Drunk in Chang'an: Li Taibai's Story of Immortality in Wine

"Drunk in Chang'an: Li Taibai's Story of the Immortal in Wine" takes wine as the vein and poetry as the soul, telling the story of the life of a generation of poetic immortal Li Bai and the wine culture of the Tang Dynasty. From the first taste of "green ant" turbid wine by the stream in Zhongshu, to the wine shops in Jinling and Yangzhou to see the bustling market of "front shops and back factories"; from the Chang'an Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet to attract the emperor with an agate cup inlaid with gold animal heads, to the Hanlin to worship the daily drink The Liang brewing agency's fine wines were eventually slandered and left the capital because of the wild excesses; from being displaced during the An-Shi Rebellion and offering turbid wine as sacrifices to the common people, when Yelang was exiled he brewed his own green wine to express his sorrow, until he drank the last glass of life's wine in his old age. The work deeply interweaves the fate of the characters with the wine culture of the Tang Dynasty, and presents in detail the official brewing system of the "Liang Brewing Department", the wine price custom of ten thousand qian a dou, the wine fading fashion spread from the palace to the market, as well as traditional techniques such as fermentation to make wine and spreading ashes to stop fermentation. Through the heroic spirit of "Hundred Poems about Fighting for Wine" and the desolation of "Begging for Wine to Soothe the Sorrowful Heart", it shows Li Bai's struggle and detachment in prosperous and troubled times. This is not only a biographical novel of a poet, but also an ukiyo-e of the prosperous Tang Dynasty using wine as a medium - the wine vessel reflects the glory of power, the wine shop carries the warmth and warmth of human relationships, and the green wine precipitates the joys and sorrows of the years. In the blend of poetry and wine, the golden age of "advocating magnificence, unrestrained extroversion" is reproduced, and how a talented soul wrote immortal life poems between drunkenness and sobriety.