Liu Ling (year of birth and death unknown), the word Bolun, Peiguo (now Huaibei, Anhui) people. Famous people in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Liu Ling is a drunkard, with a heroic drinking style, known as the "drunken marquis", a good old Zhuang Zhixue, and Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Shan Tao, Xiang Xiu, Wang Rong and Ruan Xian are called the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", and is also the one with the lowest social status in the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest". As a member of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, he was addicted to alcohol and once issued "I take heaven and earth as my building, and my house as my robe, why do you enter my robe?" Heroic words.

Liu Ling once joined the army under the shogunate of Wang Rong, the general of Jianwei, and tried his best to advocate the rule of inaction, and was dismissed for inaction. In the second year of Taishi (266), the imperial court invited Liu Ling to enter the court again as an official, but Liu Ling refused because he was unwilling to continue to be an official, and finally died.

The only surviving works of Liu Ling today are "Ode to Wine Virtue" and "Poems of Beimang Guesthouse". His works vividly reflect the spiritual outlook of the Wei and Jin Dynasty celebrities advocating mystery, passivity and decadence, and also show their contempt for the "famous religion" etiquette and yearning for nature.

Liu Ling is six feet tall (less than one meter five) and has a very ugly appearance. Unbridled sentimentality, often in the universe to reconcile all things as the intention, never indiscriminately interact with people, taciturn, indifferent to human feelings, only with Ruan Ji, Ji Kang has a very good relationship, when they meet, they talk and laugh, very speculative, hand in hand to travel the landscape, for whether there is a family property at all.

In the early years of Taishi (265), Liu Ling served as a member of the army under the shogunate of Wang Rong, a general of Jianwei. After the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, he participated in countermeasures and tried his best to advocate the rule of inaction. People of the same generation were all promoted because of their excellent assessments, but Liu Ling was dismissed because of inaction.

In the second year of Taishi (266), the imperial court sent a special envoy to invite Liu Ling to enter the court again as an official. Liu Ling didn't want to be an official, and when she heard that the imperial envoy had arrived at the entrance of the village, she quickly drunk herself, then stripped naked and ran naked towards the entrance of the village. When the imperial envoy saw Liu Ling, he felt that he was a drunken madman. In the end, he died at home.

Liu Ling is a good old man, does not follow the rules of etiquette in life, drinks as a norm, and even reaches the situation of sick alcohol, indulges in alcohol, and does some things beyond common sense. Compared with Ji Kang, Ruan Ji and others, who are also borrowing wine to escape the world and are "half-drunk and half-sober", they are even more shocking. His good wine, his sorrowful words, are manifested entirely through his own actions. At the beginning of Emperor Tai of the Jin Dynasty, he questioned the imperial court, emphasizing the rule of inaction, so that the rulers felt that they were useless. Liu Ling's "Ode to Wine Virtue", claiming that "only wine is business, and you know the rest", after he drank, let "drunk and buryed" and so on, on the surface, he is like a drunkard, in his bones is his advocating nature, "rule by doing nothing" concept of mental reproduction, are an expression of his independent personality and spirit of resistance, later generations to Liu Ling as a contempt for etiquette, indulge in alcohol to escape the world.

The pieces are buried

Liu Ling rarely speaks on weekdays, but drinks for pleasure. Liu Ling often rode in a deer cart, carrying wine, and ordered someone to follow him with a shovel, instructing, "If I am drunk to death, bury me on the spot." That's how he put life and death out of the way.

Liu Ling was sick and drunk

Liu Ling felt unwell due to excessive drinking, and felt extremely thirsty, so she begged his wife for a drink. His wife poured out the wine, destroyed the wine vessel, and cried and advised: "You drink too much, this is not a way to maintain health, you must quit drinking!" Liu Ling said: "Very good." But I couldn't stop myself, I could only pray to the demons and swear to quit my addiction. Prepare the meat for the sacrifice. The wife said, "I will do as you have told." So he offered wine and meat to God, and asked Liu Ling to pray and swear. Liu Ling knelt down and said, "I was born Liu Ling, and wine is my life." Drink one at a time, five buckets to eliminate alcohol disease. Do not listen to the words of a woman. After saying that, he picked up the wine and meat, ate and drank, and fell drunk.

One day, his wife made a large vat of wine, and Liu Ling saw that she wanted to drink it again, and her wife said, "When the wine is ripe, let you get drunk." The wine was ripe, his wife called Liu Ling to drink, Liu Ling excitedly opened the lid of the wine, the wine was fragrant, Liu Ling couldn't help but lean over and drink, his wife pushed him into the wine tank, then pressed the lid, and said angrily to Liu Ling in the tank: "This time you will drink enough!" Three days later, Liu Ling's wife heard the silence in the jar, hurriedly opened the cylinder head, and found that the wine in the jar had bottomed out, Liu Ling hung her head and sat on the lees, her wife thought Liu Ling was dead, so she was so anxious that she shouted loudly, who knew that Liu Ling slowly raised her head and said to her wife with a smile: "Didn't you promise me to let me get drunk?" Why do you want me to sit here now?" His wife laughed and laughed, knowing that she couldn't get him to quit drinking, so she had to let him get drunk for a long time.

Exposed as a house

Liu Ling has a broad temperament, willful and unrestrained, not bound by etiquette, often drunk, strips off her clothes, and sways naked in the house while drinking. One day, someone went to visit Liu Ling, and when he saw him like this, he couldn't stand it anymore and ridiculed him: "You are also a person in the religion, and it seems that such behavior is really unseemly." When Liu Ling heard this, she rolled her drunken eyes and said, "I take heaven and earth as my house and my house as my clothes, why did you run into my pants?" The guests were speechless.

