Heaven-Made Talents · Li Bai

Li Bai · Tang · Li Bai

[Famous-lines edition] An excerpt from Li Bai’s “Bring in the Wine”, featuring its best-known couplet. For the complete poem, see our full-text jizi edition “Bring in the Wine (Full Text)” (https://flamuse.com/en/product/bring-in-the-wine-full-text-jizi-li-bai-poet/). “Do you not see the Yellow River’s waters come from the sky, rushing to the sea never to return? Do you not see in the bright hall mirror the grief of white hair — black silk at dawn, snow by dusk? When life goes your way, drink your fill; never leave the golden cup empty before the moon. Heaven made my talents for a use; a thousand gold spent will all come back. Cook the lamb, slaughter the ox, let us be merry — we must drink three hundred cups at once. Master Cen, Danqiu, bring in the wine, do not stop your cups! Let me sing you a song; lend me your ears. Bells, drums and jade feasts are not worth prizing; I only wish to stay drunk and never wake. Sages of old are all forgotten; only drinkers leave their names. The Prince of Chen once feasted at Pingle, ten thousand a cask, in reckless joy. Why, host, do you say you are short of money? Go buy more wine to pour for us. My dappled horse, my thousand-gold furs — call the boy to trade them for fine wine, and with you I’ll drown the sorrows of ten thousand years.” Li Bai’s famous yuefu poem of the Tianbao era. The 14 characters of its best-known couplet are each collected from public-domain rubbings of Yan Zhenqing’s Yan Family Temple Stele, Duobao Pagoda Stele, Yan Qinli Stele and Zang Huaike Stele, over an ink-wash full moon.

$32 (reference) · ¥229 CNY

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