郦食其(食音异,其音基)自幼喜好读书,富有智谋,却因家贫落魄,一直庸庸碌碌,无所作为。为了谋生,很长时间里他只得做一个替人看门的门卒。虽然衣食难寻着落,郦食其的个性却一直非常张扬,乃至“县中人皆谓之狂生”。直到六十多岁时,他才投奔刘邦而获重用。在刘邦手下, Eat food (sound different, the sound base) like to study since childhood, rich resourcefulness, but because of poverty, has been mediocre, omnipotent. In order to make a living, for a long time he had to be a gatekeeper. Although the food and clothing is hard to find, fall, eat their personality has been very publicity, and even “county people are madness ”. Until his sixtieth years, he was retired to Liu Bang and reuse. Under Liu Bang,