Liu Ling's Sobering-up Platform
Liu Ling's Sobering-up Platform is a relic left by Liu Ling, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. This huge stone is surrounded by undulating mountains and flat fields, with a sheer cliff beneath. Awakening from a drunken stupor here holds a unique and profound meaning. It is accurately recorded in both the "Huixian County Annals" and the "Weihui Prefecture Annals" that Liu Ling and other sages, either gathering together or in groups of two or three, often came here for a tour. Especially Liu Ling, he would come to lie on this stone drunk every now and then and sleep soundly until he sobered up. Later generations, in order to commemorate Liu Ling, this earthly wine immortal, named this stone "Liu Ling's Sobering-up Platform". Ji Yunhe, the magistrate of Huixian County during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, specially visited this stone and composed a poem:
Liu Ling's Sobering-up Platform
---A poem for the wine immortal who roams beyond the mundane world
Though the world is vast, no place is as serene as this stone.
With aroma of wine wafting like snowy waves, he lies drunk, embracing the clear mountains.
The crane dreams peacefully on the pine tip, and the eagle hunts at the mouth of the valley.
After a deep sleep like in the land of Huaxu, he looks at the universe with a wine cup in hand.
(The Dream of Huaxu is an allusion. It refers to the story that the Yellow Emperor once dreamed of traveling to the land of Huaxu. It is used as a metaphor for a dream and has been adapted into a TV series.)
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Tian Jing
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