Liu Ling is so ugly, super ugly! But he's also super famous. It's not that he is famous for being ugly, but because he loves wine, and he is so fascinated and nervous. Liu Ling once held a jar of wine, and drove the deer cart alone to drink wherever he wanted, anyway, he looked ugly, and he didn't have to worry about his car being smashed out of the hole by the girls with flowers and fruits. He also asked people to follow him with shovels on their backs: when they drank to death, they dug a pit on the spot and buried it.

Liu Ling has not made much achievements in politics, and has served as an honorary general with a title: General Jianwei. In the early years of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, he engaged in post assessment, Liu Ling would not distinguish his appearance and color when he took the exam, and in front of the Sima family, who had a long tradition of governing the name and law, he talked about recuperation and inaction, and naturally he did not pass, and even the honorary title was taken away in a few days. Originally, Liu Ling and the name "Jianwei" were not very compatible, and the history books recorded that he was six feet long, and he looked more sorry for the audience, so naturally he couldn't "Jianwei".

I had to drink. Liu Ling drank lonely, freely, and proudly. At that time, some people looked down on him as a person who could only drink. I asked him, "What kind of body are you when you only drink, and you are promiscuous, and you don't wear clothes?" Liu Ling sang while knocking on the wine jar and drinking wildly, elated, and the fugue was too empty. He was not provoked by these words, and replied with a lighthearted and cheerful answer: I use the sky as my clothes, and my house as my trousers, but why do you want to get into my crotch?

Liu Ling's wit makes him ugly and congenitally deficient, but he has a place in the "Tolerance" chapter of "The World Speaks New Words", which focuses on handsome guys. Liu Yiqing edited "The World Speaks New Words", although most of the characters in the Rongzhi chapter are Wei Jue and Wang Gong who look like willows on a spring night, but he attaches more importance to people's temperament. In order to show this, the first story of the Rongzhi chapter is that Cao Cao saw the Xiongnu envoy, afraid that he would be ugly and lose face, so he asked Cui Yan, the beautiful man at that time, to pretend to be him, and he pretended to be a knife guard behind Cui Yan. After the Xiongnu envoys left, Cao Cao sent people to inquire about his impression of the King of Wei. The Xiongnu envoy said that the king of Wei Yawang was very much, but the person who caught the knife at the head of the bed was a hero in the world.

Zhuangzi described a lame and hunchbacked ugly man mourning it in "De Chong Fu". Men don't want to leave when they see it, and women want to marry when they see it. The reason for this is that he mourns it in harmony but does not flow, and is as faint as a drunken man, who does not take the initiative to help the hungry, nor points out the evil of the wicked, but makes people respect him, thinking that good and evil are in his heart.

It can be seen that it is a disaster for a woman to be ugly, and no matter how ugly a man is, he can be called temperamental.

Liu Ling's temperament and wine are inseparable, only the kind of ethereal, real, fearless and indifferent attitude to life brought by wine makes him like a fairy who wants to do what others want to do but dare not do, because he can't do it because he looks forward and backwards. They all love to watch "Zhuangzi", so they are more and more like the people described by Zhuangzi. Liu Ling's purity and Zhuangzi's pursuit of "truth" have something in common. The so-called truth, goodness and beauty are really the premise of everything, when a person is pure, of course, he can be fluttering, no matter how long he looks, sorry for the audience, he can win thousands of fans.

Among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, Ji Kang was too high and caused to be killed, and Wang Rong was too humble to be despised by future generations. However, Liu Ling, who is the most obscure, retains the nobility and humility of Zhuangzi. He lived a life with wine as a companion, and to this day, you still don't know what his heart is like. Zhuangzi said, "To man without self, God without merit, saint without name." A true hermit, you will never know his name.

Some people say that among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, Liu Ling is an analogy of Ruan, and they all chose to feint because they were disheartened by the darkness of politics during the Wei, Jin, and Chan dynasties, but he was not as clever as Ruan: he had no songs left, and no poems to pass down. However, not everyone cares about politics, and not every alcoholic is the product of helplessness.

There are disappointments in reality in every era, no matter how peaceful the era is: isn't Li Bai, who was born in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, disappointed? Of course, Liu Ling was disappointed, but his disappointment was no less than that of ordinary people at that time, but not more than ordinary people at that time. Liu Ling's dependence on alcohol is a kind of solace in the instinct of life, which allows him to temporarily escape the disturbance of the changing world, and in a short moment he really becomes a primitive creature itself, detached from the pain of the essence of existence.

