Source: Tang Li Bai, the first of four poems about the bright moon.
Flowers in the next pot of wine, no friends, drink alone. Raise my cup, I invite the bright moon, which brings me its shadow and makes us three people.
The moon doesn't know how to drink, but the shadow in front of it is behind. I have to mingle with them and enjoy the happiness of spring.
The song I sing is bright and wandering, and I dance the shadow before wandering. When you are awake, you are happy together, and when you are drunk, you go your separate ways.
I am willing to stay with them forever and forget the harm of friendship, just like the Milky Way.
Put a pot of wine in the flowers and pour it yourself. There are no relatives or friends. Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon into three people before the picture. Of course, Yue Ming won't drink. Her figure follows me. I had to form a wine companion with them for the time being. If I want to enjoy myself, I must seize the beautiful spring scenery. I sang about the moon, and my dancing figure was messy. When you wake up, you will be happy together, and when you are drunk, you will be separated. I would like to form an eternal friendship with them, forget the harm and meet at the edge of the misty galaxy.
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1, the creative background of four poems by Yue Dui (I)
This poem was written in the third year of Tianbao in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (744), when Li Bai was in Chang 'an, and the officialdom was frustrated. Under the title of this poem, the two Song editions and Miao editions are marked with the word "Chang 'an", which shows that these four poems were written in Chang 'an. At that time, Li Bai's political ideal could not be realized, and he was lonely and depressed. But in the face of the dark reality, he did not sink or drift, but pursued freedom and yearned for the light, which is why.
2. Enjoy the moon and drink four poems alone (I)
This is a carefully cut scene, but it is written so naturally. Li Bai and the bright moon alone, facing the bright moon and shadow, seem to form a picture of three people drinking in hallucinations. On this spring night, Li Bai was singing and dancing while drinking, and the moon shadow fluctuated with his mood, as if sharing his joy and sadness in drinking. Logically speaking, things have little to do with people's inner world.
From the perspective of poetics, the two are closely related. This is also the origin of "Xing" in China's poems. Li Bai's poems are in line with this "xing" writing style, which endows the moon and shadow with emotion. As Lin Yutang said: "It is a poetic belief in harmony with nature, which makes life fluctuate with the fluctuation of human emotions."
But at the end of the poem, Li Bai reveals a kind of lonely, not lonely, not lonely complex feelings. He knows that the moon shadows are heartless things, but they are just sentient beings. In the face of this heartless thing, does Li Bai still think that goodwill was ever safe? That is to say, when he is drinking alone with the moon, he will still invite him to sing and dance with him this month, even if it is "I see the long road of the Milky Way". Visible Taibai loneliness has reached a point!
It is with this song "Bring My Shadow, Let the Three of us" and "Drinking Alone with the Moon" that Li Bai makes people understand and admire his uniqueness. No matter men, women and children, any China person who drinks a cup will sing "Until I raise my glass, I ask the moon, bring me my shadow, and let the three of us" to express his appreciation of the so-called elegance and drinking alone. The uniqueness of this poem has long been transformed into the collective unconsciousness of the nation.