Grape wine luminous cup, want to drink pipa immediately. Don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times?

translation

The wine was filled with luxurious glasses, and when the soldiers were about to drink, the pipa suddenly kept ringing, urging them to fight quickly. The general said, "Please don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield, because how many people who went to the battlefield can return safely from ancient times to the present?"

Appreciation and evaluation

The poet set the first sentence of this opening with passionate brushstrokes, sonorous tones and dazzling words. The "luminous glass of grape wine" is like a grand banquet with colorful, dazzling and fragrant wine. This scene surprises and excites people, creating an atmosphere and setting the tone for the lyric of the whole poem.

The word "want to drink" at the beginning of the second sentence renders the extraordinary attractive charm of this feast of wine and food, and shows the generous and cheerful character of the soldiers. Just when everyone "wanted to drink", the band played the pipa, and the banquet began. The rapid and cheerful melody seemed to urge the soldiers to raise their glasses and drink, which made the already warm atmosphere suddenly boil.

This poem has changed the syllables commonly used in the seven-character sentence and adopted the syntax of "upper two and lower five", which further enhanced its appeal. The word "rush" here, some people say, is a rush to start, and it seems difficult to connect with the following. Some people explain it as: push it, drink it or drink it. This is also not in line with the bold and unrestrained mental state of the soldiers.

The word "immediately" often reminds people of "starting". In fact, among the conference semifinals in the western regions, the pipa was originally played on a horse. "Pipa immediately urges" is a scene of deliberately rendering a cheerful feast.

The three or four sentences of the poem are about drinking and persuading wine at the banquet. In the past, some people thought that these two sentences were "to be broad-minded and feel sad." Others said: "Pretending to drink heavily is extremely sad."

Although the words are different, they are all inseparable from a word "sadness". Later, it was more useful to sum up the thoughts and feelings of this poem with words such as deep, sad, sentimental and anti-war, based on three or four sentences, especially the last sentence. It is obviously an exaggeration to say that "how many people have fought in ancient times".

Three or four sentences are just words to persuade wine at the dinner, not sad feelings. Although it is somewhat "banter", it also finds the most "reason" with environmental and personality characteristics for getting drunk. “

Drunk lying on the battlefield shows not only bold, cheerful and excited feelings, but also the courage to die, which is consistent with the warm atmosphere shown by the luxurious banquet. This is a happy feast, and the scene and artistic conception are by no means one or two people drinking and drowning their sorrows.

The mood reflected by its bright language and fluctuating rhythm is unrestrained and fanatical; What it shows is an exciting and yearning artistic charm, which is the characteristic of frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Extended data:

Liangzhou is located in Wuwei, Gansu Province, and belongs to Longyou Road in the Tang Dynasty. The music is mostly mixed with Hu Yin from Kucha (now Kuqa, Xinjiang) countries in the western region. Guo Zhiyun, the commander of Longyou in Tang Dynasty, presented Liangzhou music score to Xuanzong during the Kaiyuan period, which became popular immediately. Quite a few poets wrote Liangzhou Song and Liangzhou Ci according to the score to express the frontier customs.

This shows that the Tang people absorbed, digested and innovated foreign cultures with an unconcerned attitude, and they are prosperous and powerful. Grapes were introduced into the Central Plains from the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, but the atmosphere of making wine was still dominated by the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty.