Drinking Alone Under the Moon (one of four poems)

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Author: Li Bai (Tang Dynasty, 701-762)

A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date.

Toast your glass to the bright moon, and look at each other as three people①.

The moon does not know how to drink, and its shadow follows me.

The moon will be shadowed for a while, ③, and the fun must be in spring ④.

My singing moon wanders ⑤, my dancing shadows are messy.

They make love together when they are awake, but they disperse when they are drunk.

We will always be together without mercy ⑥, and we will meet Miao Yunhan ⑦.

Notes

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1. Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems": "If you want to speak with no words, wave your cup to persuade the lonely shadow."

2. Zhuo: drink.

3. Three people: refers to the moon, the author and his figure.

4. Solution: Understand.

5. General: together, with.

6. Carpe diem: It means taking advantage of the good times of spring to have fun in time.

7. The moon lingers: The moon lingers because of my song.

8. Ruthless Travel: "Zhuangzi·De Chongfu": "Huizi said to Zhuangzi: 'Is it true that people are heartless?' Zhuangzi said: 'Yes.' Huizi said: 'How can we say that people are heartless? "Human?" Zhuangzi said: "The Tao is like the appearance, and the heaven is like the shape. How can we call it human?" Huizi said: "If we call it human, how can we be ruthless?" Zhuangzi said: "This is not what I call emotion." The so-called ruthless person means that people do not harm their bodies internally because of their likes and dislikes, and they often do not benefit their lives.'" Zhu Jian's note: "Though the moon and I are called three people, the moon and the shadow are ruthless."

9. Date: meet. Miao: Gaoyuan. Yunhan: Galaxy.

10. My song: The moon seems to be lingering because of my song.

11. Yunhan: Milky Way. This refers to the fairyland in heaven.

The main idea of ??the poem

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Li Bai is drinking alone under the moon. Prepare a pot of fine wine and place it among the flowers. Drink it by yourself without any relatives or friends. Friend, alone. I raised my wine glass to invite the charming Mingyue, lowered my head and caught a glimpse of the figure. There were already three people drinking. Yue'er, how do you know the joy of drinking? Ying'er, you cling to me alone in vain! For the time being, I will accompany the Jade Rabbit, this ruthless thin figure. I should enjoy myself in time and take advantage of the good spring evening. The moon lingers in the sky while listening to me reciting poems, while the shadow follows me dancing my sword, jumping and rolling on the ground. When we are sober, we can have fun and have fun, but when we are drunk, we will inevitably be separated. Moon, I would like to become a loveless friend with you forever, and meet on the far bank of the Milky Way. Goodbye!

Original text "Drinking Alone under the Moon"

A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date.

Toast a glass to the bright moon, and look at each other as three people①.

The moon does not know how to drink, and its shadow follows me.

The moon will be shadowed for a while, ③, and the fun must be in spring ④.

My singing moon wanders ⑤, my dancing shadows are messy.

They make love together when they are awake, but they disperse when they are drunk.

We will always be together without mercy ⑥, and we will meet Miao Yunhan ⑦.

Notes

1. Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems": "If you want to say nothing, wave your cup to persuade Gu Ying."

2. Drink: drink.

3. Three people: refers to the moon, the author and his figure.

4. Solution: Understand.

5. General: together, with.

6. Carpe diem: It means taking advantage of the good times of spring to have fun in time.

7. The moon lingers: The moon lingers because of my song.

8. Ruthless Travel: "Zhuangzi? Virtue Chongfu": "Huizi said to Zhuangzi: 'Is it true that people are merciless?' Zhuangzi said: 'Yes.' Huizi said: 'How can we say that people are merciless? "Human?" Zhuangzi said: "The Tao is like the appearance, and the heaven is like the shape. How can we call it human?" Huizi said: "If we call it human, how can we be ruthless?" Zhuangzi said: "This is not what I call emotion." The so-called ruthless person means that people do not harm their bodies internally because of their likes and dislikes, and they often do not benefit their lives.'" Zhu Jian's note: "Though the moon and I are called three people, the moon and the shadow are ruthless."

