《醉翁亭记》是北宋文学家欧阳修创作的一篇散文。宋仁宗庆历五年（1045年），参知政事范仲淹等人遭谗离职，欧阳修上书替他们分辩，被贬到滁州做了两年知州。到任以后，他内心抑郁，但还能发挥“宽简而不扰”的作风，取得了某些政绩。《醉翁亭记》就写在这个时期。文章描写了滁州一带朝暮四季自然景物不同的幽深秀美，滁州百姓和平宁静的生活，特别是作者在山林中与民一齐游赏宴饮的乐趣。全文贯穿一个“乐”字，其中则包含着比较复杂曲折的内容。一则暗示出一个封建地方长官能“与民同乐”的情怀，一则在寄情山水背后隐藏着难言的苦衷。正当四十岁的盛年却自号“醉翁”，而且经常出游，加上他那“饮少辄醉”、“颓然乎其间”的种种表现，都表明欧阳修是借山水之乐来排谴谪居生活的苦闷。作者醉在两处：一是陶醉于山水美景之中，二是陶醉于与民同乐之中。
欧阳修（1007年8月1日－1072年9月22日），字永叔，号醉翁、六一居士，汉族，吉州永丰（今江西省吉安市永丰县）人，北宋政治家、文学家，且在政治上负有盛名。因吉州原属庐陵郡，以“庐陵欧阳修”自居。官至翰林学士、枢密副使、参知政事，谥号文忠，世称欧阳文忠公。累赠太师、楚国公。后人又将其与韩愈、柳宗元和苏轼合称“千古文章四大家”。与韩愈、柳宗元、苏轼、苏洵、苏辙、王安石、曾巩被世人称为“唐宋散文八大家”。
欧阳修是在宋代文学史上最早开创一代文风的文坛领袖。领导了北宋诗文革新运动，继承并发展了韩愈的古文理论。他的散文创作的高度成就与其正确的古文理论相辅相成，从而开创了一代文风。欧阳修在变革文风的同时，也对诗风词风进行了革新。在史学方面，也有较高成就。
The Story of Zuiweng Pavilion is a prose written by Ouyang Xiu, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty. In 1045, Fan Zhongyan, a political counselor, was slandered and resigned. Ouyang Xiu wrote to defend them and was demoted to Chuzhou for two years. After taking office, he was depressed in his heart, but he could still play the style of “being lenient and simple without disturbing” and achieved some political achievements. “The Story of Zuiweng Pavilion” was written in this period. The article describes the profound beauty of the natural scenery in Chuzhou in different seasons, the peaceful and peaceful life of the people in Chuzhou, especially the pleasure of the author and the people in the mountains and forests. The full text runs through the word “music”, which contains more complicated and tortuous content. One implied the feelings of a feudal governor who could “share happiness with the people”, and the other implied the unspeakable bitterness behind the landscape of expressing feelings. At the age of 40, Ouyang Xiu called himself “Drunken Man”, and he often traveled. In addition, his various performances of “drinking less often drunk” and “decadent in the meantime” all showed that Ouyang Xiu was using the pleasure of mountains and rivers to punish the hardships of living in exile. The author is intoxicated in two aspects: one is intoxicated in the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, and the other is intoxicated in sharing happiness with the people.

Ouyang Xiu (August 1, 1007 to September 22, 1072), with the name of Yongshu, the number of Zuiweng and the number of Guyi, is a Han nationality, born in Yongfeng County, Jizhou (now Yongfeng County, Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province), a politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, and has a high political reputation. Because Jizhou was originally Luling County, it regarded itself as “Luling Ouyang Xiu”. The official is a bachelor of Hanlin, a privy deputy envoy, and a counselor of political affairs. He has the posthumous title of Wenzhong, and is known as Duke Ouyang Wenzhong. I gave it to the Grand Master and the Duke of Chu. Later generations, together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Su Shi, called it the “Four Great Writers”. Together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong, they are known as the “eight masters of Tang and Song prose”.

Ouyang Xiu was the first literary leader to create a literary style in the history of literature in the Song Dynasty. He led the innovation movement of poetry and prose in the Northern Song Dynasty, and inherited and developed Han Yu’s ancient prose theory. His high achievements in prose creation and his correct theory of ancient prose complement each other, thus creating a new style of writing. Ouyang Xiu has also reformed the style of poetry while changing the style of writing. In terms of historiography, it has also made high achievements.

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