Confucianists spoke of moderation while Daoists preached enlightenment through drunkenness.

儒家讲中庸，道家讲通过醉酒开悟。

Quick to comprehend Buddhist philosophy, he constantly associated with monks, and was the first poet to inject Buddhist philosophy into Confucianist poetry.

天生聪慧，对佛理一触即通，因此，常与僧人往还，他也是第一个将佛理入诗的。

It has, through the centuries, for better or for worse, burned its way into the very fabric of Chinese social life and weighed down into the Chinese consciousness so that even the most incorruptible anti-Confucianist cannot escape its influence.

几个世纪以来， 无论是好是坏，它已经深入中国社会生活的结构， 并压入中国人的意识，以至于即使是最廉洁的反儒家也无法逃脱它的影响。