(Drunken on the battlefield, Lord Grim) What does it mean?

If you are lying drunk on the battlefield, please don’t laugh.

From: "Liangzhou Ci" by Wang Han of the Tang Dynasty

The luminous cup of grape wine reminds you to drink pipa immediately.

Lord Grim, lying drunk on the battlefield, how many people have fought in ancient times?

Translation:

At the wine feast, the mellow grape wine was filled into luminous cups. Just as he was about to drink, the pipa sounded, as if urging people to go to war.

If you are lying drunk on the battlefield, please don’t laugh. How many people who went out to fight in ancient times returned to their hometowns? Extended information

"New Tang Book·Le Zhi" says: "Tianbaojian music tunes are all named after border areas, such as Liangzhou, Yizhou, Ganzhou and so on." This poem has local color Extremely rich. Judging from the title, Liangzhou belongs to the northwest frontier; judging from the content, wine was a specialty of the Western Regions at that time, luminous cups were imported from the Western Regions, pipa was produced in the Western Regions, and Hujia was a popular musical instrument in the Northwest. This group of Qijue is a beautiful set of frontier fortress poems.

The whole poem expresses anti-war lamentation, revealing the tragic fact that there have been very few survivors since the beginning of the war. However, it is written in a heroic and broad-minded way, expressing a tragic emotion of seeing death as if it were home. This allows people to see more clearly the sadness and disillusionment deep in the hearts of the soldiers through this seemingly bold and open-minded mind.