Biography of Drunkard Layman Ouyang Xiu

Ouyang Xiu (August 6, 1007 - September 22, 1072), courtesy name Yongshu, nicknamed Zuiweng, and later nicknamed Liuyi Jushi, was a native of Yongfeng, Luling, Jizhou, Jiangnan West Road (now Yongfeng County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province). He was a literary sect of the generation, an outstanding debater, a person who understood current affairs, and an unparalleled epitaph writer in the past two thousand years. He was a scandal-ridden politician who lived up to his integrity, a historian who crammed two history books into the Twenty-Four Histories, a feudal theorist who spent his life promoting orthodox theories, loyalty to the emperor, ideas of honor and integrity, and a sage full of secular atmosphere. He is also a compassionate romantic, a hedonist who loves tea, wine and beauty, a nymphomaniac who loves peonies, an atheist, an archaeologist, a model of friendship between gentlemen, and a representative of literati and officials. His life is an inspirational story of grassroots counterattack, a thousand-year legend that beats time.