It is fun to cook sheep and slaughter cattle, and you will have to drink three hundred cups at a time. ——Li Bai's "About to Enter the Wine"
Singing songs and laughing on the golden wall, the prince will be lightened by the moon after being drunk. ——Li Bai's "Recalling Old Travels and Sending Qiaojun Yuan to Join the Army"
Singing while drinking, what is life like? Like morning dew, it will be more painful every day when it goes away. ——Cao Cao's "Dan Ge Xing"
Don't quit drinking, this meeting will be difficult to share. Look at the silk on the female worker's machine and the red military flag on her half-work. ——Han Yu's "Giving Zhang Xuzhou Mo Cijiu"
After removing all the Pepsi, only wine and poetry remain. ——Bai Juyi's "Reciting Wine as a Gift to Comrades"
1. Translation:
We cook sheep and slaughter cows for fun, but (today) it is not enough to drink three hundred cups at once For more!
After getting drunk, he did not value his status as a prince for a long time.
You should sing loudly in the face of good wine. Life is short and the days and months fly by, just like the dew in the morning. There are too many days in the past!
Don’t refuse this glass of wine. It’s not easy to get together like this. Look, most of the red cloth woven by the brocade woman has been used as a war flag.
Tonight we don’t talk about secular things, we just drink and write poems.
2. Excerpt from the original text:
Singing while drinking, what is life! Like morning dew, it will be more painful every day when it goes away.
Generosity should be treated with generosity, and worries will be unforgettable. How to relieve worries? Only Du Kang.
Qingqing Zijin, my heart is leisurely. But for your sake, I still ponder it.
Yo yo, the deer roars, eating apples in the wild. I have guests who play the harp and sheng.
3. Explanation:
Singing while drinking, life is short and the days and months fly by.
Just like the morning dew, it is fleeting and there are too many lost days!
The singing at the banquet was passionate and generous, and melancholy filled my heart for a long time.
What can you do to relieve your depression? Only binge drinking can provide relief.
Those students wearing green collars (the attire of bachelors in the Zhou Dynasty), you make me yearn for you day and night.
It’s just because of you that I still recite it in pain.
Under the sunshine, the deer chirped happily and ate leisurely on the green slope.
Once talented people from all over the world come to my house, I will play the harp and sheng to entertain the guests.
4. Appreciation:
The whole poem gives full play to the specialty of poetry creation, and accurately and skillfully uses Bixing techniques to achieve the purpose of integrating reason with emotion and touching people. . In Cao Cao's time, he was already able to achieve the desired social effects according to the special rules of lyric poetry. This creative experience is obviously worth learning from. At the same time, because Cao Cao's emphasis on "elevating talents only" had certain progressive significance at the time, his highly artistic expression of the theme of "seeking talents" should also be recognized by history.
5. Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220), whose courtesy name was Mengde, whose last name was Jili, and whose nickname was Amo, was from Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou, Anhui Province). He was an outstanding politician, militarist, writer, and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms.