The word "warm wine" or "warm wine", which seems a little strange today, has become a relatively niche way of drinking, but in ancient times it was a ritualistic hospitality etiquette, especially in the Song Dynasty, before drinking alcohol, it was necessary to "warm up".
Song people like warm wine, but also related to the popular wine of the Song Dynasty, when most of the yellow wine brewed by rice on the market, yellow wine is a low-grade brewed wine, not easy to intoxicate, but the taste is particularly good, so in the TV series we often see a large bowl of heavy drinking scenes.
Warm wine can not only satisfy our love of wine, but also have certain medicinal value. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there are records of "sudden death in horror, and when the warm wine is poured, it is awakened"; "the husband's feet are cold and he cannot walk, he uses three buckets of alcohol and three buckets of water, into the urn, the charcoal fire is warm, the feet are stained to the lacquer, and the charcoal fire is always not cold, and it stops for three days".
"Han Xizai's Night Feast" volume (partial) (Source丨The Palace Museum official website)
In addition, if we encounter bruises on weekdays, we can use hot wine to disperse blood. The wine itself is a warm thing, and after heating, this property is easier to play. At the same time, the sexual heat of warm wine also has a certain effect on rheumatic evil.
After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the warm wine is no longer heated on the open flame, but has a unique wine warmer, and the warm wine device with the improvement of the distilled wine production process and the development of the times, but also gradually faded out of everyone's vision, mention it, now some people have not even seen it! Today we will take you to see the appearance of ancient wine warmers!
Silver roasted blue wine pot (image source丨 Palace Museum official website)
This silver roasted blue wine jug, six-sided diamond-shaped, six sides are burned with Meilan bamboo chrysanthemums and other patterns, exquisite workmanship, elegant shape. Among them, the plum proud branches, the orchid is fresh and elegant, the bamboo is otherworldly, and the chrysanthemum is light and clean, which can be said to be a wine warmer that is very suitable for the popularity of the literary festival. It is easy to have an image: the windows are full of snow, the indoor friends talk around the stove at night, the atmosphere is not a very fierce scene of large bowls of wine, but a long conversation between each other's hearts.
When the wine warmer is in use, hot water will be injected into the coat on the right side, and then the inner pot will be placed in hot water, and then continuous heat preservation will be achieved by constantly changing the hot water. This way of warming wine is relatively clean and hygienic, and easy to operate, and directly put the wine vessel on the open fire to burn more respected, and this way of warm wine is more similar to the combination of the injection and the bowl of the warm wine warmer.
Jingdezhen kiln green and white glaze carved flower injection pot, warm bowl (image source丨 Palace Museum official website)
This combination of a note and a bowl was a typical warm wine set at that time. When using, place the pot (note) in a warm bowl and warm the wine with hot water from the bowl. The most popular warm wine utensils in the Northern Song Dynasty were this complete set of warm bowl combinations.
In the Song Meng elder's "Tokyo Dream Record", it is recorded: "Most of the people in the capital have extravagant customs, the measurement is slightly wider, and in the hotel, do not ask who it is, stop two people sitting and drinking, they must also use a pair of bowls, two pairs of plates, five pieces of fruit and vegetable dishes, three or five water vegetable bowls, that is, nearly one hundred and two silver." "It can be seen that the warm wine atmosphere was more common at that time.
If you have also had warm wine experience at the moment, this way of using a warm bowl to warm wine has been passed down to this day, and it is a very simple and convenient way to warm wine, as long as you prepare a bowl full of hot water! And the warm bowl and the wine jug can not be used in a set, as long as the wine jug can be put into the bowl is enough.
Tin carved verse drum warm pot (image source 丨 Palace Museum official website)
This warm pot (wine warmer) is more complete, the whole is drum-shaped, consisting of three parts: lid, jacket and inner pot. The sides of the coat also have the rings of the beast's head, which is convenient for extraction and movement. This kind of three-piece set of warm pots was widely used in the Ming Dynasty, the moisture resistance of metal products is better, and the price is relatively low, compared with the combination of warm bowls, a cover is added, and the heat preservation is better.
Although it seems that there is one more cover, it may be one step more in use, which is relatively troublesome, but warm wine is a rather ritualistic thing, similar to cooking tea, the more careful and meticulous, the more you can express the importance of friends, and when pouring wine, you can also chat, in practice, it will not have much impact.
As rice wine gradually withdraws from everyone's field of vision, the sense of ceremony of warm wine is more valued by everyone, and behind this sense of ceremony, it is actually the importance of friends who drink together, and the cherishing of the simple love between friends hidden behind the wine table.
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