9. Date: meet. Miao: Gaoyuan. Yunhan: Galaxy.

10. My song: The moon seems to be lingering because of my song.

11. Yunhan: Milky Way. This refers to the fairyland in heaven.

The main idea of ??the poem

Drinking alone under the moon Li Bai prepared a pot of fine wine and placed it among the flowers, drinking it by himself. He was alone without relatives or friends. I raised my wine glass to invite the charming Mingyue, lowered my head and caught a glimpse of the figure. There were already three people drinking. Yue'er, how do you know the joy of drinking? Ying'er, you cling to me alone in vain! For the time being, I will accompany the Jade Rabbit, this ruthless thin figure. I should enjoy myself in time and take advantage of the good spring evening. The moon listens to me reciting poems and lingers in the nine heavens. The shadow follows me dancing with my sword, jumping and rolling on the ground. When we are sober, we can have fun and have fun, but when we are drunk, we will inevitably be separated. Moon, I would like to become a loveless friend with you forever, and meet on the far bank of the Milky Way. Goodbye!

Poetry Appreciation

This poem was written about the third year of Tianbao (744), when Li Bai was in Chang'an. The poet writes about drinking alone among flowers and under the moonlight. The sentence "Three people are facing each other" is wonderfully conceived, expressing his lonely and bold feelings. "Li's Poems Direct Interpretation": "I drink alone against the moon, letting my mind wander and enjoying myself."

"Fu Gengsheng's "Chinese Literature Appreciation Examples": "There is wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any relatives; although there are no relatives, the moon and the shadow are invited, but they are like three people; although they are like three people, the moon does not drink, and the shadow follows with it; although it is not Drinking, chatting can be a companion. Even if you are alone, you can still be a companion. Carpe diem, what’s spring like? The moon lingers, like listening to a song; the shadows are scattered, like dancing with it. Although they rejoice together when they are awake, they disperse when they are drunk; when they gather together, they seem to be heartless, but their love is deep and will last forever; when Yun and Han met each other, they drank together and drank alone. This poem turns one step at a time, and the more it turns, the more strange it becomes. Although strange, it does not deviate from its origin. Qinglian is a prodigy, so he can listen, but he may not be able to listen through hard work. "

[Explanation]

There are four original poems, and this is the first one. The poem describes the desolate scene of the poet drinking alone under the flowers on a moonlit night, with no one close to him. The poet Using rich imagination, he expresses a complex feeling from being lonely to not being lonely, and then from not being lonely to being lonely again. His mind. The first four lines of the poem are about flowers, wine, people, and moon shadows. The purpose of the poem is to express loneliness, but when you raise a glass to invite the moon, the moon, shadows, and people appear in the illusion; Walking alone, I am still lonely. Therefore, from the fifth to the eighth sentence, the discussion is made from the shadow of the moon, and the last six sentences are the third paragraph, describing the poet's persistence with the moonlight and figure. The whole poem expresses the loneliness and arrogance of the poet who has no talent, as well as his bohemian and unruly character. The poem invites the moon to face the shadow, and the eternal quatrains are viewed from the front. It seems that I can really enjoy myself, but looking at it from the back, it is extremely desolate.

Appreciation 1

In Buddhism, there is a saying of "establishing a righteousness", then "breaking the same righteousness", and then "breaking" it. Then "establish", "establish" and then "break", and finally get the ultimate analysis method. In modern terms, it means to first explain some truth, then establish a new theory after refuting it, and then refute it again, and finally get the correct theory. Conclusion. Regarding such arguments, there are usually two sides, "breaking" and "building" each other. However, in Li Bai's poem, only one person stands on his own, breaks and stands on his own in the form of a monologue, and the poetry has ups and downs. It is a pure sound of nature, so it has been recited by future generations.

When the poet comes on stage, the background is a flower room, the prop is a bottle of wine, the character on the stage is just himself, and the action is to drink alone, with the words "nothing". With the words "blind date", the scene was very monotonous. So the poet suddenly had a whim, pulled the bright moon in the sky and his own shadow under the moonlight, and turned himself into three people, toasting and drinking. The deserted scene became lively. This is "Li".

