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Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修

prose writer · official · Song China · 1007–1072

A prose writer and statesman of the Song. In the county where he was demoted he called himself the Old Drunkard.

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1046 · At Chuzhou, where he had been demoted. At thirty-nine he called himself an old man

The old drunkard's mind is not on the wine. It is among the hills and streams.

醉翁之意不在酒,在乎山水之間也。

"The Old Drunkard's Pavilion"

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