A suggestion to Liu, a friend in Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi?
There is a glimmer of green in the old bottle and a hint of red in the quiet stove.
With dusk and snow coming, how about a glass of wine?
Precautions:
Liu Shijiu: His cousin, a wealthy businessman in Luoyang, often associates with Bai Juyi.
Green ant refers to the green foam floating on the newly brewed unfiltered rice wine. Fermented grains (pēi): brewing.
There is a ray of green in the old bottle: the wine is newly brewed. When the new wine is not filtered, there is wine residue floating on the wine surface, which is slightly green and as fine as ants, and is called "green ants".
Xue: It's snowing. It is used as a verb here.
Nothing: a modal particle expressing doubt, which is equivalent to "Yao" or "Mo".
Explanation:
Made light green rice wine and burned a small stove. It's getting late and it's snowing harder and harder. Can I have a cup of hot wine in my humble abode?
About the author:
Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846), a native of Xinzheng, Henan Province (now xinzheng city, Zhengzhou, Henan Province), was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty.
Extended data:
Everyone in the article is good at writing delicate emotions and stories in the simplest and plain language. Now we look at the articles of modern and contemporary writers such as Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi and admire their delicacy. In fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi was already such a language master. Bai Juyi's language form is poetry, which lacks some literal connotation for readers, but only in this way can readers have greater extension and more imagination space.
The wine at home is newly brewed and has not been carefully filtered, so there is wine residue foam on the wine surface. This is a typical "home brew", which is sweet and delicious, and can only be enjoyed with very close friends.
The homemade stove is simple and warm, and the fire is red. It is getting late, but it wants to snow. In such a cold and snowy winter, in such a quiet moment of dusk, I invited my old friends to drink and catch up, but the poet was not nervous. He just asked gently, "Friend, can you come for a drink?"
The snowy night in winter is filled with a warm atmosphere. The beauty lies in the discussion of the sentence "How about a glass of wine inside". It is warm and cold, close to the heart and lungs, and full of true feelings. A poem ending in such a spoken language is meaningful and long, full of ethereal beauty and warm and strong feelings. Whether the friend finally came, how much wine he drank and how late he drank ... everything is left to the reader to imagine.
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