Reading Li Shangyin's poems, there is always a kind of poignant and hazy beauty, and his poems seem to use blood and tears to compose poignant poems that have been passed down through the ages.
I like Li Shangyin's "Drunk under the Flowers", just 28 words, but let us feel a sense of ethereality, its poem:
Xun Fang did not feel drunk, leaning on the tree to sleep on the day has been tilted.
After the guests wake up late at night, they even hold red candles to admire the residual flowers.
In spring, it is best to enjoy the flowers. You can imagine how pleasant it is to carry a pot of wine, indulge in the sea of flowers, fall asleep under the painting, and quietly feel the flowers blossoming and falling, and the clouds are soothing.
After waking up from the wine, Fang knew that it was late at night, but the interest in appreciating the flowers did not diminish at all, so the poet lit a candle and looked for the fragrance alone, but unfortunately, most of the flowers had withered, and the poet had to admire the residual flowers lonely against the background of the red candle.
When you think about it, many of the good things are fleeting, and it is precisely because they are short that they feel precious. At that time, Su Dongpo may have read Li Shangyin's "Drunk under the Flowers" before he wrote the classic famous sentence "Only afraid of sleeping in the middle of the night, so burn high candles to illuminate red makeup".
At this time, Li Shangyin, under the influence of flowers and wine, was drunk in this world and drunk on smoke. In his writing, there is joy and warmth, but it is always difficult to escape loneliness and sorrow between the lines.
The sentence "More holding a red candle to appreciate the residual flowers" is derived from a poem in the "Nineteen Ancient Poems", "Less than one hundred in the year of birth", which has clouds: "The day is short and the night is long, why not swim with candles!" For the sake of le dang, why stay in Laiz? However, this poem leaves away loneliness and melancholy, leaving only open-mindedness and optimism.
Life is short, less than a hundred years, instead of struggling and tangling, it is better to swim at night with candles, cherish every minute and second in life, and appreciate the infinite beauty that nature brings us. Spring has a hundred flowers, autumn has a moon, summer has a cool breeze and winter has snow, the four seasons have never failed us, but we often miss the beauty of the four seasons.
Candle night tour, it seems to be the fun of literati and scholars, but ordinary people can also follow suit, we do not have to be candle night tour, but "living in the moment" and "timely fun" is the best interpretation of it.
For modern people, it is rare to slow down and feel the world's customs. Laughing at the wine and living up to the spring light has become a luxury.
When Li Shangyin wrote this poem, he was at the trough of his life, his mother died, and he could only go to the official idle house, idle life, idle and decadent, and could only spend all day playing in the mountains, with flowers as neighbors, and wine as companions.