great capacity for drinking and poetry

great capacity for drinking and poetry

Baijiubaipian, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ǒ Uji ǔ B ǎ IPI ā n, which means to drink a bucket of wine and write a hundred poems. Quick thinking. It comes from the song of Eight Immortals in drinking by Du Fu of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Du Fu's song of Eight Immortals in drinking in Tang Dynasty: "Li Bai's poems about wine are a hundred, and Chang'an's Restaurant sleeps."

Idiom usage

Mr. Sun Ruiren, the master of the house, wrote elegant articles, but he was addicted to alcohol. After drunk, he did the same as when he woke up, and all the officials in the pavilion thought that he was inferior to a hundred articles of wine fighting. (notes of Yuewei thatched cottage, Volume 11, by Ji Yun of Qing Dynasty)