When it comes to wine, we are no strangers. Friends and relatives get together without alcohol. If there is no wine at the wedding ceremony, there seems to be something missing, and so does the shopping mall. Talking about business also needs wine to enhance feelings. People who can drink are more comfortable in business than those who can't.

Of course, wine is not only remembered on special occasions. For people who like to drink, they can drink by themselves even if no one else is present.

Wine, is it delicious?

For those who don't like drinking, they will resolutely answer: no, but for those who like drinking, wine is the best drink.

Sometimes, if you want to cure your inner pain, wine is more useful than any medicine.

In ancient times, there were not a few ancient people who liked drinking, especially some literati, who could not do without drinking at all. A hip flask at the waist became the standard of these literati.

For example, Li Bai, the great poet we are most familiar with, wrote many of his excellent works after drinking, which can really be called "with me, three hundred bowls, one mouthful!" I hope I will never wake up after being drunk, but compared with celebrities in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Li Bai's love for wine is still slightly inferior.

This man's name is Liu Ling.

People who like drinking may be familiar with this name. After all, there is a famous wine brewed by the traditional "Laowuzan" process and included in the first batch of Chinese time-honored brands, called Liu Lingzui, and the origin of this name is because it has an indissoluble bond with Liu Ling.

At first glance, people who don't like drinking seem to be unfamiliar with this name, but if there were seven sages of bamboo forest in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the name will be loud and clear, and Liu Ling is one of the seven sages of bamboo forest called by Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Dan Tao, Xiang Embroidery, Wang Rong and Ruan Xian.

Liu Ling is an alcoholic. He was kicked into the jar by his angry wife and didn't come home for three days. But when he got home, his wife collapsed after seeing Liu Ling and the wine can.

What the hell is going on here? Let's take a look together.

Liu Ling: What's the use of being an official? Drinking is the beauty of life. Among the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest, Liu Ling is the one with the lowest social status, and his height is as low as his social status. Historical records show that he is only six feet tall. According to the ancient measurement history of China, one foot in Han Dynasty is now 23.5 cm, and the measuring ruler should not change much in Wei and Jin Dynasties. In other words, Liu Ling's height is only 65,433.

There is an ancient saying that length is beauty. Take Zou Ji, a handsome man in the Warring States Period, for example. He is eight feet (188cm), which is quite high even now.

Therefore, Liu Ling's height of less than 1.5 meters was extremely unpopular at that time. In addition, Liu Ling's appearance is extremely ugly. Most importantly, Liu Ling is poor, or she is penniless. The combination of short stature, ugliness and poverty is the most appropriate description of Liu Ling.

Now, if you have such a person around you, will you make friends with him? I think most people will answer directly: No, but fortunately, Liu Ling has friends. His friends are Ruan Ji and Ji Kang. They used to travel together and were really happy.

Ugly people need to read more books, and Liu Ling has read a lot, so he can be among the celebrities and become an official after studying well. But Liu Ling used to be an official, but when he was an official, he advocated inaction. He didn't care about his political career and achievements. Later, he was dismissed for inaction.

Liu Ling: I take heaven and earth as my building and my room as my clothes. Why did you come into my house? It doesn't matter to Liu Ling when she is not an official. For Liu Ling, it doesn't matter whether the family has money or not. For Liu Ling, it is not important for others to look at themselves with strange eyes.

Liu Ling's only concern is whether there is wine to drink. He is so addicted to alcohol that he can even skip meals. As long as there is wine, it is enough. Wherever Liu Ling goes, he takes a pot of wine and drinks it everywhere. He even had people follow him with shovels. He also said to others: If I am drunk, just bury me.

This dissolute thought, in addition to Liu Ling, may never find a second person. When Liu Ling is drunk, he also likes to take off his clothes and stay in the house, even if there are outsiders. Of course, Liu Ling's behavior will naturally be laughed at by ordinary people, but Liu Ling doesn't care. Once others laughed at Liu Ling, Liu Ling said drunkenly:

I treat heaven and earth as a house and a house as pants. Why did you get into my pants?

When you really make others speechless, think about it, too. How can you reason with such an alcoholic? Besides, even if you reason with him, it doesn't make sense.

Speaking of Liu Ling's undressing, I have to say another thing, that is, after Liu Ling was dismissed from office, the court wanted to re-enable him, but Liu Ling was disgusted. In order not to be an official, he got as drunk as a fiddler before the arrival of the imperial envoy, and then took off his clothes and ran away. When the envoy saw it, Liu Ling was restored as a drunken madman, and the court gave up the idea of recruiting him.

Liu Ling: Since I was put in the jar, I never go out again. Liu Ling has many shortcomings. It is difficult to find a wife now, but at that time, Liu Ling also became a family. Liu Ling's wife must be very helpless to marry such a person.

After all, Liu Ling can't live without wine, but she gets drunk when she drinks it. Excessive drinking will damage her health. If she drinks too much, she will need someone to take care of her. What makes his wife angry even more is that people who drink too much are thirsty and want to drink water, but Liu Ling keeps pouring wine for his wife. His wife is very angry. She always pours Liu Ling's wine and even breaks Liu Ling's hip flask many times.

But none of this can stop Liu Ling from drinking. For the convenience of drinking, Liu Ling also prepared a large barrel of wine at home. When there is no wine in the hip flask, Liu Ling will go to play. Once, his wife looked at Liu Ling who was drinking and was very angry. She walked behind Liu Ling and kicked him into the jar. Then she slammed the door angrily and went back to her parents' house.

My wife didn't come home for three days in a row, and then she was afraid that something would happen to Liu Ling, so she went home. As a result, at the moment she opened the door, she cried with anger, because Liu Ling fell asleep comfortably in the wine jar, and the wine in the wine jar had been finished by Liu Ling.

Maybe the moment he was kicked into the jar, Liu Ling thought not of his wife's anger, but that he had a new way of drinking. Who can resist such a Liu Ling?

As Mr Yi Zhongtian once said:

Perhaps, Liu Ling has clearly realized that no matter how she spends her life, she will eventually die, so why not go where she went and bury her where she died? Similarly, since life is meaningless, why not live according to what you want?

And Liu Ling died well in the end, which was better than Ji Kang, Xiang Xiu and others. Isn't this the way of life in Liu Ling?

How many people can understand Liu Ling?

References: Jin Shu, Shi Shuo Xin Yu, China Dictionary of Names in Past Dynasties, etc.

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