Moved by the occasion as well as the alcohol, Li put brush to paper and composed a poem that the women set to a well known tune as they sang: "How much longer, the springtime of our lives?
絲竹管樂又彈奏了起來。苦酒入喉，後主寫下了〈虞美人〉交與歌妓們演唱：「春花秋月何時了？