Meaning: Take advantage of this night, calm and calm, sail a boat and disappear from now on, and swim across rivers and lakes for the rest of your life.

Original text:

After drinking Dongpo at night, you wake up drunk and come back as if it were midnight. The child's breath has thundered. You shouldn't even knock at the door, but lean on your stick and listen to the sound of the river. Long hate this body is not mine, when to forget the camp. The midnight wind is calm and the lines are flat. Since then, the boat has passed away, and Jianghai has sent the rest of his life.

Translation:

I woke up drunk in Dongpo's apartment at night and came back as if it was already midnight. At this time, the boy servant at home was already asleep and snoring like thunder. Gently knocked on the door, but there was no response, so I had to lean on the stick and listen to the roar of the river running alone.

I often resent that this body doesn't belong to me. When can I forget to compete for fame and fortune? Taking advantage of this deep night, calm wind and calm waters, I took a boat and disappeared from now on, and swam across rivers, lakes and seas for the rest of my life.

Source: Linjiang Fairy Drinking Dongpo at Night Awakens to Get Drunk

Author Profile:

Su Shi (137-111), a writer, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zi Zi Zhan,no. Dongpo lay man. Han nationality, Sichuanese, was buried in Yingchang (now jia county, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). I have a bumpy career, profound knowledge, high talent, and excellent poetry, calligraphy and painting. His writing, Wang Yang, is unrestrained and fluent, and he is called Ousu with Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Great Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties"; Poems are fresh and vigorous, making good use of exaggeration and metaphor, and their artistic expression is unique. They are also called Su Huang with Huang Tingjian. The school of bold and unconstrained ci has a great influence on later generations, and it is called Su Xin with Xin Qiji; Calligraphy is good at running script and regular script, and can create new ideas. It is full of ups and downs with a pen, and it is childlike. It is also called Song Sijia with Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. Painting is the same as literature. On painting, it advocates spirit likeness and "scholar painting". He is the author of The Complete Works of Su Dongpo and Dongpo Yuefu.

Creation background:

This word was written in September, the fifth year of Song Shenzong Yuanfeng (182), the third year of Su Shi's fall to Huangzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (18), Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei) because of Wutai poetry case, and lived in Lingao Pavilion on the Yangtze River in the south of the city. Later, a wasteland was reclaimed not far away, and crops and trees were planted, which was named Dongpo and named Dongpo layman. Still building a house named Xuetang here.

For Su Shi, who suffered a serious political persecution, this is the rest of his life, and his heart is bitter and painful. But he was not overwhelmed by pain, but showed a superhuman magnanimity, a calm spirit that did not care about the world. Sometimes the clothes are covered with awns, and he goes in and out of the buildings, and sometimes he goes boating on a moonlit night, setting waves between mountains and rivers. He wants to seek the enjoyment of beauty from nature and appreciate the philosophy of life. This is the creative background of this word.

appreciation;

This word was written in the fifth year of Shenzong Yuanfeng, that is, the third year of Dongpo Huangzhou's fall. The style of the whole poem is spacious and elegant. The scene of the writer drinking heartily in Dongpo Xuetang in late autumn night and returning to Lingao's residence after drunkenness shows the poet's ideal of life, his attitude towards life and his desire for complete liberation, which shows the author's broad-minded and sad mood.

The poet meditated in the quiet night and suddenly realized that since he could not control his fate, he should be spared from disaster. Looking at the scenery on the river in front of us, it is "the night is quiet and the pattern is flat", and the heart and the scenery meet, and the gods and things swim, deeply intoxicated by such a quiet and beautiful nature. Therefore, he couldn't help but have a romantic daydream that was divorced from the real society and sang: "The boat died from now on, and the river and the sea stayed for the rest of their lives." He wants to take advantage of this beautiful scenery, drive a flat boat, go with the waves, anything, and he wants to melt his limited life into the infinite nature.