The meaning of the poem is: carry a jug of wine among the flowers, drink alone without friends or relatives. I raised my glass to invite the moon, and became a trio to the shadows.
Source: Four Songs of Drinking Alone Under the Moon - One of them - Tang - Li Bai
A jug of wine is set among the flowers, drinking alone without friends or relatives. Raise your glass to invite the moon, and you will be alone in the shadow.
The moon does not know how to drink, and the shadow follows me. I'm not going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it.
I'm singing to the moon, I'm dancing to the shadows. I am a man of the world, a man of the world, a man of the world, a man of the world, a man of the world, a man of the world.
This is the first time I've ever been to the moon, and I'm sure we'll meet again soon.
Translating, I brought a jug of wine and placed it among the flowers, pouring it to myself without friends or relatives. Lift the cup to invite the bright moon, to the figure to become three people. The bright moon, of course, will not drink, and the figure just along with me body. I had to temporarily form a drinking companion with them, to line music must be the wonderful springtime to catch. I sang and the moon wandered, I danced and the shadows were scattered. When I woke up, we were happy together; when we were drunk, we were scattered. I would like to make a friendship with them forever to forget the hurt, and meet by the misty Milky Way.
Expanded Information
1. Background of the Four Songs of Drinking Alone Under the Moon
This poem was written in the third year of Tianbao of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (744), when Li Bai was in Chang'an at a time when he was disillusioned with his official position. Under the title of this poem, the two Song texts and the Miu text are all annotated with the word "Chang'an", meaning that these four poems were written in Chang'an. At that time, Li Bai's political ideals could not be realized, the mood is lonely and bitter. But in the face of the dark reality, he did not sink, did not join in the dirt, but the pursuit of freedom, yearning for light, because of this work.
2, "four songs under the moon drinking alone - one" appreciation
This is a carefully cut out of the scene, written to be so natural. Li Bai was drinking alone under the moon, facing the bright moon and shadows, and seemed to form a picture of three people **** drinking in his illusion. On this warm spring night, Li Bai sings and dances while drinking, and the moon and the shadow follow the ups and downs of his feelings, as if they are also sharing the joys and sorrows of his drinking. Logically speaking, objects do not have much to do with a person's inner world.
From a poetic point of view, however, the two are inextricably linked. This is the origin of "Xing" in Chinese poetry. Li Bai's poem is a response to this "Xing" style of writing, giving the bright moon and the shadow with emotion. As Lin Yutang said, "It is a poetic belief in harmony with nature, which makes life fluctuate with the fluctuations of human emotions."
But at the end of the poem, Li Bai reveals a complex sentiment of being alone but not alone, not alone but alone again, and he learns that the moon and shadow are inherently emotionless, but only his own amorous feelings. In the face of this merciless thing, Li Bai still want to forever knot merciless tour, meaning that when drinking alone under the moon, or the moon and shadow to invite to accompany the song and dance, even if it is "far away in the clouds", also in the. It can be seen that the loneliness of Taibai's sentiments have reached such a point!
Li Bai is precisely with this "shadow into three people" of "drinking alone under the moon", only let people understand and appreciate his uniqueness. Any Chinese man, woman or child, as long as he raises his glass to drink, will chant "Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, to the shadow into three people", to show his taste for the so-called elegance and solo drinking. The uniqueness of this poem has long been translated into the collective unconscious of the nation.