"Qiang Drinking" - Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty
If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River will come up from the sky and rush to the sea never to return. (Have you not seen that the turbulent water of the Yellow River seems to be pouring from the sky? It rolls eastward, towards the East China Sea, and will never return.)
Don’t you see the sad white hair on the mirror in the high hall? , The morning is like blue silk and the evening is like snow. (I saw my hair turning from black to white in the bright mirror in the high hall, and I felt sad. In the morning, my hair was still full of black hair, but in the evening it became like snow.)
To be happy in life, you must have all the joy, don’t Make the golden cup empty to face the moon. (Therefore, whenever you are proud of your life, you should enjoy it as much as you can, and never let the golden cup be empty to face the bright moon.)
I am born with talents that will be useful, and I will come back after all the gold I have spent. (Since God has created me as a pillar of talent, there will definitely be a place for it. Even if I lose a thousand taels of gold, I will get it again.)
Cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle for fun, you will have to Drink three hundred cups at a time. (Let’s have fun cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle. We meet today and we really want to drink three hundred cups.)
Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng: When you are about to drink wine, don’t stop drinking. I sing a song with you, please listen to it for me. (Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng, please drink quickly and don’t stop. I will sing a song for you. Please listen carefully to me.)
Bells, drums, food and jade are not expensive, but I hope you will be drunk for a long time. No more waking up. (There is nothing extraordinary about the wealthy life of those wealthy nobles. I hope I will always be intoxicated and unwilling to wake up.)
In ancient times, the sages were lonely, and only the drinkers left their names. (Since ancient times, all the sages have felt lonely, and only those who love wine can leave a good reputation.)
In the old days, King Chen had a banquet, drinking and drinking, and had a lot of fun. (Chen Wang Cao Zhi once held a banquet in Pingguang, even if a bucket of wine was worth ten thousand, he drank as much as he wanted.)
What does the master mean by saying that there is little money, it must be sold to the king. (Master, why do you say you don’t have much money anymore? Go and buy wine quickly so that we can drink together.)
The five-flowered horse and the golden fur will be exchanged for fine wine. I will be with you. Eliminate eternal sorrow. (Bringing in the precious five-flowered horse, taking out the expensive golden fur, and exchanging them all for fine wine, let us all melt away this endless eternal sorrow together!)
Background: Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty In the third year of Tianbao (744), after the poet Li Bai was expelled from Chang'an, he once again embarked on a long journey to travel around the mountains and rivers of his motherland. This article was written in the eleventh year of Tianbao (752). At this time, it had been 8 years since Li Bai was "granted gold and released" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. During this period, Li Bai and his friend Cen Xun (Cen Fuzi) were invited many times to the Yingyang Mountain residence of Yuan Danqiu, another friend of Songshan Mountain. The three of them climbed high to have banquets and sang songs to express their grievances. In this poem, Li Bai "used the topic to express his anger" and used wine to drink away his sorrow. This poem very vividly expresses Li Bai's unruly character: on the one hand, he is full of confidence in himself and aloof and arrogant; on the other hand, after the twists and turns in his political future, he reveals his indulgence in enjoyment. The whole poem is heroic, unrestrained in emotion, fluent in language, and highly contagious.