Changle joke

It means: be sure to get drunk today, even on the battlefield. This time, I went out to serve my country. I'm dying, but I'm not ready to come back alive.

These two poems are from the first of two Liangzhou poems written by William Wang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. It mainly highlights the grand and luxurious banquet before the expedition and the scenes of soldiers happily drinking and having fun, and shows the broad-minded and unrestrained thoughts and feelings of soldiers who put life and death at risk.

The full text is as follows:

Wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa right away.

Drunk lying on the battlefield, you don't laugh, there have been several wars in ancient times.

Translation:

At the banquet, mellow grapes and fine wine are packed in delicate luminous cups, and geisha play the hurried and cheerful pipa to help them drink. The soldiers were filled with pride at the thought of killing the enemy across the battlefield and serving the country.

You must get drunk today, even on the battlefield. This time, I went out to serve my country. I'm dying, but I'm not ready to come back alive.

Extended data:

The author introduces:

William Wang (687 ~726 AD), a native of Jinyang (now Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province), was a frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty. William Wang, a contemporary of Wang Changling, is a rare talented poet.

There are only 14 poems in the whole Tang Dynasty. Jinshi, give me an honest suggestion and transfer captain Changle. Re-put forward the super-category and call it secretary orthography. "To mind other people's business, to drive others. As Ruzhou with a long history, don't drive in Zhouxian.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Liangzhou Words