So, Li Guinian hurried out of the palace to find Li Bai, waiting left and right, only to know that Li Bai was drinking in a restaurant on Chang 'an Avenue. However, when he arrived at the restaurant, Li Bai was already drunk, which was what to do. But what the emperor says must be obeyed. The emperor wants to call Li Bai into the palace, but he can't do it without going. Finally, Li Guinian decided to put him back on the horse.
In the palace, after Li Bai woke up, Xuanzong said to him, "Li, the peony is in full bloom today, and my wife and I are enjoying ourselves here." We don't want to listen to those cliches any more, so we ask you to invent new words. " Hearing this, Li Bai said to the emperor, "Go back to see the emperor. It is not difficult for me to write lyrics. Please give me wine first. " Yang Guifei couldn't help but ask with concern, "Li, you just woke up and got drunk. What can you do? " Li Bai bowed down and replied, "When I returned to the imperial concubine, I wrote a hundred poems about fighting wine. When I was drunk, my poems poured forth." Xuanzong couldn't help laughing: "In that case, bring the top-grade wine from the western regions and let Li Yi get drunk!" Yang Guifei also said, "Li, let me pour wine for you with this cup to make you happy." So I personally poured a full glass of wine for Li Bai. Li Bai took the wine, gulped it down, and drank several cups in succession, only to feel slightly drunk and on cloud nine, and immediately wrote three famous "Qingpingdiao".
Tang Xuanzong was very happy to read these three songs "Qingpingdiao". He immediately ordered the musicians to sing and personally played the accompaniment of Yu Di. This well-known story has been circulated among the people for hundreds of years. However, the mystery of Li Bai's drunkenness was not revealed until modern times.
It turns out that alcohol contained in wine can cause physical changes of brain cells in protein, while protein contains fat. People who drink a lot for a long time will harden the membrane of brain cells. This pathological state can only be temporarily restored to normal by drinking.
As we all know, Li Bai's long-term alcoholism is undoubtedly chronic alcoholism. At ordinary times, his brain cell membrane is in a state of sclerosis, so it is difficult to recite poems. It is necessary to drink a certain amount of wine to temporarily restore the brain cell membrane to normal, so that he can think quickly and write good poems. So Mr. Guo Moruo once commented on Li Bai. Li Bai is most sober when he is drunk, and most confused when he is not drunk.
It is worth mentioning that in the Tang Dynasty, China did not brew high-alcohol liquor, but generally drank rice wine brewed with glutinous rice or yellow rice, which was equivalent to modern inferior liquor. The alcohol content was very low, so Li Bai could drink dou liquor and dared to say, "36,000 cups a day will last for a hundred years." If today's 60-degree liquor, let alone 1 drinks 300 cups a day, I'm afraid I can't even drink 30 cups.