Original poem
You drank wine with me for me, drank wine with me, and we played chopsticks and sang songs together. Although your poetry is first-class and can be called a national champion, it is doomed that you can't get it. Dou Rong's eyes are decent, but you stay lonely for a long time. Full officials have their own satisfactory positions, but you are empty. I also know that you should be very tired, but these 23 years have been too much loss.
translate
You enthusiastically picked up the glass for me, filled it and got drunk. Let's knock on the plate with chopsticks and sing poems together. Although you are a first-class poet and a national player, that's all, but you can't get out and do nothing. This is fate. Everyone you look up to is glorious and decent, but you are lonely for a long time. Manchu officials have their own satisfactory positions, but you are wasting your time. I also know that you should be tired of being brilliant and famous, but the loss in these 23 years is too much.
Distinguish and appreciate
Bai Juyi has two good friends. When he was young, he had the deepest contact with Yuan Zhen. They are also called "Bai Yuan". In his later years, he was closely related to Liu Yuxi and was called "Bai Liu". Without the deep friendship between the two, without Bai Juyi's affirmation and appreciation of Liu Yuxi, there would be no poem.
Drunk Gifts to Twenty-eight Ambassadors of Liu is a seven-character poem by Bai Juyi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. This poem praises Liu Yuxi's talent, expresses extreme injustice and infinite emotion to Liu Yuxi's bumpy experience of being demoted as an official for 23 years, expresses their feelings of helping each other in the same boat, and criticizes the ruling class that does not cherish or even hurt talents. This poem embodies the characteristics of Bai Juyi's frank and sincere poetry, and dares to speak out and write all kinds of questions into the poem.
In return for this poem, Liu Yuxi wrote "Yangzhou will enjoy Lotte for the first time". Interestingly, later generations have a higher evaluation of Liu Yuxi's poem, especially that the phrase "Qian Fan on the side of a sunken ship and Wan Muchun in front of a sick tree" can better reflect Liu Yuxi's optimistic and open-minded realm, and is more artistic than Bai Juyi's complaining about the realm of fate in his poem.
There is no denying that Liu Yuxi's poems are more tenacious and bold to read, but the main characteristics of Bai Juyi's poems are frankness, sincerity, daring to say, and often write various problems into them.