Liu Ling once had an argument with someone when he was drunk, and the man grabbed his sleeve and punched him. Liu Ling said slowly: "I'm as thin as a chicken rib, and I can't make your fists fight comfortably." The man laughed and stopped fighting.

Gu Shuyun: "The number of good wines in the world is Du Kang, and the number of wines is Liu Ling." drank three cups of Du Kang wine, and drunk Liu Ling for three years. It is the story of "Du Kang made wine and drunk Liu Ling".

Liu Ling was one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" in the Jin Dynasty, famous for being a good drinker and able to drink. The amount of alcohol is unparalleled in the world. He was dissatisfied with the rule of the dynasty and traveled everywhere, drinking wherever he went. Once, Liu Ling came to the door of Dukang Wine Shop in Nanfudian Town, Longmen, Luoyang, and looked up to see a couplet on the door, which read:

"The tiger is drunk in the mountains, and the dragon sleeps on the bottom of the sea"

The horizontal batch is:

"Don't get drunk for three years, don't want money".

Liu Ling got angry when she saw this pair, and said in her heart: You haven't opened a tavern to visit first, who doesn't know that Liu Ling drinks a lot, from south to north, from east to west, southeast and northwest, and he didn't get me drunk for a long time. You dare to boast that you don't want money for three years without getting drunk.

I, a well-known wine fairy, have never eaten any wine, and I have never seen such a boast of Haikou. And let me drink all your wine, and see if you dare to go crazy?

Liu Ling entered the tavern with anger, and Du Kang took out the wine for him to drink. After drinking one cup and drinking it, Du Kang brought a second cup, and Liu Ling drank it after he drank it. Du Kang said, don't drink it, if you drink it again, you will get drunk, he didn't listen, and asked for a third cup. After three glasses of wine, Liu Ling said: "The first glass of wine is as sweet as honey, the second glass of wine is sweeter than honey, and after drinking three glasses of wine, I only feel that the sky is turning, the earth is also turning, and I am dizzy." He was drunk.

At this time, Du Kang came over and said to Liu Ling, "How is it?" Have you drunk enough, sir?" Liu Ling said drunkenly: "Enough, enough, it's really elixir." As he spoke, he took out the wine money in his pocket, and when he touched it, the money bag was empty, so he said hesitantly: "Shopkeeper, I forgot to bring the money, let's keep an account first, and return it to you another day."

Liu Ling said goodbye and walked back out of the wine shop. He staggered all the way to his home, and as soon as he entered the door, he fell to the ground, and his daughter-in-law hurriedly helped him to the bed. Liu Ling felt that she couldn't do it anymore, and quickly explained to her daughter-in-law: "I'm going to die, bury me in the wine pool, cover it with wine lees, and put the wine cup and wine jug in the coffin for me." After speaking; Liu Ling is really dead. He loved to drink all his life, and his daughter-in-law buried him according to his instructions.

Before I knew it, three years had passed. On this day, Du Kang came to the village to ask Liu Ling for wine money, and Liu Ling's daughter-in-law was very annoyed when she heard that this was the case, and said: "He didn't know whose wine he drank three years ago, and he died when he came back." I drank your wine! You're still asking for wine, and I'm going to have to ask for someone to ask for you!'

When Liu Ling's wife heard that Du Kang was coming to beg for wine money, she was angry and hateful, and stepped forward to pull Du Kang, crying and wanting to fight a life lawsuit with Du Kang.

Du Kang said: "He's not dead, he's drunk!" Take me to the place where he is buried. In this way, they came to the place where Liu Ling was buried, and when they opened the coffin, Liu Ling was neatly dressed, with a ruddy complexion, just like before her death. Du Kang stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder; shouted: "Liu Ling wake up!" Liu Ling wake up!"

Liu Ling's drunkenness has disappeared and she slowly woke up. He opened his sleepy eyes, stretched out his arms, yawned, blew out a snort of wine, and said proudly: "Good wine, it's so fragrant!"

Since then, the words "Du Kang fine wine, drunk for three years" have spread.

Of course, this is exaggerated folklore. But Du Kang wine does have the reputation of "opening the altar for ten miles, and drunk three next door".

The "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" refers to the seven famous scholars of the Jin Dynasty: Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Shan Tao, Liu Ling, Ruan Xian, Xiang Xiu and Wang Rong. They are uninhibited, often under the bamboo forest, singing and drinking.

One of the most famous drunkards was Liu Ling. Liu Ling said to herself: "Born Liu Ling, in the name of wine, one drink and one drink, five buckets to solve the drunk"; "Wine Book" tells that Liu Ling often carries a wine jug with him, rides a deer cart, drinks while walking, and follows the car with digging tools, when he dies, he buries it on the spot.

Ruan Xian drank even more shamelessly, every time he drank with the Zongren, he always served wine in a large basin, without a wine glass or a spoon of wine utensils, everyone sat around the wine bowl and drank with their hands in their hands. The pigs came to drink, not only did they not rush, but Ruan Xian also got together with the pigs to drink.

Liu Ling once wrote a poem "Ode to Wine Virtue", to the effect that he has no trace, no room, and the curtain is on the ground, and he indulges in whatever he wants, whether he stops or walks, he drinks with a wine glass at any time, but wine is a business, and he knows the rest. I don't care what other people say. The more others want to comment, the more they want to drink, drink alcohol and sleep, drunk over is also in a trance, in the silent place, is a thunder down, can not hear, in the face of Mount Tai blind, do not know the weather is hot and cold, do not know the world's desire feelings.

Liu Ling's poem fully reflects the mentality of the literati in the Jin Dynasty, that is, due to social turmoil and long-term division, the ruler's strict control of some literati made the literati have to use wine to drown their sorrows, or use alcohol to avoid trouble, and vent their dissatisfaction with current politics with drunken rhetoric.

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