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.

Source: Two Liangzhou Ci Poems (Part One)

Original text:

Two Liangzhou Ci Poems (I)

Author William Wang? the Tang Dynasty

Wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa right away.

Don't laugh when you are drunk on the battlefield. How many people fought in ancient times?

Extended data:

Two Poems of Liangzhou is a group of poems written by William Wang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the poem, the grand and luxurious banquet and the scene of the soldiers drinking heartily before the expedition are rendered, which shows the broad-minded and unrestrained thoughts and feelings of the soldiers who put life and death at risk.

Creative background:

Most of the Seven Unique Poems in Tang Dynasty are Yuefu Ci, and Liangzhou Ci is one of them. Sing according to the local music tunes of Liangzhou (now Hexi and Longyou in Gansu). The Book of the New Tang Dynasty says, "Tianbao music tunes are all named after border areas, such as Liangzhou, Yizhou and Ganzhou."

This poem has a strong local color. From the title, Liangzhou belongs to the northwest border; From the content point of view, wine was a specialty of the western regions at that time, luminous cup was introduced from the western regions, pipa was produced in the western regions, and Hu Jia was a popular musical instrument in the northwest region.

These are all related to the customs of the northwest frontier fortress. This group of seven wonders is just a group of beautiful frontier poems.