Wine and sing, why worry tonight? What does it mean?

Singing to wine and singing, why worry tonight: Singing to wine and singing originally means that life is limited and one should make a difference. Later, it was also used to refer to carpe diem, here it means drinking to drown sorrows.

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Han Dynasty Cao Cao's "Dan Ge Xing": "Singing while drinking wine, what is life like?"

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Yes Drinking and singing, what is life like?

Like morning dew, it will be more painful every day.

Generosity should be treated with generosity, and worries will be unforgettable.

The only solution to worries is Du Kang.

Qingqing Zijin, my heart is leisurely.

But for the sake of your Majesty, I still ponder it.

Yo yo deer calls, eating apples in the wild.

I have a guest who plays the drum, harp and sheng.

It’s as bright as the moon, when can you wipe it off?

Worry comes from it and cannot be cut off.

The more unfamiliar you are, the more you cross the border, the more useless you are.

We talked about the banquet, thinking about old kindness.

The moon and stars are sparse, and the black magpie flies south.

Walking around the tree three times, where is the branch to lean on?

The mountains never get too high, and the water (sea) never gets too deep.

When Duke Zhou spits out food, the world returns to its heart.

Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220?), whose courtesy name was Mengde, whose last name was Jili, and whose nickname was Amo, was from Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou, Anhui Province). An outstanding statesman, militarist, writer, and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao conquered all directions, internally eliminated the separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Ma Chao, and Han Sui, and externally surrendered the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. , unified northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production and social order, laying the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei. When Cao Cao was alive, he served as the Prime Minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later as the King of Wei. After his death, he was given the posthumous title of King Wu. After his son Cao Pi became emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu, with the temple name Taizu.

Cao Cao was skilled in military tactics and good at poetry. He expressed his political ambitions and reflected the suffering life of the people in the late Han Dynasty. He was majestic, generous and desolate. His prose was also clear and neat, which opened up and prospered Jian'an literature and gave it to later generations. He left behind precious spiritual wealth and was known as the character of Jian'an in history. Lu Xun evaluated him as "the founder of reformed articles." At the same time, Cao Cao was also good at calligraphy. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty rated Cao Cao's calligraphy as "wonderful" in "Shujuan".