Green ant new wine, red clay small stove.
Late to the day to snow, can drink a cup of nothing!
Rhyme translation: newly brewed rice wine, green and fragrant; small red clay stove, burned red. It's getting dark and the snow is coming. Can I have a drink? Friend!
Paraphrasing: My family's newly brewed rice wine has not yet been filtered, and the wine surface is covered with a layer of green bubbles, and the aroma is fragrant. A small stove for scalding wine made of red clay is also ready. It's overcast, it looks like it's going to snow at night, can you stay and have a drink with me?
Note: Liu Nineteen: Among the poems left by Bai Juyi, there are not many mentions of Liu Nineteen, only two. But when it comes to Liu Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Eight Ambassadors, there are many. Liu Twenty-Eight is Liu Yuxi. Liu Nineteen was his cousin Liu Yutong, a wealthy merchant in Luoyang, who often socialized with Bai Juyi. Green ant: Refers to the green foam floating on newly brewed unfiltered rice wine. Pēi: Brewed. Green Ant New Wine: Wine is a newly brewed wine. When the new wine is not filtered, the wine surface floats up the wine residue, the color is slightly green, as thin as an ant, called "green ants". Snow: Snow, used here as a verb. None: A mood word that expresses doubt, equivalent to "why" or "why".
Background: "Ask Liu Nineteen" was written by Bai Juyi when he lived in seclusion in Luoyang in his later years, "wanting snow every night and missing the old people". It is also believed that the poem was written in 817 (Yuan and 12), but the poet was then Sima of Jiangzhou (江州, in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and it is impossible to invite Luoyang to drink.
Appreciation: Liu Nineteen was a friend of the author when he was in Jiangzhou, and the author also has a poem "Liu Nineteen With The Residence", saying that he is a Songyang virgin. The whole poem has few crosses, no far-reaching sustenance, no flowery words, but the words are filled with warm and cheerful tones and warm and fiery friendship, showing a warm and spring-like poetry.
The ingenuity of the verses is, first of all, the careful selection and ingenious arrangement of the imagery. The full poetic expression is mainly accomplished by the combination of three images (new wine, stove, and twilight snow). "Green ant new wine", straight to the point out of the new wine, because the wine is newly brewed, unfiltered, the wine surface is covered with wine residue foam, the color is slightly green, small as an ant, so it is called "green ant". The first sentence of the poem depicts the newly cooked pale green and turbid rough of the house wine, which is very easy to arouse the reader's association, so that the reader seems to have seen the aromatic, sweet and delicious rice wine. The second sentence" "small red clay stove", the rough and small stove is simple and warm, the fire is burning red, the poet sits around the stove, and the roaring light illuminates the house where twilight falls, illuminating the house wine floating with green foam. The "red clay stove" plays a role in rendering colors and setting off the atmosphere in the drinking environment. The wine is already tempting, and the fire adds a warm mood. The first and second sentences of the poem use two extremely generative and suggestive images of "house wine" and "small stove", which are easy to evoke the reader's contextual association with the simple and authentic rural life. The next two sentences: "Late to the day want snow, can you drink a cup of nothing?" "In such a cold and snowy winter, in such a twilight idle moment, inviting old friends to drink and reminisce about the past reflects the poet's strong friendship." The arrangement of the image of "snow" outlines the broad background of friends gathering to drink, the cold wind, the snow fluttering, making people feel the cold of the skin, the more so, the more it can reflect the heat of the stove and the preciousness of friendship. The three images of "house wine", "small stove" and "twilight snow" are separated, and when viewed in isolation, they are simply tasteless and charming, but when these three images are incorporated by Bai Juyi into the overall organizational structure of this poetic situation, the reader will feel a kind of rhyme, realm and sentiment that does not belong to a single image but is determined by the overall organization. Cold winter moon, twilight, wind and snow masterpiece, the house wine is newly cooked, the fire has been born, just waiting for friends to arrive early, the three images are connected to form a picture of sound and color, tangible and intentional, which overflows with the harmony and warmth of friendship and the fragrance of human nature.
The second is the reasonable collocation of colors. Although poets cannot reproduce colors intuitively like sculptors and painters, they can use creative language to evoke corresponding associations and emotional experiences of readers. This small poem is very distinctive in the configuration of colors, fresh and simple, warm and bright, giving the reader a sense of immersion and pleasantness. The first sentence of the poem", "Green Ant", is painted in the shape of wine, the wine color is fragrant, which makes people marvel at the beauty, and the wine state is vivid and makes the reader's heart "eye". The word "red" in the second sentence is like a fire in winter, warming people's bodies and warming people's hearts. The word "fire" shows the situation of the charcoal fire, the light and shadow jumping, and it can add unlimited heat to people in the cold winter. "Red" and "green" reflect each other, color and flavor, warm atmosphere, cheerful mood. In the third sentence, there is no need to use color words, but the words "late" and "snow" tell the reader that the black night has fallen, and the snow is coming. Against the boundless background of the wind and snow and dark night, the "green" wine and "red" stove in the cottage is harmoniously configured, which is extremely eye-catching and extra warm.
Finally, there is the use of the closing question. "Can drink a cup of nothing", whispering softly, asking cold and warm, close to the heart, overflowing with true feelings. Ending the poem with such a colloquial language not only increases the charm of the whole poem, making it have the beauty of ethereal swaying and the wonder of the aftersound; it also creates a situation, leaving the reader with endless imagination space. The poet may have deliberately prepared a newly cooked homebrew to entertain his friends, or he may have occasionally used it to drive away the cold and desolate desolation of solitude; he may have remembered the warmth of his friends on a snowy night, or he may have been a frequent exchange between friends on weekdays. And these are left to the reader to imagine to the fullest.
Through the whole poem, the language is shallow and deep, and the words are short and long. Bai Juyi is good at discovering poetry in life, refining the poetry in life with his heart, and using poetry to reflect the spring light in human nature, which is exactly where this poem makes readers emotional.
"Ask Liu Nineteen". At the same time as the poem is drunk from the point of view, it is rendered layer by layer, but it is not because of the rendering, it no longer leaves an aftertaste, on the contrary, it is still very rich. After reading the last sentence "Can drink a cup of nothing", it is conceivable that Liu Nineteen will immediately order him to go after receiving Bai Juyi's poem. So, the two friends gathered around the stove and "forgot to erru" to pour the newly brewed wine. Maybe it's snowing outside, but it's so warm and bright inside. Life in this moment glowed rose, emitting a sweet and harmonious melody... These are the associations that poetry naturally leaves to people. Because it is both rendered and concise, it is not only seductive, but also intriguing. It is not a thin wine that makes people slightly drunk, but a mellow mash that can make people really intoxicated physically and mentally. The poem contains the breath of life, without any carving, and it is easy to come by hand, and it becomes a wonderful chapter.
The work is full of the mood of life, and the shallow language writes about the beauty of daily life and sincere friendship.