Mention the word "wine", many people will think of Li Bai, because he has "'raise a glass to invite Mingyue'", there is ''will have to drink a thousand cups''" for the obsession with wine, very right people think he can be the best! However, Liu Ling in the Wei and Jin dynasties was really enchanted by wine, and was a veritable ''Dionysus'', and Li Bai was no better than him!
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest
The Western Jin Dynasty is a magical dynasty, which did not last long, only the second died, there was no contribution to history, but because of a group of bamboo forest seven sages composed of Ruan, Ji Kang, Shantao, Xiang Xiu, Wang Rong and Ruan Xian and Liu Ling, who seemed crazy, they were often mentioned by later generations and became a magical dynasty in people's eyes! People mention that they can't help but be surprised by their contempt for etiquette, curious about their grotesque behavior, and even more touched by their literati bones!
And the protagonist Liu Ling we want to talk about today is one of them, he is famous for wine, what happened?
Liu Ling indulged in alcohol to escape the world
Although the Western Jin Dynasty was a unified country and the society was stable, the newly established regime had a characteristic of being afraid of people making trouble and rebelling, after all, the regime was not stable, and the primary object of suspicion was those high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the previous dynasty, such as Ji Kang in the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, who was one of the first targets, because he married Cao Cao's granddaughter!
In addition, the newly established regime also likes to attract some celebrities and gentlemen in society to become officials to show themselves as corporals! For example, during the Qing Dynasty, because of the fear of Han rebellion, many times opened the Erudite Hong Confucian Branch, in order to recruit those humane imperial courts in society to be officials and appease some Han people who wanted to rebel! The Western Jin Dynasty is no exception!
When it was first established, the regime was unstable, and it wanted to recruit celebrities from society to become officials! The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest were in their consideration, but Ji Kang was not, he was Cao Cao's granddaughter-in-law and would not be loyal to the Western Jin court, so the imperial court turned its attention to Liu Ling, who was famous for drinking.
For example, the "Biography of Liu Ling" of the Book of Jin records:
Try to join the army for Jianwei. Tai began to take countermeasures, and did not do anything. The generations are all high-ranking, and the solitude is useless. He died.
When the imperial court saw that Liu Ling had once joined the army, it sent someone to persuade him to become an official in the imperial court, so Liu Ling quickly drunk himself with a drunken tincture, and when the people sent by the imperial court came, he dragged himself to the street to run naked, and the people of the imperial court were afraid that this person was not a madman, right? Just hurry back!
Liu Ling is obsessed with alcohol
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, many people loved to drink, but Liu Ling was fascinated, and he even wrote an article called "Ode to Wine Virtue" to praise the benefits of drinking! For example, the "Wine Virtue Song" recorded in the Book of Jin records the following:
There is no room, the curtain is on the ground, and the indulgence is as it is. Listen quietly and do not hear the sound of thunder, and do not see the shape of Tarzan. Do not feel the cold and heat of the cut muscles, the feelings of lust.
Liu Ling said that after drinking wine, he was really happy to take the sky as the house floor, and he could not smell the sound of thunder and lightning, did not look at the height of Mount Tai, and even could not feel the cold and heat, drinking was really a good thing! The infinite effect of the wine can make his spirit get unlimited exertion, and his obsession with wine is really amazing!
Liu Ling used wine as medicine
People who eat grains and grains will always get sick, and Liu Ling is no exception, but when he is sick, he does not take medicine but drinks, why? Because he felt that wine was really a good thing, after drinking it, he was refreshed, the medicine was eliminated, and he directly used the wine as a medicine! So he said to his wife, give me some wine to drink, and I will be fine when I am finished. But his wife was worried about her, saying that being sick and not being able to drink was not good for her health! You have to quit drinking!
Liu Ling superficially promised to say, OK, I will not drink, I can swear to the gods, his wife happily found the sacrifices to offer, put everything in place, let him come to worship the gods and swear. But Liu Lingbai is worshipping, what did he say? The New Language of the World - Ren's Birthday records:
''Born Liu Ling, in the name of wine, drinks one drink and one hu, five buckets to dissolve the sauce. The woman's words should not be heard. ''
He said that I was born to drink, not to drink a five bucket at a time is not enough, but a bucket of wine according to the current unit of measurement, about a hundred pounds, the five buckets is five hundred pounds, Li Bai originally made a big fuss, saying that he drank less than three hundred glasses of wine at a time, which is not enough, but what about Liu Ling? People drink five hundred pounds at a time! What is not a drinking maniac? And he also said to the gods, my wife's words are women's words, and I must not listen to them! Isn't that what is obsessed with alcohol? There is also an allusion to this incident later: "'Five buckets to relieve the sauce'".
The reason why Liu Ling indulged in alcohol
The reason why Liu Ling avoided the world was mentioned above: it was because he did not want to be an official, but he did not want to be an official at the beginning, and as mentioned above, he once gave Wang Rong a job of joining the army, which shows that he is not resistant to being an official! But when the Western Jin Dynasty was just established, he did not dare to be an official! Why? Because not long after the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, how fragile the newly established regime is, if one is not good, it may be finished, if you go to the imperial court to become an official, you are taking sides.
However, if the regime is destroyed, he is an official of the former dynasty, the object of hatred by the new regime, and if he kills chickens for the monkeys in order to establish a threat to the new dynasty, he will definitely be the first candidate! So he was worried and afraid, because he was worried about the political instability, and once he stood in the wrong line, he would have to cause trouble to his wife and children!
And not only Liu Ling. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, many people who were wandering skeletons had this idea, and they were afraid that they would take a chaotic stand and bring misfortune! He had to cloak himself with wine, with madness, with unruly behavior, so that the people of the authorities would not pay attention to themselves. Or to say that he is packaged as a complete madman and a mediocre, so as to scare off the court's recruitment, save his own life, and also save the life of his family, but it is just a way to save his life in the chaotic world! It is no different from the practice of hermits such as Tao Yuanming, returning to the countryside and living in the landscape! It is a helpless act in a chaotic world! Otherwise, how could it be that not long after the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were so many crazy people recorded in the "New Language of the World"?