Original poem:
A suggestion to Liu, a friend of Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi.
There is a glimmer of green in the old bottle and a hint of red in the quiet stove.
With dusk and snow coming, how about a glass of wine?
Rhyme translation:
The newly brewed rice wine is green and fragrant; A small red mud stove is burning crimson.
It's getting dark, and the snow is coming. Can I have a drink? Friend!
Free translation:
My newly brewed rice wine has not been filtered, and there is a layer of green bubbles on the surface of the wine, which smells good. A small red mud stove for scalding wine is also ready.
It's cloudy. It seems to snow at night. Can you stay and have a drink with me?
Extended data:
"Old bottles are green, and static stoves stir red" means that newly brewed rice wine is green and fragrant; A small red mud stove is burning crimson.
"It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside?" It means it's getting dark and heavy snow is coming. Can I have a drink? Friend!
To put it bluntly, this poem is a simple poem to greet friends to stay and drink. Imagine, near dusk, it will soon snow heavily, the newly brewed rice wine smells fragrant, and the red mud stove burns deep red in the cold winter. What a warm and inviting scene.
Bai Juyi likes to make friends, and this is the case with Yuan Zhen. After Yuan Zhen's death, Bai Juyi wrote the poem "You bury your bones in the mud spring, and I send snow all over the world", which can be described as true love. Liu Shijiu in this poem is a relative of Liu Yuxi and a friend of Bai Juyi. The other party is a wealthy businessman in Luoyang, and Bai Juyi is a famous local poet. The communication between them is also a great literary interest.
In such a cold and snowy winter, in such a twilight leisure time, inviting old friends to drink and catch up with the past shows the poet's deep friendship.
And it is worth noting that every sentence of this poem is shallow and affectionate, short and long. This shows that Bai Juyi is good at discovering poetry in life, refining poetry in life with his heart, and reflecting the spring scenery in human nature with poetry, which is what makes readers emotional.
There are three images in the poem: "home wine", "small stove" and "falling clouds and snow", which are not interesting to look at individually, but when these three images are brought into the overall organizational structure of this poetic situation, readers will feel a warm interest in life.
Baidu Encyclopedia —— A Suggestion for Friend Liu