The world's first drunkard: he was pushed into a large wine tank by his wife, and he actually drank the wine three days later

The world's first drunkard: he was pushed into a large wine tank by his wife, and he actually drank the wine three days later

Liu Ling, one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" during the Wei and Jin dynasties. He was "six feet long and very ugly... He was silent and did not make friends with each other" (see the Biography of Liu Ling of jin), who served as a member of the army in the shogunate of The Jianwei general Wang Rong. In the early years of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Ling entered the dynasty, but he had a frank personality, a straightforward temperament, a strong self-opinion, and did not tend to be inflammatory, which was not tolerated by the imperial court, and his colleagues were promoted to high officials one by one, but he was expelled from the court. In order to excrete depression, he often used wine to dispel his sorrows, and over time, he was drunk as he was destined to die, unable to help himself, and eventually became a drunken person who enjoyed his fame by drinking alcohol.

In the second year of emperor Tai of the Jin Dynasty (266 AD), the imperial court sent a special envoy to ask Liu Ling to join the court again as an official. At this time, Liu Ling was already discouraged and lazy, and he was unwilling to become an official again. Hearing that the special envoy of the imperial court had arrived at the mouth of the village, Liu Ling drank heavily, quickly drunk himself, and then, stripping off his clothes, deliberately ran naked towards the mouth of the village. When the envoys of the imperial court saw Liu Ling's situation, they thought that he was a drunkard. From then on, Liu Ling was completely insulated from the imperial court.

Liu Ling, who was light without an official, drank every day, drunk every day, took pleasure in drinking, and often drank heavily for several days. When Liu Ling went out, the big bags and small bags were full of wine, drinking and drinking as he walked, and let people follow behind with a shovel, instructing people: "If I am drunk and die, bury me on the spot." ”

Liu Ling's wife saw that he was drunk like crazy, and he tried to persuade him, Liu Ling said: "Let me quit drinking, but I can't always make up my mind, I can only borrow the power of the ghost god, you go to buy wine and meat to worship the ghost god!" The wife was very happy to hear this, and immediately prepared a wine dish, asking Liu Ling to swear to the ghost god, who knew that Liu Ling wished in front of the god: "Born Liu Ling, in the name of wine, drink one drink and one huo, five buckets to dissolve the sauce." Do not listen to the words of the woman! "After saying that, I took the wine and meat and drank it wildly, and in an instant, I was drunk like mud."

One day, the wife brewed a large vat of wine, Liu Ling saw and wanted to drink, the wife said: "After the wine is ripe, let you drink enough." After the wine was ripe, Liu Ling rushed to open the lid of the wine, and could not help but lean over to drink, and his wife pushed him into the wine tank, and then pressed the lid and said: "This time I told you to drink enough!" Three days later, Liu Ling's wife listened to the silence in the cylinder, hurriedly opened the cylinder lid, found that the wine in the cylinder had reached the bottom, Liu Ling sat on the lees with her head hanging down, the wife thought that Liu Ling was dead, and she was anxious to shout loudly, who knew that Liu Ling slowly raised her head, smiled and said to her wife: "Didn't you promise me to let me get drunk?" Why do you sit here now? His wife laughed and knew that she could not get him to quit drinking, so she had to let him get drunk day by day.

Liu Ling had a broad temperament, was not bound by etiquette, often got drunk, stripped off his clothes, and drank naked in the house while dangling. According to records such as "The New Language of the World" and "Ancient and Modern Laughter", once, Liu Ling was drunk again, and a person was tossing and turning in the room naked. At this time, someone came to visit, and when they saw him like this, they repeatedly ridiculed him for being unorthodox, and Liu Ling did not think so, and his drunken eyes rolled over and said: "I take heaven and earth as the building and the house as the trousers." What are the kings in my pants? "This means that I like to use heaven and earth as a house, and house as clothing, so how did you get into my crotch?" After the visitors listened, they were dumbfounded, their faces were red, and they snatched the door and fled.

Liu Ling drank for a lifetime, drunk for a lifetime, drunk as fate, indulged in alcohol, known for its good drinking, heavy drinking, known as the "drunken star" of ancient China; its alcohol, wine morality, drunken madness are a must, people give the nickname "the world's first drunkard", "drinking altar Beidou". Liu Ling advocated the learning of Lao Zhuang, "teaching more than the name and letting nature go", wine and meat through the intestines, moral heart retention, and finally ended drinking, lived for eighty years, in the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" is the longest life.