What does it mean to be drunk and deny half a pot of wine? No, the answer is right in front of us. Let's put it in plain English.

"Too drunk to admit half a pot of wine money" means that you would rather be drunk than talk about wine money.

There is an extended meaning here: I did something wrong, but I didn't admit it because of face.

There is a poem in the Song of the Peach Blossom Temple: "When you wake up, just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, come to sleep under the flowers." It means sitting in the flowers when you wake up, and sleeping under the flowers when you are drunk. Express your noble moral integrity that you don't want to go with the flow. "Too drunk to recognize half a pot of wine" means something similar.

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The Full Text and Translation of Peach Blossom Garden

Peach blossom temple song

Taohuawu Taohua Temple, Taohuaguan Taohuaxian.

Peach Fairy cultivates peach trees, picks them and drinks them.

When you wake up, you just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep under the flowers.

Half drunk and half awake day after day, flowers bloom year after year.

I hope I die of old age. I don't want to bow my head in front of horses and chariots.

Cars and horses are rich and interesting, and hops are poor.

If wealth is better than poverty, one is underground and the other is in heaven.

If you compare poverty to horses and chariots, he will have to drive away my leisure.

Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it.

There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.

Vernacular translation

There are Taohuawu Taohuaan and Taohuawu Taohuaxian.

Peach Fairy planted many peach trees, and he picked them to exchange drinks.

Sit quietly in the flowers when you wake up, and sleep under the flowers when you are drunk.

Half awake and half drunk, day after day, year after year.

I just want to die of old age in the peach blossom wine room, and I don't want to bow before the horses and chariots of dignitaries.

Flow is the interest of nobles, and wine glasses and flowers are the fate and hobbies of poor people like me.

If you compare the wealth of others with my poverty, one is in the sky and the other is in the ground.

If I compare my poverty to the horses and chariots of the powerful, they work for the powerful, but I get the pleasure of leisure.

Others laugh that I am crazy, but I laugh that others can't see through the world.

You haven't seen those rich families once brilliant, but now you can't see their graves, just for farmland.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peach Blossom Temple Song