春夜宴桃李园序

春夜宴桃李園序

Chūnyè yàn táolǐyuán xù

proper noun

Meanings

1 Preface to a Spring Night Feast in the Peach and Plum Garden, Li Bai's short preface to the poems of a feast with his cousins

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

《春夜宴桃李园序》是李白写的一篇短文。

《 Chūnyè yàn táolǐyuán xù 》 shì Lǐ Bái xiě de yì piān duǎnwén.

Preface to a Spring Night Feast in the Peach and Plum Garden is a short prose piece by Li Bai.

HSK 7-9

李白在《春夜宴桃李园序》里说，人生短暂，应该及时行乐。

Lǐ Bái zài 《 Chūnyè yàn táolǐyuán xù 》 lǐ shuō, rénshēng duǎnzàn, yīnggāi jíshí-xínglè.

In Preface to a Spring Night Feast in the Peach and Plum Garden, Li Bai says life is short and we should enjoy it while we can.

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history

李白 wrote it for an evening of poems and wine with his younger cousins. It opens by calling heaven and earth an inn (逆旅) for all things and time a passing guest (过客) of a hundred generations, then describes the feast: 开琼筵以坐花 'we spread a jewelled banquet to sit among the flowers'.

culture

Guests who failed to finish a poem had to drink three measures of wine as a forfeit, following the rule of the Golden Valley Garden, where the Jin magnate Shi Chong held his famous poetry parties.

Stroke Order

春 chūn

夜 yè

宴 yàn

桃 táo

李 lǐ

园 yuán

序 xù