"Drinking Alone Under the Moon" Author: Li Bai A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date. Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and make three people in the shadows. The moon doesn't know how to drink, and its shadow follows me. For now, the moon will be shadowed, and 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. We will travel together forever, and we will meet each other in Miao Yunhan.
This is a carefully cut scene, but it is written so naturally. Li Bai was drinking 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 reveals a feeling of being unique but not unique, not unique but also With Du's complex emotions, he realized that the moon and the shadow were originally heartless things, but he was just passionate. In the face of this ruthless thing, Li Bai still wants to be together forever, which means that when he drinks alone under the moon, he still invites the moon and the shadow to sing and dance with him, even if it is "meeting Miao Yunhan" without hesitation. It can be seen how lonely the sentient beings in Taibai have reached! Stephen Owen once said: "Poetry is a tool. The poet makes people understand and appreciate his uniqueness through poetry." It was with this song "Drinking Alone under the Moon" that "the shadows become three people" that Li Bai became famous. Let us understand and appreciate his uniqueness. Today, any Chinese, regardless of age or sex, as long as he raises a glass to have a 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 integrated into the collective unconscious of our nation