The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
The Western Jin Dynasty was a magical dynasty. It didn't last long The second dynasty died alone and made no contribution to history. However, due to Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Dan Tao, Xiang Embroidery, Wang Rong, Ruan Xian, Liu Ling and other seemingly crazy seven sages in the bamboo forest, they are often mentioned by later generations and become a magical dynasty in people's eyes. Speaking of ethics, people can't help but be surprised at their contempt for ethics. They are also curious about their strange behavior and even moved by their literati character.
Liu Ling, the hero we are going to talk about today, is one of them. He is famous for his wine. what's up
Liu Ling is a heavy drinker and escapes from reality.
Although the Western Jin Dynasty was a unified country and the society was relatively stable, the newly established regimes all had one characteristic, that is, they were afraid of unrest and rebellion. After all, the regime is unstable, and the prime suspect is the senior officials and dignitaries of past dynasties. For example, Ji Kang, one of the seven sages of bamboo forest, became one of the primary targets because he married Cao Cao's granddaughter!
In addition, the newly established regime also likes to woo some celebrities and scholars in the society to be officials to show respect for the sages! For example, in the Qing Dynasty, for fear of Han Chinese rebelling, many learned scholars were set up to recruit those benevolent courts with high social standards to be officials, so as to appease some Han Chinese who wanted to rebel. The Western Jin Dynasty is no exception! .
When it was first established, the regime was unstable and wanted to recruit celebrities from the society to be officials! The seven sages of bamboo forest are in their consideration, but Ji Kang can't. He is Cao Cao's granddaughter-in-law, and will not be loyal to the Western Jin Dynasty court, so the court turned its attention to Liu Ling, which is famous for drinking.
As recorded in the biography of Liu Jinling:
Taste for Jianwei to join the army. At the beginning of Thailand's counter-measures, words and deeds were consistent. At that time, subrogation was supreme and musicians were useless. He's dead.
When the court saw Liu Ling join the army, it sent someone to persuade him to become an official. So Liu Ling soon got drunk. When the court sent someone, he dragged himself out and ran naked in the street. The court saw that the man was not crazy, right? Go back!
Liu Ling is crazy about alcohol.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, many people loved drinking, but Liu Ling was addicted to it. He even wrote a ode to wine, praising the benefits of drinking! For example, the content of Ode to Wine Virtue recorded in the Book of Jin:
Living in a house without a room, heaven and earth are the same. Listen without hearing the thunder and see the shape of Mount Tai. I don't know what it's like to cut muscles in cold weather and summer.
Liu Ling said, it's fun to take the sky as home and the ground as seat after drinking. And after drinking wine, I can't hear the thunder and lightning, I can't see the height of Mount Tai, and I can't even feel the heat and cold. Drinking is really a good thing! The infinite function of wine can make his spirit play infinitely. His madness about wine is amazing! .
Liu Ling takes wine as medicine,
People always get sick when they eat whole grains, and Liu Ling is no exception, but when he is sick, he drinks instead of taking medicine. Why? Because he thinks wine is really a good thing, it will refresh him and the medicine will cure him. He will take wine directly as medicine! So he said to his wife, give me some wine to drink, and I will be fine. But his wife is very worried about her, saying that not drinking when she is ill is harmful to her health. You must give up drinking! .
On the surface, Liu Ling promised, "OK, I don't drink. I can swear to God. The wife was very happy to find the sacrifice, arranged everything and made him swear. " But Liu Ling did it. What did he say? The world said Ren Xinyu Dan records:
"Liu Ling, in the name of wine, drink a meet, five fights. Be careful not to listen to women. "
He said that I was born to drink, and it was impossible not to drink five barrels at a time, but according to the current unit of measurement, one barrel of wine is about 100 kg, and five barrels is 500 kg. From the beginning, Li Bai boasted that he couldn't drink 300 glasses of wine at a time, which was not enough at all. What about Liu Ling? People drink 500 Jin at a time! What's not an alcoholic? And he told the fairy that my wife's words are women's words, and I absolutely can't listen! This is not an obsession with alcohol. What is this? There is another allusion to record afterwards: "Five Solutions".
The reason for Liu Ling's wine
The reason why Liu Ling avoided the world was that he didn't want to be an official, but he didn't want to be an official from the beginning. He also mentioned that he joined the army for Wang Rong, which shows that he has no objection to being an official! But when the Western Jin Dynasty was just established, he dared not be an official! Why? Because, however, the Western Jin Dynasty has just been established. How fragile is the newly established regime? One failure may be over. To be an official in the imperial court is to reform.
But if the regime is destroyed, he is an official of the former regime and the object of hatred of the new regime. If he wants to show his strength to the new regime, he must be the first choice! So he is worried and afraid, because he is worried about political instability. Once he is on the wrong team, it will be a disaster for his wife and children!
It's not just Liu Ling. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, many degenerate people thought of this idea, fearing that chaos would bring disaster! We should make a coat for ourselves with wine, crazy and unruly behavior, so that those in power don't value themselves. Or packaging him as a complete madman, a mediocre person, in order to scare away the favor of the court and save his own life and the life of the whole family, but it is a life-saving move in troubled times! In fact, it is no different from Tao Yuanming, a hermit who lives in seclusion in the countryside and mountains.
It is a move in troubled times! Otherwise, after the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, how could there be so many lunatics recorded in Shi Shuo Xin Yu? .