At this point, Nietzsche understood Liu Ling. Nietzsche said that when the urge for alcohol in a person's body spreads indefinitely, his political instinct will be weakened day by day, until he becomes indifferent to politics and even hostile to it. As far as Liu Ling can see, talented people who are keen on politics, from the party members in the late Han Dynasty to He Yan and Xiahou Xuan, who are engaged in the reform of the system, have no good end! Politics is a meat grinder, why does he have to jump into it? Some people pretend to be crazy with wine, some people use wine to kill their sorrows, but few people really appreciate wine. Liu Ling loves wine, but it is a legitimate pursuit of the desire for survival and the happiness of survival contained in the wine itself.

Wine does not disappoint Liu Ling, it is the best partner in his expansive life. He personified it, and even built his own life aesthetics entirely on the aesthetics of wine. Wine is not a negative tool to dispel sorrow, it brings excitement and inspiration, and brings the pure and refined creation of life.

Liu Ling's best article is "Ode to Wine Virtue":

There are adults and gentlemen, with heaven and earth as one day, ten thousand dynasties as a moment, the sun and the moon as the barrier, and the eight wildernesses as the court. There is no trace, there is no room, the curtain is on the ground, and the indulgence is as it is. If you stop, you will be obsessed, and if you move, you will carry the pot, only the wine is the business, and you don't know the rest?

There is a noble son, a gentleman, who hears my rumors and discusses why. It is to fight hard, gnashing his teeth angrily, and talking about etiquette, right and wrong. Mr. Fang then held the poppy trough and gargled the mash with a cup. Hard-working, pillow koji is bad, thoughtless, and happy. Drunk and awake. Listen quietly and do not hear the sound of thunder, do not see the shape of Mount Tai, do not feel the cold and heat of the muscles, the feelings of desire. Looking down on all things, disturbing is like duckweed carried by Jiang and Han; The two heroes are sideways, such as moths and moths.

This regards heaven and earth as a dynasty, all the changes of dynasties in the world are sudden, lying in the doors and windows built by the sun and the moon, with the mountains and rivers of the world as the courtyard of the adult Mr. seems to be Liu Ling's self-proclaimed, he takes heaven and earth as his house, there is no definite trace, and the line is accompanied by the pot. In Wang Xizhi's words, it is precisely to "be happy to die here".

Liu Ling writes longitudinally, and between the elegant words is the fearless rush of drunkenness, the contempt for all the rules of the world at the time of extreme excitement of the spirit and the extreme chaos of the body, and the pride of Liu Ling who is the only one left in heaven and earth. So he pointed out the country, knocked on the bowl of side dishes and the jar of wine, and completely ignored the two people who came to criticize him.

In front of this man who has forgotten time, is not surprised by the sound of thunder, and does not respect the majesty of Mount Tai, the natural cold and heat cannot disturb his senses, and people's desires cannot affect his behavior. It's just like a little bug.

"Ode to Wine Virtue" is a love letter written by Liu Ling to wine: it is not to praise how good you are, but that we are one and have long been inseparable.

Liu Ling's infatuation with wine finally annoyed his wife. She threw his wine jar and cried, made trouble and hanged herself. In short, he must quit drinking, otherwise he will not be able to live this life. Liu Ling said helplessly, okay, quit it. But I want food and drinks to worship the gods, so that they can bless me, an old drunkard, to quit drinking. Seeing that Liu Ling had a good attitude in confessing her guilt, his wife happily prepared good wine and food for him, and snorted at him, saying, hurry up and pray.

Liu Ling obediently knelt in front of the gods, and said seriously, "Liu Ling was born, in the name of wine, one drink and one drink, five buckets to relieve drunkenness." Beware of the woman's words. So he picked up the wine for God and drank it all, and when his wife wanted to get mad, Liu Ling was already drunk and lying in front of the statue.

It's interesting to say, Ji Kang, who is a fellow villager in Suzhou, Anhui Province with Liu Ling, chose a completely different life path from Liu Ling. Liu Ling can't be annoyed if she can see through it, but Ji Kang can't help it. It's just that Ji Kang was about to be executed, looking back at the sunset, and Liu Lingxun's "Ode to Wine and Virtue", which became a masterpiece of classical Chinese aesthetics with their admiration for the beauty of personality and personality.