Flowers in the next pot of wine, no friends, drink alone.
Raise my cup, I invite the bright moon, which brings me its shadow and makes us three people.
The moon doesn't know how to drink, but the shadow in front of it is behind.
I have to mingle with them and enjoy the happiness of spring.
The song I sing is bright and wandering, and I dance the shadow before wandering.
Wake up and be happy together, and disperse after drunkenness.
I am willing to stay with them forever and forget the harm of friendship, just like the Milky Way.
Eternal famous sentence: until, holding up my cup, I asked the moon to bring me my shadow and make the three of us
general idea
I put a pot of wine among the flowers and poured it myself. I don't have any relatives or friends around me. Raise a glass to the sky, invite the bright moon, reflect on me, and you will become three people. The moon can't appreciate the joy of drinking, and the shadow can only follow me silently. I had to stay with the bright moon for a while, and take advantage of this beautiful scenery to eat, drink and be merry. I sing poetry, the moon lingers with me, I dance, and the shadow lingers with me. I share my joy with you when I am awake, and I can't find you when I am drunk. Let's forge an eternal friendship and meet in the vast sky tomorrow.
Li Bai abandoned talent, his political ideal could not be realized, and his mood was lonely and depressed. But in the face of the dark reality, he did not sink, did not drift, but pursued freedom and yearned for the light, so he praised the sun and the moon in his poems. The sun is a bright and gorgeous image in nature, and the bright moon is a symbol of clarity and purity. Especially the bright moon, fresh, bright, quiet and gentle, so the poet is very close to it.
In this poem, the poet further introduced Mingyue as a confidant and expressed his feelings for Mingyue. Poetic, straightforward, express lonely thoughts and feelings. This kind of loneliness can't be driven away, so the poet used strange imagination and vivid description to treat the bright moon as a bosom friend and invited him to drink. At the same time, I also regard myself as a kind of sentient beings and invite them to share. There is a bright moon on the surface, and the figure follows. It seems that he is not a lone ranger, but the moon can't be drunk, and the shadow is with him, which highlights the poet's loneliness. As Sun Zhu said, "The title is a lone ranger, and the poem is biased towards three people. The moon shadow companion said that repeated exploration has become more and more unique. " ("Three Hundred Tang Poems" Volume I)
background
Because few people know each other, the poet had to accompany the moon and the shadow, sing to the moon and dance to the shadow, so as to dispel the depression in his heart. On the other hand, we should make friends with the eternal bright moon and shadow, and meet and travel in the distant blue sky in the future. This shows the poet's strong dissatisfaction with the dirty reality and his yearning for freedom and light in loneliness.
This five-character ancient poem, with novel conception, wonderful imagination and profound emotion, is a unique masterpiece in Li Bai's lyric poems.
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This poem highlights the word "independence". Li Bai is ambitious and talented, and wants to make a difference, but he can't get the appreciation and support of the rulers, and he can't find many bosom friends and friends. So he is often surrounded by loneliness and feels depressed and confused. From his poems, we can hear the cry of a lonely soul, which contains the protest against unreasonable society and the desire for freedom and liberation. That irresistible force is really enough to "shock the wind and rain" and "make the gods cry."
The first two sentences "since from a pot of wine among the flowers, I drink alone. No one is with me "highlights the word" independence ". People who love drinking generally don't like drinking alone. They want to talk to one or two confidants, have a drink and pour out what they have been suppressing for a long time. Especially when the scenery is beautiful and the flowers are blooming under the moon, I hope to have a close partner to share the beauty of the scenery and the mellow wine with me. Li Bai was in the same mood when he wrote this poem, but he had no relatives and no wine, so he had nowhere to say, so he had to "hold up my cup, and I asked the bright moon to bring me my shadow and let the three of us" and invited Yue Ming and his own figure to accompany him. These two sentences are from Tao Yuanming's Miscellaneous Poems. Shi Tao said, "There is nothing to say. Shake a glass to persuade the lonely shadow." But it was just "two people". Li Bai invited the bright moon, so it was "bring my shadow and let the three of us".