However, even though the poet is so kind and "raises a glass to invite the bright moon", the bright moon "doesn't know how to drink" after all. ? Although as Tao Qian said, "When you meet your son, you will feel sad and joyful. If you stay in the shade for a while, you will never see each other again" ("Shadow Answering the Shape"), but after all, the shadow cannot drink; so what should we do? ? Let’s take the bright moon and the figure as our companions for now, and have fun in this time of spring (the word “spring” refers to the word “flower” above). " (Tao Qian's preface to the poem "Tao Qian Drinks") These four sentences describe the love between the moon and the shadow as futile and unpredictable, overturning the previous case. This is "breaking".

At that time, the poet had already entered I was drunk and drunk, and I sang and danced. When I sang, the moonlight lingered, as if I was listening to the good news; when I danced, my own figure turned around in the moonlight, as if I was dancing with myself. We rejoice with each other when we are awake, until we are drunk and lying on the bed, the moonlight and the figures are helplessly separated. "I sing to the moon, and my dancing shadows are scattered. We make love together when we are awake, but we are separated when we are drunk." These four sentences are again. He writes about the moonlight and the figure as if he is passionate about himself.

In the last two sentences, the poet sincerely makes an appointment with the "moon" and "shadow": "We will travel together forever." Miao Yunhan. "However, "moon" and "shadow" are still ruthless things after all. The main reason for forming a friendship between ruthless things is one's own sentimentality. The "merciless" in the sentence "everlasting knot ruthless wandering" is broken, and "everlasting knot" It is connected with "you", broken and established, which constitutes the final conclusion.

The title is "Drinking Alone under the Moon". The poet uses rich imagination to show a feeling of being independent but not independent, and not being independent yet. And being alone is a complex emotion of being alone but not alone. On the surface, the poet can really enjoy himself, but on the other hand, there is infinite desolation. The poet once wrote a poem called "Spring Drunkenness": "Living in the world is like a big dream. Why do you work hard for a living? So I was drunk all day long, lying slumped in front of the couplet. When I wake up and look forward to the front of the court, a bird sings among the flowers. May I ask when this happened, the spring breeze is whispering orioles. Feeling the urge to sigh, I still pour myself into the wine. Waiting for the bright moon with great songs, I have forgotten my love after all the songs. "Looking at the words "a bird", "self-leaning", "waiting for the bright moon" and other words, we can see how lonely the poet is. Loneliness is not even as lonely as inviting the moon and the shadow, and even in the years to come, he can't even hope to find ** Those who drink, can only travel with the moonlight figure forever, and meet again in the distant fairyland. The last two sentences highlight the poet's sense of coolness. (Shen Xiqian)

This poem highlights the word "independence". Li Bai is ambitious and talented, and wants to do something in his career, but he can neither get the appreciation nor support of the ruler, nor can he find it. He has many close friends and friends. Therefore, he is often surrounded by loneliness, feeling depressed and hesitant. From his poems, we can hear the cry of a lonely soul, which contains the cry of that unreasonable society. Protests are also accompanied by a desire for freedom and liberation. The unstoppable force is really enough to "shudder" and "weep ghosts and gods".

In the first two sentences, "A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without any blind date", the word "alone" has been highlighted. People who like to drink generally don't like to drink alone. They are willing to chat and drink with one or two close friends and talk out what they have been holding in their hearts for a long time. Especially when the scenery is beautiful and the moon is shining among the flowers, I hope to have a close partner to share the beauty of the scenery and the mellow taste of the wine with me. Li Bai was in this mood when he wrote this poem, but he had no friends and had nothing to say, so he had to "raise a glass to the bright moon and make three people with their shadows", inviting the bright moon and his own figure to write the poem. With you. These two sentences are derived from Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems". Tao's poem said: "If you want to say nothing, I wave a cup to persuade Gu Ying." However, it was only "two people". Li Bai invited an extra Mingyue, so it is "There are three people facing each other".

