How to relieve worries? Only Du Kang. There are so many images of wine in ancient poetry, so let’s talk about some “alcoholic” poets!
Who are the ancient alcoholic poets?
Most of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest love to drink. There are stories of people drinking with pigs.
Tao Yuanming, an outstanding poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, liked to drink, but because his family was poor, he could not often buy drinks. One year during the Double Ninth Festival, he was deeply distressed because he had no wine to drink, so he went to pick flowers under the chrysanthemum fence next to his house. , and sat under the chrysanthemum fence for a long time. At this time, Wang Hong, the governor of Jiangzhou, sent a white-clothed official officer to bring wine. He happily walked over, picked up the wine, and drank until he was drunk. After that, someone else helped him. Go home.
Li Bai, wine appears many times in his poems.
Liu Yong hangs out in Yanliuhua Lane and never leaves his body while drinking.
The Nine Most Famous Drunkards in Chinese History
Liquor ranks first in terms of sex, wealth and fortune. According to legend, liquor was invented by Du Kang during the Zhou Dynasty. However, Du Kang was not an alcoholic. He used wine to make money from alcoholics. There are more than nine drunkards in Chinese history, but those with the most anecdotes and the most famous names are the following.
Kong Rong
Everyone knows the story of Kong Rong Rangli, but not many people know that Kong Rong was an alcoholic. It is said that before the Han Dynasty, people drank wine casually. It was not until the founding of Liu Bang that Xiao He legislated a ban on alcohol. Since then, every dynasty in the past dynasties has banned alcohol to save food every time the harvest was bad. When alcohol was not prohibited, everyone drank freely and it was impossible to tell who was an alcoholic. As soon as the prohibition was issued, everyone else stopped drinking. Only the drunkards were still drinking, which made them stand out from the crowd. Cao Cao was a bit panicked about food. When food was scarce, he issued a ban on alcohol. Most people have to restrain themselves no matter how much they want to drink at this time, but Kong Rong didn't do that. He directly wrote a letter to Cao Cao, and wrote a long paragraph with great literary talent. Kong Rong's venomous words finally angered Cao Cao and killed Kong Rong's entire family. When Kong Rong died, he lamented, "Too much talking will lead to failure." It can be seen that he never understood that if he drank too much and his mouth was not controlled by his brain nerves, how could he talk so much nonsense?
Zheng Quan
It is generally believed that northerners drink better than southerners. However, among the drunkards in the Three Kingdoms era, there was Kong Rong in the north, but there was a drunkard in the south who was better than him. , that is Zheng Quan, a native of Wu.
Zheng Quan is known as "the strange man in wine". Brother Zheng Quan hopes that he can have a ship loaded with five hundred dendrobiums of fine wine. There are his favorite dishes on both sides of the ship, so that he can drink as much as he wants anytime, anywhere, and the wine will not be reduced. Drink one dou to make up for each dou. Drink one liter and add another liter, it will be filled up automatically, and the five hundred dendrobiums will always be in the best condition. Zheng Quan's speaking level was much higher than Kong Rong's. He served as a doctor under Sun Quan and often gave Sun Quan advice. Not only did he drink every day when he was alive, but he also hoped that after his death, his bones would turn into soil and be lucky enough to be made into a wine pot, so that he could be soaked in wine forever. Life and death would be inseparable from wine! His persistence in drinking is truly astonishing.
Tao Yuanming
I am drunk and want to sleep, please go away. This is the famous saying of Tao Yuanming, a big drunkard. Tao Yuanming was a drinker in his life. He liked to bring others to his home to drink. Once he got drunk first, , and said: "I'm drunk and want to sleep, please go."
When Tao Yuanming was serving as Peng Zeling, he said, "How can I bow down to a village boy for five buckets of rice!" After that, he resigned angrily and went into seclusion. Never made a comeback. When Tao Yuanming had wine to drink, he and a group of friends went to drink and have fun at the foot of Huzhao Cliff at the southern foot of Mount Lu, two miles away. Day after day, the middle of the stone actually dented, leaving pillow marks. Therefore, this stone was named drunken stone. Tao Yuanming drank too much in his life. He had nothing to do, but his five sons were all a little stupid. This may be the sequelae of Tao Yuanming's drinking.
Liu Ling
Dukang made wine and Liu Ling was drunk. We cannot talk about drunkards without talking about Liu Ling. Liu Ling was from Anhui and one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. He admired the thoughts of Lao and Zhuang. Liu Ling often rides in a deer cart with wine on it. He follows the cart wherever it goes. There is a man behind him carrying a shovel. His duty is to bury Liu Ling when he drinks to death. Liu Ling likes to strip naked and run around naked while drinking.
Liu Ling is famous for his poems and essays, but none of his works have been handed down from generation to generation. Only an ode to wine is famous. Mr. Liu Ling was not famous when he was alive, but became a celebrity after his death. Some people praised him: "I was drunk all my life, how can I be sad forever." People in the world love wine, maybe because the reality is too cruel, so only in wine can there be a paradise. But even if you can feel no sorrow when you are drunk, what will you do when you wake up?
