Translation and Appreciation of Li Bai's Song of Xiangyang

Sunset can't think of Xi 'an and Shanxi, but it loves flowers.

Xiangyang children clapped their hands together and stopped the street to sing "White brass cymbals" (II).

When people asked them what they were laughing at, they laughed and killed the mountain man.

Cormorant, parrot cup ③.

36,000 days in a hundred years, 300 cups a day.

Looking at the duck's head green in Hanshui from a distance is like the beginning of grapes.

If this river turns into spring wine, it will ruin the mound.

Yu Meiren ⑤ Horse, drunk sitting on a carved saddle song "Falling Plums".

There is a pot of wine hanging by the car, and Sheng Fenglong is in charge of it.

Xianyang city, sigh yellow dog, why fall on the moon?

Don't you see that the sheep in the Jin Dynasty are stones, and they peel off the raw berries.

Tears can't be dumped for it, and the heart can't mourn for it.

You don't need to buy a cool breeze and bright moon. Yushan is not a person.

Shu Zhouyu, Li Shidang and Li Bai lived and died together.

Wang Xiang Yu Yun is here today? The river flows eastward, and apes cry at night.

(Note) ① Fairy Mountain: Shoushan Mountain in Anxian County, located in the south of Xiangyang County, Hubei Province. ② White brass cymbals (dρ): the name of nursery rhymes in the Southern Dynasties, which was popular in Xiangyang area. ③ Cormorant (lú cí sháo): a long-handled wine ladle shaped like a cormorant. Nautilus Cup: A wine glass made of a snail's shell, shaped and colored like a parrot's mouth. ④ Fermented grains (pΡ i): wine brewed without filtration. ⑤ There is a poem in Gu Yuefu called Love My Concubine as a Horse. During the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty, Cao Zhang also traded concubines for horses. Li Bai emphasized the preciousness of horses here. 6 urge: persuade wine. ⑦ (léi): wine vessel. ⑧ * * *: The stone carving on the ancient stone pedestal looks like a turtle and is named √√√ (b √√√). Pet-name ruby Jade Mountain falls by itself: Wei of the Three Kingdoms is personable, and people say that when he is drunk, he will fall like Jade Mountain.

In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725), Li Bai went east from Bashu. In fifteen years, in Anlu, Hubei Province, I married the granddaughter of Xu (left-handed during the reign of Emperor Gaozong Longshuo). Xiangyang is not far from Anlu, and this poem may have been written during this period. It is Li Bai's drunken song. In the poem, he looks at the world around him with the psychology and vision of drunkards, but in fact he looks at everything with a more poetic vision and thinks about everything.

At the beginning of this poem, I quoted the allusions of Shan Jian in Jin Dynasty. When Shan Jian was guarding Xiangyang, he liked to drink in Jia Qian Garden and often rode back drunk. At that time, the ballad said that he went home at dusk and knew nothing. I can ride a good horse backwards; . "Lu, a white hat. Li Bai said here that he came back at dusk, drunk as mud, and was stopped by children to clap his hands and sing, causing laughter all over the street.

But Li Bai didn't care, saying that it would take 100 years and 36,000 days to fill his stomach with 300 glasses of wine every day. At this time, he was drunk and looked around in a daze, far seeing the green Hanshui River outside Xiangyang, just like the wine he had just brewed in his illusion. Ah, if this Hanjiang River can be turned into spring wine, then just the song used for brewing can build a rotten mound. Drunk, the poet rode on a well-carved saddle, singing the tune of "Plum Blossom Falling", followed by a car with a hip flask, carrying a band and playing music to persuade wine. He was complacent, and suddenly felt that he could not be compared with the princes in history! Isn't Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, killed by Qin Ershi? When he died, he said to his son, "If I want to lead the yellow dog with you again, I will go out to the east gate of Shangcai (Li Si's hometown) to chase the sly rabbit. How can I get it!" There is also yang hu in the Jin Dynasty, who often visited Xianshan when guarding Xiangyang. He once said to people, "It's sad that a wise man is better than this. If there are too many people with me, they will all be forgotten. " After Hu's death, Xiangyang people set up a monument in Xianshan to commemorate it. People who see the monument often cry, which is called the "monument to tears", but what is the significance of this monument today? Now that the flat plate is peeling off, no one will cry for it! One didn't come to a good end before he died. Although someone erected a monument behind him, it was inevitable that he would gradually disappear. How can "pouring gold on the moon" be so happy and so realistic? Without spending any money, you can enjoy the cool breeze and bright moon, and fall into the romantic bright moon like Yushan after being drunk. How natural and comfortable it is!

At the end of the poem, the poet once again preaches binge drinking and pleasure, emphasizing that even King Xiang of Chu, who is noble enough to be associated with the goddess of Wushan, has already vanished, and it is more interesting to die with the gourd ladle and dang (chēng) who drank with him.

This poem is loved by people. Because the poet's lifestyle is free, but not decadent. What dominates the whole poem is self-appreciation and intoxication of one's romantic life. The poet portrayed himself as an innocent drunk with a straightforward style. The description of life scenes in the poem is very vivid and full of strong drama, reaching the level of vividness and reflecting the lively side of social life in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

On the one hand, this poem gives us a sense of spiritual relaxation and liberation from Li Bai's drunkenness, high spirits and unrestrained manner; On the other hand, through the active life scenes around Li Bai, people can be inspired to imagine that life may appear in another comedy color, thus deepening people's love for life. The whole language is bold and unrestrained, which fully shows the poetic style with personality.