A pot of sake, a good poem, there seems to be an inextricable connection between wine and the poet. The author has made a little statistics, in the thousand poems of the poetry immortal Li Baiping, more than one-third are related to wine; even the talented woman Li Qingzhao, among the more than 50 poems in her life, wine-related is also everywhere.
Good wine produces good poetry, but unfortunately, the body of the poets is not iron, and there are many literati who are injured by alcohol, so quitting alcohol has become a heart disease of many literati. How difficult this wine is to quit, Huang Tingjian and Xin Zhiyi's experience should be very deep.
Huang Tingjian was half a good drinker, after his wife died, he made up his mind to quit drinking, but unfortunately, later at the banquet, he met others to persuade him to drink, he still couldn't help it, and wrote the first "Xi Jiang Yue · Break The Only Thing in Life". In the words he wrote: "Don't drink and others laugh at me", this reason is really clever.
However, Xin abandoned his illness because his wife advised him to quit drinking, and in order to express his determination, he wrote a poem "Qinyuan Chun will stop drinking and abstain from wine glasses so that they will not come near". Using an anthropomorphic method, he had a dialogue with the wine glass, obviously it was difficult for him to quit drinking, but he blamed the wine glass for pestering him.
The above 2 are all good wine people, and the one I want to talk to you about in this issue is not losing them at all when drinking, and this person is Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming's good wine is known to everyone, and he has written many drinking poems in his lifetime, of which "Twenty Drinking Songs" is a classic. It is quite interesting that many of these 20 poems obviously do not have a word for "wine", and they are written without any matter related to wine, but because of good wine, he prefers to use the topic of "drinking".
Alcohol hurt his body, and his relatives have been forcing Tao Yuanming to quit drinking, but unfortunately he has not been able to quit. At the age of 38, he finally could not withstand the repeated admonitions of his relatives, and he finally made up his mind to quit drinking. In order to show his determination, he also wrote a poem on abstinence from alcohol, the whole poem has a total of 100 words, but it contains 20 "stop" words, let's read it:
"Stop Drinking"
Stay in the second city, idle and idle. Sit in the shade and stop in the doorway.
Good taste stop garden aoi, big stop childish. There is more than wine in life, and there is no joy in stopping wine.
Twilight is restless, and morning cannot be lifted. Day after day, the camp guards stopped.
It is not happy to know in vain, and it is not known to stop self-interest. The beginning is the end of the good, and the present is the end of the true.
From now on, it will stop at Sangsang. Qing Yan stops sleeping, xi stops thousands of rituals.
To be honest, after reading the meaning of the poem, I think it is almost like the way we usually write a letter of guarantee. Let's divide it into 5 verses, 4 sentences each to explain its meaning.
The first verse says, "My family lives in the suburbs, and my life is leisurely; when I am fine, I rest in the shade and take a walk in the wood gate." Each sentence in this section uses a "stop" word, and at first glance, this is Tao Gong's intention to show off, and he deliberately wants to make every sentence have a stop word to express his determination. Judging from this section, he lived a good life of idleness.
In the third and fourth verses, the protagonist "wine" appears. The meaning of these two verses is: "I like to eat sunflower vegetables from my home and enjoy playing with my children." In addition, the biggest hobby is to drink a little wine, and when you don't drink it, you will be upset. If you don't have a drink at night, you won't sleep well; if you don't have a drink in the morning, you won't get up. I also wanted to quit drinking, but when I didn't drink it, I felt that my pulse was not clear. Judging from these two sections, Tao Gong's addiction to alcohol is indeed not small.
The last two verses are determined, meaning: "There are many benefits of not drinking, from now on I really don't drink, I believe that after not drinking, my appearance will become higher and higher, and it will be good for thousands of years." Reading the last two sentences, the author couldn't help but laugh. When we wrote the letter of guarantee before, it was also so convincing, reasonable, and then we still wanted to do a good look in the future, but unfortunately the result was often punched in the face, and we could only sigh: I still overestimated myself!
Tao Yuanming's abstinence from alcohol was definitely unsuccessful, otherwise there would not have been as many drinking poems as later. However, his poem of abstinence from alcohol has had a profound impact on future generations. Many people think that this way of writing that every poem contains the same word begins with Tao Yuanming's poem. Since then, many poets have used this way of writing. Although this way of writing is essentially a deliberate show of skill by the poet, we know that the original poem can still be written in this way.
Looking at this poem, whether it is in terms of words or structure, it is actually remarkable. The whole poem uses witty and humorous language to tell us, and it has a taste of folk songs, so that we can feel the naughty energy of the poet between the lines.
However, it is precisely because Tao Yuanming is good at wine, and he is the idol of many literati in later generations, which also makes the connection between literati and wine more close. Li Bai once wrote a poem "Mocking Wang Liyang Refuses to Drink", Wang Liyang refuses to drink, Li Bai wrote this poem to laugh at him, there is a sentence in the poem "Laugh and kill Tao Yuanming, do not drink wine in the cup", it can be seen that Li Bai's love wine is related to Tao Yuanming. In the Tang Dynasty, a literati would be laughed at if he did not drink alcohol. But poets love wine, mostly because they need inspiration, romantic nature, we still have to moderate Oh!