However, the moon won't drink, and the shadow will only follow itself silently. Alas, the moon can't drink water, and my shadow follows me blankly, leaving me alone. But it's good to have such two partners, "but I still have these friends for a while, let me cheer and spend the end of spring." Eat, drink and be merry with the moon shadow for the time being! Let's continue to write singing and dancing for fun: "I sang. The moon encourages me and I dance. My shadow is rolling in the back. I woke up and had sex, and then I got drunk and we lost each other. " "Wandering on the Moon" means that the moon has been moved by my singing and has been hovering around me, refusing to leave. "Shadow is messy" means that the shadow is also making all kinds of irregular dances with its body. At this time, the poet and they have reached the point of emotional blending. So I went on to say, "I woke up and had sex, and then I got drunk and we lost each other." When they are awake, they are good friends, and when they are drunk, they will inevitably be separated. But Li Bai didn't want to be separated from them. The last two sentences say, "Is goodwill always safe? I see the long road of the Milky Way. " "Ruthlessness" means not being contaminated with the secular, and "heartless journey" means making friends outside the general secular relationship. Li Bai believes that this kind of unprofitable communication is the purest and most sincere. He couldn't find this kind of friendship on earth, so he had to meet the moon shadow, hoping to take a trip with them forever and meet them in the high sky. "Han Yun" is the Milky Way, which generally refers to a paradise far away from the world. Although these two poems express the thought of being born, Li Bai's thought is not completely negative. As far as his disgust and denial of vulgar relations between people in society are concerned, it should be said that it is of profound positive significance.
Although this poem says "bring my shadow and let the three of us", it mainly explains the moon. Li Bai likes the bright moon since he was a child. "Gulang Moon Journey" said: "When I was a child, I didn't know the moon, so I called it Baiyupan. I also suspect that Yao Taijing is flying on the other side of Qingyun Mountain. " In the eyes of young Li Bai, the bright moon is already a symbol of light. He often pinned his ideals on the bright moon and eagerly pursued her. At the beginning of "Quench thirst by drinking poison", I said, "When will the moon in the blue sky come? I'll stop for a drink and ask. People can't go to the moon, and the moon walks with people. " The poem "Farewell Secretary of Xie Tiao Village in Xuanzhou" also said: "We are both far-sighted and want to go to the sky to embrace the bright moon." He wants to climb the moon and embrace it, which shows his yearning for a better future. It is precisely because he hates the darkness and filth of society and pursues brightness and purity that he places such deep feelings on the bright moon. Even his death is legendary, saying that he died after drinking wine and catching the moon in the water. The bright moon often reminds Li Bai of his hometown. When he was in Sichuan in his youth, he visited Emei Mountain, and Emei Mountain left a deep impression on him. He wrote a song "Emei Mountain Moon Song", which said that "Emei Mountain falls in the autumn in half a month and falls into the Pingqiang River", which is well-known. In his later years, he wrote a song "The Moon Song of Emei Mountain" in Wuchang, which was written to send a Sichuan monk to Chang 'an. The poem said that when he saw the bright moon in the Three Gorges and thought of Emei, Wan Li accompanied him to the Yellow Crane Tower. Now that I meet you, a guest from Emei, Emei Mountain will definitely send you to Chang 'an. Finally, he hoped that the monk Shu would "make a name for himself in the Imperial Capital and return to be the Emei Moon". The bright moon aroused Li Bai's homesickness, so in the famous poem "Thinking of a Quiet Night", he would say, "Looking up, I found it was moonlight, and then sinking, I suddenly remembered home". When he saw the bright moon, he thought of Emei and his hometown of Sichuan. Yue Ming is another close friend of Li Bai. "Dream on Mount Tianmu" says: "My heart and dream are in Wu and Yue, flying over Jinghu overnight. The moon shines on my shadow, and I shine on Yanhe. " In another poem entitled "Walking down the Mount Zhongnan to Good Pillows and Bowls in Hu Si", he said: "Walking down the Blue Mountain at night, moonlight is my escort home." It's like watching the moon with a child's innocence. More interestingly, when he heard that Wang Changling had moved to the left Dragon Label, he wrote a poem for Wang Changling. The poem says: "I am worried about the bright moon and will follow you to Yelangxi." In Li Bai's imagination, Yue Ming could follow Wang Changling to distant places with his sadness.
When we know that the bright moon is so important to Li Bai, it is easy for us to understand why Li Bai pinned such a deep friendship on the bright moon in the poem "Drinking Alone with the Moon". "Until, holding up my cup, I asked the bright moon, give me my shadow, let the three of us" and "Goodwill always be safe? I see the long road of the Milky Way. Being with Li Bai since childhood symbolizes brightness and purity, which often makes Li Bai miss the moonlight in his hometown and is worthy of his love for her. Li Bai, a great poet who is aloof and naive, also deserves to be Yue Ming's friend.