"Liangzhou Ci" describes the grand and luxurious wine banquet before the expedition and the scene of the soldiers drinking happily, showing the soldiers' broad-minded and unrestrained thoughts and feelings regardless of life and death.
From: "Liangzhou Ci" by Wang Han of the Tang Dynasty
The luminous cup of grape wine will prompt you to drink Pipa immediately.
Don’t laugh when you are lying drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times.
Translation: At the wine feast, the mellow grape wine was filled into exquisite luminous cups. The singers played the fast and cheerful pipa to encourage drinking, thinking that they were about to gallop to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Serving the country, the soldiers are all full of pride.
Liangzhou Ci: the name of Yuefu in Tang Dynasty. "Le Yuan": "Liangzhou Palace Ci and Music was introduced by Guo Zhiyun, the governor of Xiliang in the Kaiyuan Dynasty." It belongs to "Modern Song Ci" and is the libretto of "Liangzhou Song", the name of a popular tune in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Light-in-the-dark cup: A wine cup made of white jade that can be illuminated by light. This refers to a luxurious and exquisite wine cup. According to "Records of Ten Continents in the Sea", it was a treasure presented by Xihu during the reign of King Mu of Zhou Dynasty.
Desire: will. Pipa: This refers to the instrument used to make horn sounds during battle. Urging: to urge people to go to war; some people also interpret it as singing to cheer up.
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Creative background
This is a set of frontier poems, and its specific creation time cannot be confirmed. "Liangzhou Ci" is Yuefu lyrics, sung to the local tunes of Liangzhou (today's Hexi and Longyou areas of Gansu Province). "New Tang Book·Le Zhi" says: "Tianbaojian music tunes are all named after border areas, such as Liangzhou, Yizhou, Ganzhou and so on." This poem has a strong local color.
Judging from the title, Liangzhou belongs to the northwest frontier; judging from the content, wine was a specialty of the Western Regions at that time, luminous cups were imported from the Western Regions, pipa was produced in the Western Regions, and Hujia was a popular musical instrument in the Northwest. These are all related to the northwest frontier style.