However, Mingyue will not drink, and his shadow will only follow him silently. "The moon doesn't know how to drink, and the shadow follows me." As a result, I can only drink alone. But it is good to have two partners like this. "For the time being, the moon is about to shadow, and you have to have fun until spring." For now, let's have fun in time with the moon and the shadow! The following goes on to describe the situation of singing and dancing: "I sing to the moon, and my dancing shadows are scattered. We make love together when we are awake, and we are separated when we are drunk." "The moon lingers" means that the moon is moved by my singing and always lingers around me. Reluctant to leave. "Shadows are chaotic" means that the shadows are also making various irregular dance moves with their own bodies. At this time, the poet and them have reached the point of emotional integration. So it goes on to say: "We have sex together when we are awake, but we are separated when we are drunk." The three of them became good friends while they were awake, but they inevitably separated when they were drunk. But Li Bai was not willing to be separated from them. The last two sentences said: "We will never be together without love, and we will meet again in Yunhan." "Qingwu" means not to be contaminated by worldly sentiments, and "Qingwu" is a friendship that goes beyond ordinary worldly relationships. Li Bai believes that this kind of communication that is free from interests is the purest and most sincere. He couldn't find this kind of friendship in the world, so he had to make an appointment with the moon and shadow, hoping to form a loveless relationship with them forever and meet them high in the sky. "Yunhan" refers to the Milky Way, which generally refers to the heaven far away from the earthly world. Although these two poems express the thought of transcending the world, Li Bai's thought is not entirely negative. In terms of his disgust and denial of the vulgar relationships between people in society, it should be said to have profound positive significance. of.

Although this poem says "the shadows form three persons", it mainly expresses its affection for the bright moon. Li Bai has been fond of the bright moon since he was a child. "Gu Lang Yue Xing" said: "When I was young, I didn't know the moon, and I called it a white jade plate. I also doubted the moonlight flying in the blue clouds." In the young Li Bai's mind, the bright moon was already bright and clear. symbol. He often uses the bright moon to express his ideals and pursues her eagerly. "Walking with Wine and Asking the Moon" begins with: "When will the moon come in the blue sky? I will stop drinking and ask it today. People cannot reach the bright moon, but the moon travels with people." In "Xuanzhou Xie Tiao Tower Farewell Booklet" The poem "Shu Yun" also says: "We are all full of joy and hope, and want to go up to the blue sky to embrace the bright moon." He wants to climb the bright moon and embrace the bright moon, which all express his yearning for light. It is precisely because he hates the darkness and filth of society and pursues light and purity that he has such deep feelings for Mingyue. Even his death has a legend, saying that he died after being drunk and drowning in the water to catch the moon. The bright moon often reminds Li Bai of his hometown. In his youth, he visited Mount Emei in Sichuan, and the moon on Mount Emei left a deep impression on him. He wrote a song "Moon Song of Mount Emei", which said, "Mount Emei has a half-moon, its shadow is reflected in the water of Pingqiang River", which is very popular. In his later years, he wrote another "Moon Song of Mount Emei" in Wuchang, which was written to see off a Sichuan monk who went to Chang'an. The poem says that when he saw the bright moon in the Three Gorges, he thought of Emei. The Emei Mountain moon followed him thousands of miles away and accompanied him to the Yellow Crane Tower. Now that he meets you, a guest from Emei, the Emei Mountain moon will definitely take you to Chang'an. ; In the end, he hoped that this Shu monk would "become famous all over the imperial capital, and even hold the Emei Moon when he returns." The bright moon aroused Li Bai's nostalgia so much that in the famous song "Silent Night Thoughts", he said, "Look up at the bright moon and lower your head to think about your hometown." When he sees the bright moon, he thinks of Emei and his hometown of Sichuan. Mingyue is another close friend of Li Bai. "Sleepwalking Tianmu Yin Farewell" says: "I want to dream of Wu and Yue, and fly to the mirror lake and the moon all night. The lake moon shines on my shadow and sends me to Shanxi." In another poem titled "Going down Zhongnan Mountain and crossing Dendrobium" In the poem "Mountain Man Stays and Buys Wine", he also said: "Evening passes under the green mountain, and the mountain moon returns with people." It is almost as if he is looking at the moon with the innocence of a child. What's more interesting is that when he heard the news that Wang Changling moved to Longbiao, he wrote a poem and sent it to Wang Changling. The poem said: "I send my sorrowful heart and the bright moon, and follow you to the west of Yelang." In Li Bai's imagination, , Mingyue can follow Wang Changling to a remote place with his worries.

When we know that the bright moon means so much to Li Bai, it is easy to understand why Li Bai has such a deep friendship for the bright moon in the poem "Drinking Alone under the Moon". "Raise a cup to invite the bright moon, and make three people by looking at each other's shadows." "We will never travel without love, and we will meet each other forever." The moon that Li Bai has been partnering with since he was a child symbolizes light and purity, and often makes Li Bai miss the moon in his hometown. , is worthy of Li Bai's deep love for her. Li Bai, the great poet who is aloof, arrogant and naive, is fully worthy of being Mingyue's friend.

