白居易诗
Poems of Bai Juyi
Index
与梦得沽酒闲饮且约后期
On Dreaming I Was Idly Drinking Bad Wine and Finding Myself Behind Schedule
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少时犹不忧生计 老后谁能惜酒钱 共把十千沽一斗 相看七十欠三年 |
When you're young, you don't worry about money. Once you're old, you cherish your money for wine. Already ten thousand dippers full of cheap stuff And we owe each other money all the time. |
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闲征雅令穷经史 醉听清吟胜管弦 更待菊黄家酝熟 共君一醉一陶然 |
Idly playing fancy drinking games, poor classic scholars. Drunken smiles, clear recitations, better than music any time. Even better when we're waiting for chrysanthemum homebrew. Together, we're always drunk. But then, we're happy, too. |
-- 白居易
废话
It is 838. Bai Juyi is sixty-six. And he still knows how to have a good time with his friends. Judging from his poems and their prefaces, most of his friends are older than he is. So who, among these old guys is brewing chrysanthemum wine? And how good is it? Note that he is still working as the Senior Tutor for the Crown Prince and pulling down a huge salary, plus grain allowance. He won't actually retire for good for three more years.