Liu Ling at the time of the Wei and Jin dynasties was a famous drunkard in the history of Chinese wine culture. This old brother is ugly, only more than 1.5 meters tall, but he can enter the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" headed by the handsome brother Ji Kang, and he has a very thick friendship with them. Ji Kang was the spiritual leader of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, seven feet and eight inches long, about 1.88 meters now, with a unique style, he collected medicine in the mountains, and the woodcutters thought they had met the gods when they saw him. Liu Ling was able to talk with these people, mainly in spiritual communication.
Liu Sifen painted Liu Ling indulgence map
The "Biography of Liu Ling in the Book of Jin" says that Liu Ling often drove a car pulled by a sika deer, followed by two servants, and Liu Ling said to them: "If you die, you will bury me." "That is to say, he is buried wherever he dies." You see, what a casual person. In the era of white terror at the time of Wei and Jin, this kind of normal death was also a "rare and complete Wei and Jin celebrity" that many people could not pursue, which is the case. Mr. Yi Zhongtian said: "Perhaps, Liu Ling has clearly realized that no matter how he spends his life, he will eventually die. So why bother where to go, where to die and where to bury? Similarly, since life has no meaning, why not live as much as you want? In fact, this is also Liu Ling's way of dealing with the world. He did not openly confront the Sima regime like Ji Kang, nor did he seek perfection like Ruan Zhi, but talked about nothingness when he was recruited, making the rulers feel useless. Therefore, Liu Ling's final end was the end of his life. ”
Chinese painting "Deer Car Pieces Buried Liu Ling"
Liu Ling was able to become a famous drunkard in the history of Chinese culture, and the two stories of him recorded in the "New Language of the World" are indispensable. One is that Liu Ling was drinking naked in the house, and some people laughed at him, but he said: "I treat heaven and earth as a house, and I treat the house as pants, how did the princes run into my crotch?" "It's ridiculous.
Portrait of Liu Ling brick of the Southern Dynasty
Another story is that he fell ill from drinking too much and felt very thirsty, so he asked his wife for a drink. His wife spilled the wine, smashed the wine vessel, cried and persuaded him, saying: "You drink too much, this is not a way to maintain health, you must quit drinking!" Liu Ling said, "Okay." But I can't quit drinking myself, I have to pray to the ghosts and swear to quit drinking. You're going to prepare a toast for me." The wife said, "I'll do it." So he offered wine and vegetables before God and asked Liu Ling to pray and swear. Liu Ling knelt down and said, "I was born Liu Ling, and wine is my destiny." Drink one at a time, five buckets to eliminate alcoholism. The words of the woman must not be heeded. "After saying that, I picked up the wine and meat and ate and drank, and I was drunk. You see, Liu Ling is Liu Ling, in order to drink so cheated on his wife, put on the shelf, his wife has to divorce him.
Liu Ling toast picture
Later generations have compared Liu Ling with Li Bai, and Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty once had a poem: "Liu Ling is a good wine in the world, and Li Bai rides a whale to fly to the sky", mainly focusing on the point where the two are drunk. The relationship between ancient literati and wine is very close, Li Baidou wine hundreds of poems, even the female lyricist Li Qingzhao is always inseparable from wine, Liu Ling is a drunkard among drunkards. There are only two surviving works by Liu Ling, one of which is "Ode to Wine Virtue", and he believes that drinking wine is virtuous.
Yuan Zhao Mengfu Xingshu · "Ode to Wine"
Now we can't live without wine, drink wine must also have wine morality, abide by wine etiquette, drink moderately, can not become an alcoholic or the like!
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