Appreciation 3

The poem describes the scene of drinking alone under the moon. Drinking alone under the moon is lonely, but the poet used his rich imagination to combine the moon and his own figure into the so-called "three people".

From the word "flower" to the word "spring", from "drinking" to "song" and "dance", the lonely environment is rendered very lively. Not only is the pen and ink vivid, but more importantly, it expresses the poet's ability to relieve loneliness. Unrestrained personality and emotions.

On the surface, the poet seems to be really enjoying himself, but behind it is full of infinite desolation. The poet is so lonely that he invites the moon and shadows, but it is more than that. Even in the years to come, he will not be able to find anyone to drink with him. Therefore, I can only travel with the moonlight figure forever, and make an appointment to meet again in the fairyland in the sky.

Attachment: Introduction to the author

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Li Bai (701-762), birthday February 8, 701, Han nationality, courtesy name Taibai , named Qinglian Jushi, was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the history of our country, he was called the Immortal of Poetry. His poetic style is bold and elegant, his imagination is rich, his language flows naturally, and his music is harmonious and changeable. He is good at absorbing nutritional materials from folk songs and myths to form his unique magnificent and gorgeous colors. He is a new peak of positive romantic poetry since Qu Yuan. Together with Du Fu, he is called "Li Du" and is the greatest poet in Chinese history.

Li Bai's ancestral home was in Chengji, Longxi (now Qin'an County, Gansu Province). At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he migrated to Suiye City in Central Asia (near today's Tokmak, northern Kyrgyzstan), where Li Bai was born. When he was five years old, his family moved to Mianzhou Mingming County (now Jiangyou County, Sichuan). At the age of twenty, he left Sichuan alone and began to roam extensively, reaching Dongting and Xiangjiang River in the south, Wu and Yue in the east, and settled in Anlu (today's Anlu County, Hubei Province). He traveled around, hoping to make friends and meet celebrities, so that he could be recommended and climb to a high position to realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, nothing was achieved. He continued to travel north to Taiyuan and Chang'an, to the east to Qi and Lu, and settled in Rencheng, Shandong (now Jining, Shandong). At this time, he had made friends with many celebrities, composed a large number of excellent poems, and his poems were famous all over the world. In the early years of Tianbao, he was recommended by the Taoist Wu Renjun. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty summoned him to Beijing and ordered him to serve the Imperial Academy. Soon, due to the slander of the powerful, he was squeezed out of Beijing in the third or fourth year of Tianbao (744 or 745 AD). After that, he wandered around the Jiang and Huai areas, feeling extremely depressed.

In the winter of the fourteenth year of Tianbao (AD 755), Anlu Mountain rebelled. At this time, he was living in seclusion in Lushan Mountain. When Yong Wang Li Lin's army marched eastward, he invited Li Bai to come down the mountain and join the shogunate. Later, Li Lin rebelled against Su Zong and was eliminated. Li Bai was implicated and was sentenced to exile in Yelang (today's Guizhou Province). He was pardoned and released on the way, and traveled between Xunyang (today's Jiujiang, Jiangxi) and Xuancheng (today's Xuancheng, Anhui). Waiting places. In the first year of Baoying's reign (762 AD), Dai Zong died of illness in Dangtu County, Anhui.

Li Bai lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. He had the progressive ideal of "helping the common people" and "anli Yuan", and worked hard to realize this ideal throughout his life. His large number of poems not only reflected the prosperity of that era, but also exposed and criticized the dissoluteness and corruption of the ruling group, showing his positive spirit of contempt for the powerful, resisting the constraints of tradition, and pursuing freedom and ideals. In terms of art, his poems have novel imagination, strong emotions, magnificent artistic conception, and fresh and bright language. They form a bold and ultra-forward artistic style and reach the peak of positive romantic poetry art in ancient my country. There are more than 900 poems in existence, including "The Complete Works of Li Taibai".

His poems are rich in imagination, strange in conception, powerful and magnificent in style, and he is a representative figure of romantic poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.