Singing to wine, life is like dew, the past days are bitter, what does it mean?

"Singing to wine, how many years there are in life. Just like the morning dew, how bitter it is every day" means singing loudly in front of the wine, life is short and the days and months fly by. Just like the morning dew, it is fleeting and there are too many lost days!

From "Dan Ge Xing"

"Dan Ge Xing" Cao Cao

Singing to wine, the geometry of life

For example, the morning dew, the passing of the sun There is much suffering

Be generous with generosity, and unforgettable worries

How to relieve worries? Only Du Kang

Green Zi Jin, lingering in my heart

But for the sake of you, I have been pondering it till now

Yo yo deer roar, eating apples in the wild

I have a guest who plays the harp and sheng

It is as bright as the moon, when can I shake it off

The sorrow that comes from it cannot be cut off

As we cross the border, It's in vain to coexist.

Let's talk about it?, thinking about old kindness

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

Wrap around the tree three times, what branch can I rely on?

The mountains never get too high and the sea never gets too deep

The Duke of Zhou vomits food and the world returns to its heart

Translation

Singing loudly in front of the wine, Life is short and the days and months fly by. Just like the morning dew, it is fleeting and there are too many lost days! The singing at the banquet was passionate and generous, and melancholy filled my heart for a long time. What can you rely on to relieve depression? Only binge drinking can provide relief. Students wearing blue collars, you make me yearn for you day and night. It's just because of you that I still recite it in pain.

Under the sunshine, the deer chirped happily and ate leisurely on the green slope. Once talented people from all over the world come to my house, I will play the harp and the sheng to entertain the guests. When will I be able to pick up the bright moon hanging in the sky? The sorrow and anger I have stored in my heart suddenly spurt out and form a river. Guests from far away came to visit me one by one along the field paths.

Reunited after a long separation, we had a banquet and talked freely, vying to tell the story of the friendship from the past. The moonlight was bright and the stars were sparse, and a group of nesting magpies flew south. They flew around the tree for three weeks without folding their wings. Where can they find shelter? The mountains are majestic only if they do not abandon the earth and rocks, and the sea is majestic only if it does not abandon the trickling water. I wish to be as courteous and virtuous as the Duke of Zhou, and wish that all the heroes in the world would sincerely submit to me.

Extended information:

"Dan Ge Xing" is an old title of the Han Dynasty Yuefu and belongs to "Xianghe Ge Ci·Ping Tiao Qu". This means that it was originally the name of a piece of music. The original ancient words have been lost. There are 24 songs with the same name collected in Yuefu, the earliest one is Cao Cao's. Of course I don’t know how to sing this kind of music now. However, in Yuefu's "Xianghege·Pingdiaoqu", in addition to "Duan Ge Xing", there is also "Long Ge Xing". Wu Jing's "An Explanation of Ancient Yuefu Questions" of the Tang Dynasty quoted the ancient "Long Song is fierce", and Wei Wendi Cao Pi's "Yan Ge" "The short song cannot be chanted even if it is short" and the sentence "The long song continues the short song" in Fu Xuan's "Yan Ge Xing" of the Jin Dynasty. It is believed that "long song" and "short song" refer to "songs have different lengths".

Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220), whose courtesy name was Mengde, whose last name was Jili, and whose nickname was Amo, was from Peiguoqiao (now Bozhou, Anhui) and was of Han nationality. An outstanding statesman, military strategist, writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms, he conquered the four directions in the name of the Emperor of Han, eliminated the separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, and Han Sui internally, and surrendered the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. externally, unified northern China, and implemented A series of policies restored economic production and social order and laid the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei.