柳永才高八斗，而一生官场蹭蹬，诗酒流连，歌楼妓馆触处伤情，在北宋文人中堪称一绝。 柳永才情绝世，却又是不折不扣的酒色之徒；他放荡不羁，却又是一个生就的情种；他满腹经纶，却终生抑郁，大志不伸；他自诩白衣卿相，但他最大的官职不过是一个屯田员外郎；他生前穷困潦倒，死后却流芳千载，被无数后人缅怀追忆。(LIU Yong is a man endowed with extraordinary talents but frustrated in officialdom. He was addicted in poetry, liquor as well as memories revived in brothel, which made him a unique talent among men of letters in North Song Dynasty. LIU was a peerlessly brilliant scholar yet a real follower of wine and women, a debauchee yet a born lover. He was profoundly learned but unappreciated and depressive in whole life; boasted as a "minister in white" but ended as a Yuanwailang responsible for wasteland opening; down and out in his lifetime but left a reputation after death that recalled by generations. )