Jing Ming The life notes of the old Li family
Wine stories and revelations
In the long history of the Chinese nation, many things are at the forefront of the world, here I will not talk about the four major inventions that everyone knows, just say one drink: wine. Wine is brewed by people, drunk by people, and drunk by people. For thousands of years, the ancients have drunk the present, and the present people have drunk the descendants, which is the charm of wine and the realm of people, and it has a brilliant historical chapter. The vicissitudes of sangtian, China is the hometown of wine, wine is a special fermented food, is dissolved in people's material life is indispensable things. There are many kinds, roughly liquor, beer, rice wine, medicinal liquor, wine, etc., most of which are mainly based on grain brewing and are closely attached to agriculture. In the past, the abundance of food production was a barometer of the rise and fall of the wine industry. Successive rulers have often adjusted the production of wine according to the grain harvest to ensure that there is enough food and clothing. In the historical civilization of thousands of years, wine has gradually penetrated into all areas of social life and derived wine culture. Because the world loves wine, it has a long history, and it is associated with several fragments of wine stories in ancient and modern times. Share it with you.
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The origin of a wine
There are many legends about the origin of wine: there is the saying that the heavens made wine, the ape man made wine, and the Yidi wine made in the Xia Yu period, and I believe in Du Kang's wine. There are three reasons: First, Du Kang wine can still be seen and drunk, and it can be touched. The second is the evidence of Cao Cao's short song behavior: for wine as a song, the geometry of life, such as chaolu, going to the day is more bitter, how to relieve worries, only Du Kang. The third is Du Kang's three drops of winemaking blood. It is said that Du Kang is in charge of the grain depot, the grain is moldy, and the rain produces a fragrance, and after a few days, the incense overflows and becomes a divine water. At this point, it has been made into wine, but there is no afterword. Legend has it that Du Kang met a wise man and told him that when he was a chief nine days later, he was looking for three people passing by at the mouth of the village, and he wanted to shed blood and taste the gods. Therefore, Du Kang waited early at the entrance of the village that day, and first met a teacher. A moment later, a samurai on horseback passed by to explain his intentions, and the samurai generously increased a drop of blood after listening to it; after that, no one came, seeing that the chief was about to pass, in anxiety, saw a fool lying under a tree on the side of the road, and helplessly took a drop of blood, only to collect three drops of blood. Joining the chieftain, it is indeed rich and fragrant, but it also has a different performance after drinking. One cup is the blood of the literati, the quality of the literary and polite; the second cup is the blood of the samurai, full of pride; the wine has passed three rounds, demented and stupid. With this story, I believed Du Kang's theory of making wine.
2. The queen mother sells wine
In ancient times, there was a queen mother who made a living by making wine and selling wine. One day a Taoist monk came to his house to spend the night, drank hundreds of bowls of wine in a few days, and did not give money, and the queen mother did not care. One day the Taoist priest said: I have drunk so much wine from you and have no money for you, so you can take the well water out and sell it, it is full of wine. When the queen mother heard this, she went to fetch water, and sure enough, all that poured out was fine wine, and the queen mother naturally became rich. Later, the Taoist priest asked the princess if the wine was good? The queen mother said: The wine is good, that is, there is no lees for feeding the pigs. After listening to it, the Taoist priest smiled and raised an oil poem on the wall: The sky is not high, the people's hearts are the highest, the well water is sold for wine, and there is no lees. After that, the well never drank again. Revelation: When people are not satisfied, they become slaves to greed. Contentment and happiness, lifelong humiliation.
Three Hongmen Feast
206 BC. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu both wanted to dominate. However, Liu Bang's military strength was not as good as Xiang Yu's, and he first broke through Xianyang and then wanted to become king, and Xiang Yu was furious and set up a feast at the Hongmen Gate. During this period, Xiang Yu's adviser Fan Zeng arranged for Xiang Zhuang to dance the sword to help him, but in fact he wanted to get rid of Liu Bang. Xiang Bo also danced to help Liu Bang, waiting for Fan Duo to rush to escort Liu Bang into the toilet and flee, and later became a great cause. Revelation: Xiangzhuang dancing sword, intended to pei gong. The story is gripping, it is a thrilling political struggle, drinking wine, feasting on the crowd, and seizing the world. Liu Bang knew that people were good at their duties and turned dangers into disasters. Xiang Yu, nepotism, self-respecting.