Ruan Ji
Ruan Ji heard that there were three hundred barrels of wine in the cellar of the infantry camp, so he took the initiative to apply to be an infantry captain. He drank every day and left after drinking, so everyone called him He is a Ruan infantryman. The proprietress of the hotel near Ruan Ji's home was a well-known beauty. Ruan Ji went to drink when he had nothing to do. After drinking, he didn't leave. Wherever the proprietress was sitting, he lay down next to her and fell asleep. Ruan Ji, like Liu Ling, likes to drink in cars, wherever he goes, and when he gets emotional, he gets out of the car and cries. Although Ruan Ji did not do anything as an official and did not follow etiquette and laws, he still lived a peaceful life and became a happy drunkard.
Wang Ji
Wang Ji, also known as Wu Gong, calls himself Dong Gaozi and Mr. Wu Dou. Wang Ji, a native of Shanxi in the Tang Dynasty, was very famous for his five-character poems and was recognized by later generations as the founder of five-character verse. Moreover, Wang Ji was quite knowledgeable. He was good at playing the piano. He once adapted the piano piece "Landscape Exercises" and he was also good at fortune-telling. He is a very well-rounded alcoholic.
Wang Ji's family had sixteen hectares of land and several slaves. He and his family grew grain and made wine, raised livestock, and collected herbs. They lived a happy life. After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, when his boss Chen Shuda heard that his job was wine, he gave him three liters to make it a dou. Wang Ji stopped talking and kept drinking every day. Everyone admired his persistence in drinking and called him "Bachelor of Drinking."
Bizhuo
Jin Bizhuo publicly announced that his life ideal is to "hold a wine glass in his right hand, a crab claw in his left hand, and swim in a floating wine boat, which is enough for a lifetime." Because of this In one sentence, Bidro became a celebrity.
When Bi Zhuo was working as an official, he went to his neighbor's house to drink secretly at night and tied him up with a rope. At dawn, the neighbor saw him and let him go, apologizing profusely. Bi Zhuo said: Thank you for letting me smell the aroma of wine all night. If you feel embarrassed, just let me get some wine and go back to drink. To this day, there is still a couplet among the people to encourage drinking: "If Bi Li gets drunk next to the urn, he will immediately help Li Taibai back to his home." Bi Zhuo's stolen wine has also become one of the folk tales.
Huaisu
Huaisu is a monk. He never meditates, eats meat, gets drunk, travels around, and writes in cursive. I have been doing these four things my whole life. Even when I sleep, I only sleep because I am drunk. Huai Su is quite good at calligraphy. He didn't chant sutras and polluted everyone's water sources, so he was quickly fired.
Huaisu returned home and began to practice calligraphy. Huaisu liked to write cursive script and could not afford paper, so he planted more than 10,000 banana plants. Finally, he wrote down his grades and his pen became bald. Huaisu buried these things together and called it "Bi Zhong".
When people asked him to write, they would invite him to drink. Huaisu claimed that "drinking drinks to nourish one's nature, and cursive writing smoothes one's mind." At that time, almost all the famous families prepared fine banquets and invited Huai Su to their homes to entertain him warmly. Huai Su had nothing else to ask for, and he didn't need any appetizers, just a few glasses of wine.
Huaisu eventually became the representative figure of Kuangcao, the Drunken Monk Huaisu, and thus became famous in the world of calligraphy and wine throughout the ages.
Li Bai
Li Bai wrote hundreds of poems. He went to sleep in a restaurant in Chang'an City, but the emperor couldn't come on board the ship. He claimed that he was a wine immortal.
In history, Li Bai was called the Master of Wine. This was not because of Li Bai’s drinking capacity, but because Li Bai was so famous for his poetry. Legend has it that Li Bai recited a couplet of poems with the county magistrate. Suddenly a female corpse floated upstream, and everyone on the shore screamed loudly. The county magistrate twirled his beard, laughed and recited a poem: Whose daughter is this? Floating to the bank and leaning against the reeds. Birds peep at the green on their brows, and fish see the red at the side of their mouths.
The county magistrate thought that he had finally defeated Li Bai once, but when he looked back, he saw that Li Bai had already left. Later, Li Bai learned what happened, found the bully, and avenged the girl. According to historical records, Li Bai once killed several people, and this was one of them. From then on, Li Bai went to the country with his sword and traveled around the world.
After traveling around for more than ten years, he finally made a name for himself. When Li Bai drank, he looked down upon no one and dared to ask Gao Lishi to take off his boots. He was admitted to the Imperial Academy by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. However, this job had a nice name, but it was actually about composing poems for the emperor's amusement. Li Bai simply got drunk every day and showed his madness. Finally, he was fired and returned to his civilian status.