Forty years old, drunkards occasionally write articles.
If you forget everything when you are drunk, can you remember my year again? ("Chuzhou Drunk Pavilion")
Is calling yourself "drunken man" just a reason for "chatting with the opera" and "occasional articles" Isn't there any meaning in this?
Ouyang Xiu was also named a "six-year-old layman". He once explained: "There are 1,000 ancient books, 10,000 books, a piano, a chess plate, a pot of wine and an old man, hence the name' six-year-old layman'. As can be seen from this nickname, the number of "6 1 laity" is actually the same as the number of "drunkards", giving people a sense of overlap.
Ouyang Xiu wrote The Preface to Drunk Pavilion at the age of 1046, that is, when he was 39 years old, why did he take the title of "Weng" in his prime? In combination with the above, Ouyang Xiu was demoted politically, and his heart was inevitably full of depression. At this time, wine became a good medicine to relieve his troubles, and drunkenness became a way for him to forget his frustration. So he is particularly sensitive to "wine", especially to "drunkenness". The word "drunk" reflects his loss and pain of entertaining landscapes, letting go of his feelings with wine and getting drunk. At the same time, behind Weng's self-mockery, there is a sigh and regret that his achievements have not been built and the years have passed.