. The poet is wild and uninhibited, especially when "thousands of dollars are used up" comes again. This masterpiece of expressing ambition through wine is not only a song of persuading wine, but also a song of grief and indignation, a song of death. It has a high degree of conceit and self-confidence. Since God has given talents, let them find jobs! And negative thoughts, oh, let a spiritual person take risks where he likes. It's sad, it's depressed; Full of lofty sentiments and high spirits. The whole poem, with sincere and natural feelings, can be described as "clear water produces hibiscus, natural carving" From this, we can realize that in the poet's mind, wine is no longer a simple wine, but a unique symbol of governing the country.
Li Bai's life is uneven, and it is also a life of constant pursuit of ideals and persistent struggle against the secular. In reality, Li Bai always dreamed of realizing his ambition of "doing his best to help others" and establishing the great cause of "saving the world", but he always ran into a wall. In such a life situation, wine has become the best liberation of the poet, and it has also become the greatest comfort after the poet's ambition is shattered. However, from beginning to end, what Li Bai's drinking poems show and focus on are mostly sadness, depression, loss and distress after expressing or writing his ambition, which is a concrete manifestation of the poet's initiative to use the world.
2. Relieve your worries by drinking and solving your worries by poetry.
Li Bai is brilliant and has great political ambitions, but he has never been valued by the court. He has been wandering in rivers and lakes for a long time, and his life has been bumpy. There are two main reasons for this: first, political corruption and dark officialdom; Secondly, it is determined by Li Bai's own personality defects. Arrogant, alcoholic, not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, frustrated career. He often has the resentment that "the road is like the blue sky, and there is no way to go". Anger and frustration have deeply influenced Li Bai's poetry and song creation, which is embodied in his drinking poems: to drown one's sorrows with wine and to drown one's sorrows with poetry.
Raise a glass to drown our sorrows, but since the water is still flowing, although we cut it with our swords,
In this world, life is unpleasant. Tomorrow I will loosen my hair and get on a fishing boat.
This poem is from Li Bai's "Shu Yun, Xie Tiao Building, Xuanzhou, Farewell to School". This poem is only twelve sentences, but the feelings have jumped several times, intermittently, for no reason. The theme of the poem is farewell, but it does not write farewell or architecture, expressing that the poet still remembers the satisfaction of Chang 'an's official career after experiencing too many honors and sorrows in life. "But since the water is still flowing, although we cut it with our swords, we raise our glasses to drown our sorrows" is the most wonderful sentence in the poem. The language is bold and natural, and the melody is harmonious and unified, which profoundly shows the irreconcilable contradiction between the poet's ideal and reality, and reaches the extreme of depicting the melancholy for thousands of years. Facing the reality, the poet can only raise a glass to dispel his worries, but his worries are increasing day by day.
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.
Alas, the moon cannot drink water, and my shadow follows me blankly; ; I have to mingle with them and enjoy the happiness of spring.
Drinking the bright moon alone is a poem to drown one's sorrows by drinking. Although there is not a sad word in the whole article, there is a sad word in every sentence. At this time, due to political frustration and disillusionment, the poet fell into deep depression and could not escape. Sometimes he drinks crazy songs to vent his anger; Sometimes he hides in a secluded place and drinks alone to get spiritual peace and comfort. This poem belongs to the latter situation. The poet regards the moon and the shadow as friends, describing them truly and naturally, and the lonely sadness jumps from the paper, while "Alas, the moon can't drink, and my shadow labels me as empty;" It conveys the poet's deep regret and helplessness. Li Bai talks about "eating, drinking and having fun", but it is hard to hide his inner desolation and loneliness. He was hit hard in real life, so he deliberately avoided the darkness and filth of reality and turned to this quiet moonlight greenhouse to find some joy. "I sang. The moon encourages me and I dance. After my shadow rolled down, the poet was immersed in his own fantasy and enjoyed a moment of freedom and joy. The poet's image of taking pleasure in suffering and being drunk in his poems makes people deeply moved and sympathetic.
conclusion
Du Fu once said: "Li Bai has a hundred poems about fighting wine and sleeps in Chang 'an Street Restaurant. The son of heaven didn't get on the boat, claiming that I was Brewmaster. "As one of the most attractive poets in China's literary history, Li Bai used his bohemian life temperament to combine wine poems perfectly, won the reputation of' Poet Fairy' and' Brewmaster', and performed outstanding poetry movements, which resounded in the historical chapters of China's poems.