A suggestion for my friend Liu.
Author: Bai Juyi era: Tang Dynasty
There is a ray of green in the old bottle.
There is a hint of red in the quiet stove.
There is a feeling of snow in the dusk outside.
How about a glass of wine inside? ?
This poem describes that the poet invited a friend to drink on a snowy night. This poem expresses the sincere and intimate relationship between friends and the desire for wine in a homely style and simple and friendly language. The whole poem is concise and implicit, easy and free, and the lines are connected with each other.
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A suggestion for my friend Liu is a five-character quatrain written by Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty.
Keyword annotation
(1) Liu Shijiu: Among the poems left by Bai Juyi, Liu Shijiu was not mentioned much, only two. But there are many references to Liu's twenty-eight or twenty-eight ambassadors. Liu 28th is Liu Yuxi. Liu Shijiu is his cousin Liu Yutong, a wealthy businessman in Luoyang, who often associates with Bai Juyi.
⑵ Green ant: refers to the green foam floating on the newly brewed unfiltered rice wine. Fermented grains (pēi): brewing. There is a ray of green in the old bottle: the wine is newly brewed. When the new wine is not filtered, there is wine residue floating on the wine surface, which is slightly green and as fine as ants, and is called "green ants".
(3) Snow: Snow, used as a verb here.
⑷ ⑷: Modal particles expressing doubts are equivalent to "Yao" or "Mo".
Easy-to-understand vernacular translation
Made light green rice wine and burned a small stove.
It's getting late and it's snowing harder and harder. Can I have a cup of hot wine in my humble abode?
Creation background
A suggestion for a friend Liu was written by Bai Juyi when he lived in Luoyang in his later years. "It snows at dusk and he misses his old friends." Liu Shijiu was a friend of the author when he was in Jiangzhou, and the author wrote a song "Liu Shijiu Sleeps Together", saying that he was Chu Shi of Songyang. Some people think that this poem was written in the twelfth year of Yuanhe (8 17), but the poet is Sima in Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), so it is impossible to invite Luoyang's old friends to drink.
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There are only twenty crosses in the whole poem, and there is no profound sustenance or flowery rhetoric. But between the lines, there is a warm and cheerful color, a warm and warm friendship, and a warm and spring-like poetry.
The cleverness of poetry is first of all the careful choice and clever arrangement of images. The expression of the whole poem mainly depends on the combination of three images (new wine, stove and sunset snow). In the phrase "new wine in old bottles". Because the wine is newly brewed and unfiltered, the wine surface is covered with wine residue foam, slightly green and as small as an ant, so it is called "green ant". The first sentence of the poem describes the light green, turbid and rough home-brewed rice wine, which is easy to arouse readers' association and makes readers seem to see the fragrant and sweet rice wine. The second sentence, "There is a red commotion in a quiet stove", is a simple and warm stove, and the fire is burning red. The poet sat around the fire, and the blazing fire lit up the house at dusk and the wine with green foam. "A quiet stove stirs red" plays a role in rendering colors and setting off the atmosphere for the drinking environment. The wine is already very attractive, and the fire adds a warm atmosphere.
The first sentence and the second sentence of the poem use two images of "home wine" and "small stove", which are very germinal and suggestive, and are easy to arouse readers' association with simple and authentic rural life. The last two sentences: "It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside?"? ? "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. The arrangement of the image of "snow" outlines the broad background of friends gathering and drinking. The cold wind is rustling and the snowflakes are fluttering, which makes people feel cold and cold. The more so, the more it can reflect the fiery stove and the preciousness of friendship. The three images of "home wine", "small stove" and "falling clouds and snow" are separated and isolated, which seems bland and has no lasting appeal. However, when these three images are integrated into the overall organizational structure full of poetic situations, readers will feel a charm, realm and sentiment that is not a single image but depends on the overall organization. Winter, dusk, snowstorm, new wine, fire has been lit. Only when friends arrive early can the three images become a colorful, tangible and affectionate picture, which is filled with the warmth of friendship and the fragrance of human nature.
Brief introduction of the author
Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word Lotte,No. Xiangshan lay. His ancestral home was in Xinzheng, Baijuyi, Henan, and his ancestral home was in Taiyuan (now Shanxi), and later he moved to Xialuan (now northeast of Weinan, Shaanxi). Zhenyuan Jinshi, awarded the secretary provincial school book lang. During the Yuanhe period, Zuo Yi was a posthumous child and Zuo Zanshan was a doctor. Later, due to the above requirements, the murderer who stabbed Prime Minister Wu was severely arrested, offended powerful people and was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima. In the early years of Changqing, he was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, and Bao Li was appointed as the secretariat of Suzhou in the early years, and later served as the minister of punishments.
In literature, he advocated that "articles should be written in time, and songs and poems should be written for things", and he was an advocate of the New Yuefu Movement. His poetic language is well-known, and he is praised as "the poet's magic" and "the poet's king". And Yuan Zhen were called "Bai Yuan" and Liu Yuxi was called "Bai Liu". There is a collection of Bai Changqing handed down from generation to generation.