The meaning of the saying "The night-glowing cup of grape wine is full of wine, and the pipa pipa urges one to drink it right away" is that when one wants to drink it, the pipa pipa sounds at the banquet table as if urging one to go out to the battlefield. The phrase "the night-luminous cup of grape wine, want to drink pipa immediately urging" is from the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Han's "Liangzhou Lyrics".

The Lyrics of Liangzhou

Wang Han [Tang Dynasty]

Grapes and wine in a night-glowing cup, want to drink pipa and urge me right away.

Drunk in the sand, the king does not laugh; how many people have returned from ancient battles?

Translation

The sweet grape wine at the banquet was filled in the luminous cups, and when I was about to drink it, the lute sounded on the horse, as if urging people to go to war.

If you are drunk on the battlefield, please don't laugh at me. How many people have returned home from war?

Composition background

The New Tang Book - Music Zhi said, "Between the Tianbao music tunes, all the names of the border areas, such as Liangzhou, Yizhou, Ganzhou and so on." This poem has a very strong local color. From the title, Liangzhou belongs to the northwestern border; from the content, wine is a specialty of the western region at that time, luminescent cups are imported from the western region, pipa is produced in the western region, and Hu Jia is a popular musical instrument in the northwestern part of the country. This group of seven poems is exactly a group of beautiful border poems.