Four glasses of wine release military power
At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, set up a banquet in order to strengthen the centralization of power and prevent other generals from wearing yellow robes and seizing power. The ministers were easily handed over by threats and inducements. Revelation: A small glass of wine, in which the big ones are. The use of peaceful means did not hurt the harmony of the monarchs and courtiers, and also relieved the military power. Preventing mutinies, this is the world's famous Annei strategy, and its influence is far-reaching.
V. Poets and Wine
Tang Dynasty poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and so on. All are related to wine. Literati good wine, since ancient times. Shi Xian Li Bai: "Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and the shadow into three people." "What a unique realm this is. The ancient sages were all lonely, but the drinker kept his name. Regarding the poet's invitation to wine, Wang Lun invited Li Bai, and there is also a good story. In other words, Wang Lun wrote a letter to Li Bai: Sir good to swim, ? There are ten miles of peach blossoms here. Sir good wine? There are 10,000 hotels in this area. Li Bai heard this and ran away, and after going there, he found that there was not a single peach blossom, only a puddle called Peach Blossom Pond, where there were ten thousand hotels. It's just that the owner of the small hotel is surnamed Wan. Lee is sexually free during the day and does not think so. After drinking with Wang Lun for several days, he wrote before leaving: "Li Bai will want to go on a boat, and he overhears the song on the shore, and the peach blossom pond is thousands of feet deep, and it is not as deep as Wang Lun to send me affection." Du Fu praised him to the point of: "Li Baidou wrote a hundred poems on wine, the restaurant in Chang'an City slept, and the Son of Heaven did not come to the ship, claiming that his subjects were immortals in wine." Talented, drunk and bold, extraordinary, how dashing! However, he eventually died of drunkenness in romance, and it is said that he jumped into the river to catch the moon after getting drunk and drowned.
The poem Saint Du Fu is full of devastation. "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and there are frozen bones on the road." The wine glass is filled with family and national feelings, the pain of cangsheng, and his popular poems have become immortal monuments in the Chinese literary world for a thousand years, and have been praised throughout the ages. Unfortunately, a meal of wine and meat, but lost the life of a generation of poets, according to the historical records: Yongtai two years, beef liquor, drunk, died in Leiyang, when the age of fifty-nine. Pathetic. Bai Juyi, born in a small bureaucratic family, naturally eats fireworks in the world. "Green new wine, red clay small stove, late to the day to snow, can drink a cup of nothing." On snowy days, invite friends to drink together and talk about their hearts. When sima was degraded to Jiangzhou, he was often accompanied by wine, xunyang jiangtou, a wine banquet, and there was a famous article "Pipa Xing" throughout the ages. Just when "drunk is not happy and miserable will be goodbye", but "overheard the sound of pipa on the water", so "move the boat to meet and invite each other", "add wine back to the lamp to reopen the banquet." After listening to the woman's complaint about the suffering of the world, it is not easy to be sentimental, "the same is the fallen man at the end of the world, why should I have known each other when I met", and the feeling of indignation jumped to the riverside.
VI. Drunken Revelation
In today's society, wine is regarded as a must-have for social occasions, and it has built a bridge of people-to-people interaction. If there is something to ask for, they invite a drink, push the cup to change the cup, say what should not be said, should not express the attitude, do not do the things, should not sign the contract is also signed. So Ai Qing said: What is wine? It has the character of fire, the shape of water, it will steal your reason when you are happy, don't think that he is water, can extinguish your worries, she is the oil poured on the fire, it will be smarter people smarter, stupid people are more stupid, sometimes it will be smart people become stupid. Li Bai said: "If the heavens do not love wine, the wine star is not in the sky, and if the earth does not love wine, the earth should have no wine spring." "Then heaven and earth love wine, how bitter to hurt the stomach and liver, you and I both love wine, the right amount of wine to dry." In our daily life, there are happy wine and good wine celebration wine, there are also boring bitter wine frustrated wine, wine can make things happen, but also bad things. The story of wine, with a long history, is difficult to tell in Vientiane, so I put aside my pen and enlightened it from it, and I experienced that traditional culture needs to be inherited, but the culture of wine needs to be carried out according to its ability. Reproduce the meaning of Du Kang's wine: one cup to relieve worries, two cups of righteousness, three cups have passed, they are stupid and stupid, and they do not know what it means. Therefore, although the wine is good, don't covet the cup, don't tolerate a small glass of wine, and miss Qingqing's life. Remember: life is like wine, don't be greedy; life is like a cup, don't be full. Not being greedy is cultivation, and dissatisfaction is wisdom. Advise the king to drink one less glass of wine, talk and laugh and be friends.