Don't like it? Poetry stacks wine.
Don't like it? Wolong groans.
On the occasion of the arrival of the Year of the Dragon, Meilong Town Restaurant held a New Year poetry exhibition, and invited Shanghai poets to take the dragon as the theme and share a new chapter.
According to legendWine shop inscription wallShi Yiguan, which first appeared in the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty. The story of the most famous restaurant and the poet of the Tang Dynasty is the flag pavilion painting wall, and Lu You, Yang Wanli and others in the Song Dynasty also have poems inscribed by the restaurant, and there are more "100 poems of Li Baidou wine, and the restaurant in Chang'an City sleeps".
Since its inception in 1938, Shanghai Meilong Town Restaurant has been full of talented and beautiful women, white-clothed and beautiful, every time after drinking, Yunshui has written by itself, inscribed poems and paintings, and given to the restaurant, more than 80 years of eventful years, it has become the unique tradition of Meilong Town Restaurant, and the restaurant has also become a popular restaurant for the literati.
It's the dragon and the phoenix again, and the plum horse once called the lights. The joy of life must be tasteful, and the tongue is happy and the tongue is guessing. ”
At the scene of the poetry exhibition, Wang Tielin, a professor of Chinese and Chinese Chinese literature, wrote a poem"Drink Meilong Town Restaurant in the Year of the Dragon"., pointed out that the name of Meilong Town Restaurant originates from the traditional Peking Opera repertoire "Dragon and Phoenix", and expressed that "the joy of life is not only to watch the drama and eat, but more importantly, to understand life and enlighten the soul in enjoying delicious food and appreciating poetry and culture." The old existence has given birth to the germination of the new, and traditional poetry will surely be able to move towards the broad road of the ancients and the present under the immortal leadership of the national spirit". 
Hu Zhongxing, consultant and supervisor of the Shanghai Poetry Society, cleverly combined the "zodiac dragon" and "physical dragon" in the poem, listing Ban Chao, Ma Chao, Xie An, Chu Suiliang, Pu Songling and Ji Xiaolan, six ancient sages who belonged to the dragon and made significant contributions to the culture of the Chinese nation, to highlight the auspicious celebration of the Year of the Dragon. The last sentence"It's a prosperous year again, and there is no end to the ancient and modern."He expressed his expectations and blessings for the younger generations, and hoped that more and more "dragon" children and "dragon" grandchildren would learn from their predecessors and promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture to maintain a steady stream of vitality and vitality.
The historic Westgate Restaurant invited the Shanghai Poetry Society to hold a poetry exhibition here, which I think is very meaningful. ”
Fang Xiaoyi, a professor of the Department of Chinese at East China Normal University, believes that the combination of Meilong Town's long food culture and history, Shanghai's Shanghai culture, and Chinese classical poetry and traditional culture will be combined through contemporary poets in the form of classical poetry, organically combining ancient and modern, so that poetry can return from ancient books to public life, radiate new vitality in modern society, and let more people truly feel the beauty of Chinese culture and language, so as to further promote the inheritance and development of Shanghai's traditional culture. 
*: Jing'an, Shanghai.