Zuiwengting Ji

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Zuiwengting Ji (simplified Chinese: 醉翁亭记; traditional Chinese: 醉翁亭記; pinyin: Zùiwēngtíng Jì; lit. 'An Account of the Old Toper's Pavilion') is a semi-autobiographical essay by Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072 CE). The title refers to himself and the Zuiweng Pavilion (Zuiwengting) near Chuzhou City, Anhui, China.^[1] The essay's most well-known line is: The Old Toper cares not for the wine, his interest lies in the landscape (醉翁之意不在酒，在乎山水之間也), an idiom still used in modern Chinese to describe someone with an ulterior motive.