Li Bai is a representative writer in the poetry world of the Tang Dynasty and another great romantic poet in the history of Chinese literature after Qu Yuan. He was mainly active during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of Xuanzong. This period was a period when the Tang Empire was unprecedentedly prosperous and powerful, but also lurked with various social contradictions and crises. His drinking poems reflected the characteristics of this period. This article explores the cultural connotation and positive significance of his drinking.

1. Conveying love through wine and giving poems to friends

Wine is an ancient and civilized drink and a special food that satisfies people's material and spiritual lives. It has many functions for people. Among them, it is used to convey feelings and mediate friendship. It has been a common behavior of people since ancient times. Li Bai conveyed his love through wine and gave poems to his friends, which enriched the cultural connotation of his drinking poems.

Guo Moruo calculated in "Li Bai and Du Fu" that Li Bai's drinking poems accounted for 16% of his total works, and farewell poems accounted for a large proportion of his drinking poems. Li Bai drank wine and wrote poems as gifts to his friends. Most of these poems expressed his sincere feelings and deep friendship for his friends. For example, "Jinling Wine Shop Leaves a Farewell": "The wind blows the willow flowers and fills the shop with fragrance, and Wu Ji presses wine to encourage guests to taste it. The children of Jinling come to see each other off, whether they want to go or not, everyone has a drink. Please ask Dongliu Shui, who is short of you? "This poem describes the situation of the poet and the Jinling disciples drinking when they parted. The author compares his feelings of separation with his friends to Dong, which shows the poet's deep affection and friendship to the Jinling disciples. "Inscribed on Dai Lao Hotel" says: "In Ji Sou's Huangquan, old spring should still be brewed. If there is no Li Bai on the night table, who can sell wine?" The memorial to an ordinary winemaker expresses deep feelings in simple language, which is very touching. It also shows Li Bai's cherishment of friendship. Li Bai despised the princes and ministers, and was close to Pingfa and loved the merchants. Du Fu said: "Li Bai wrote hundreds of poems about drinking wine and slept in a restaurant on Chang'an Street. The emperor couldn't get on the boat when he called him, so he claimed that he was a wine immortal." The poet got drunk and slept in a citizen's house on the street. The emperor ignored him, which shows that he had a strong friendship with the common people. Otherwise, how could he be like this? "Going down to Zhongnan Mountain and passing through Husi Mountain where people stayed and bought wine", "Fan the layman in the north of Lu City lost his way and lost his way, fell into the cocklebur, saw Fan Chi wine and picked cocklebur", and "Gift to Wang Lun" are also works of this type. Through the above brief analysis, Li Bai's love for friends and common people are particularly prominent in his drinking poems. Wine became the bond between him and his friends, and the poet's strong "drinking passion" has always been appreciated by future generations.

2. Use wine to help poetry, poetry and wine are famous

It is very common in the history of literature that masterpieces are produced after drinking, and poems become famous and wine is famous. Bai Juyi's long poem "Pipa Tour", Wang Ji's "Giving Cheng Cheng Shishi", "Dukang Wine" in Cao Cao's "Singing to Wine", and "Shuanggou" in Su Shi's "Sizhou Chu Jiujiu Snow in the Snow" The Envoy Sends Drinking Wine "Isn't wine the wine that is famous all over the world after drinking masterpieces and poetry? This is especially true for Li Bai. Du Fu said that he could write a hundred poems after drinking a dou of wine. Du Fu said that he could write a hundred poems after drinking a dou of wine. Although this is an exaggeration, it can be seen the relationship between Li Bai's drinking and poetry creation. While he was drinking, he became very enthusiastic about his poems and wrote the following poem: "If you don't see it, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky and rushes to the sea and never returns. If you don't see it, the mirror in the high hall has sad white hair, and the morning is like blue silk and turns to snow at dusk! If you are proud of life, you must have all the joy, don't you? Make the gold bottle empty and face the moon. I am destined to be useful. The bells, drums, food and jade are not valuable, but I hope I will never wake up after being drunk for a long time. Only the drinkers leave their names." This poem has a heroic spirit and unrestrained language, showing the poet's uninhibited, arrogant and conceited character. Li Bai's poems are often written out of excitement, and his writing style is smooth and smooth, just like the inspiration caused by drinking. According to Huang Yanbai's "Wine" "Reviews of Famous Chinese Drinkers Part Two", it is recorded that Li Bai has more than 70 masterpieces about drinking, among which "Song of Xiangyang", "Jianjin Wine", "Yin of Liang Yuan", "Reply to the Twelve Colds of the King" "Drinking Alone at Night with Feelings", "Asking the Moon for Wine", "Drinking Alone under the Moon", and "Sending Du Erfu off at Dongshimen in Lu County" are immortal works that have been passed down to later generations. Jiuzhu became Li Bai's poem and made him famous all over the world. But conversely speaking, Li Bai's poems add luster to wine. It can be said that Li Bai brings more beauty to wine than wine brings to Li Bai's poems.

On the other hand, it is also the result of poets pursuing natural beauty and using various forms to express various life contents.

5. Created a unique artistic style of drinking poetry

As a romantic poet, Li Bai is great and the most typical. He said that his poems are "the five mountains are shaken when he writes in high spirits, and the poems are like roaring in Cangzhou". Du Fu praised his poems and said: "When the pen falls, the wind and rain startle, the poem becomes the weeping ghosts and gods." This incomparable magical artistic charm gives his drinking poems a unique and distinctive artistic style. Mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1. Clear self-image and strong expression of feelings. Li Bai is not a poet who "doesn't care about everything". On the contrary, he seems to care about everything, and he has experienced and expressed many things in life. Although no life can satisfy him forever, Basan's fiery emotions and strong personality have left an indelible imprint on the poems that express all kinds of life, and there is a strong subjective color of self-expression everywhere. When he wanted to be an official, he said: "When I am free, I fish on the Bixi River, and then I go on a boat and dream of the sun." When the emperor ordered him to enter the capital, he was so proud that he said, "Look up to the sky and go out laughing. How can I be a Penghao person?" When he was politically frustrated, he shouted: "The road is like the blue sky, I can't get it alone", "If life is not satisfactory in this world, the Ming Dynasty will ruin the boat". Li Bai's favorite wine: "In distant years, the duck's head of the Han River was green, just like the first fermentation of grapes. If this river turned into spring wine, the river would be built with hills and terraces." Since he pursues self-expression, the way of expressing his emotions is by no means concealed and suppressed, but unrestrained and bursting out. "The fish's eyes also laughed at me, saying that like the bright moon, the Hua Si Quan Miao cannot eat, and the donkey can't eat." Aspirations ring in the spring breeze." "The five-flowered horse and the golden fur will be exchanged for fine wine, and I will sell the eternal sorrow with you." And so on, impassioned and loud, showing the image of the poet who is both tall and handsome, but also lonely and depressed. There is nothing euphemistic or implicit here, but a natural and direct expression of one's heart.

2. Subjective and arbitrary, ever-changing. Reading some of Li Bai's longer drinking poems gives people a sense of ups and downs, often suddenly switching from one image to another, and from one realm to another.