The New Year is full of joy and Tusu, and the ancients liked to drink Tusu wine

"The old age is removed from the sound of the painting horn, and the new year is full of joy and tu su." After Yang He suddenly turned to frost, the Yuan Qi was more like the beginning of heaven and earth. Evening poetry returns to grass dreams, and spring light essays on peach symbols. Closed door greetings are too few, Jing to plum blossoms to read books. "The Song Dynasty poet Zhen Shan Ming's "Year Dynasty" describes the traditional customs of the ancients to celebrate the Spring Festival.

The "Tu Su" in the poem refers to Tu Su wine. One is the wine made with TuSu grass, that is, Tu Su wine. Another theory is that Tu Su also refers to thatched house or grass temple in ancient times, where the owner of the house administers medicine and medicine, but people do not know its name, so they call this medicinal liquor Tu Su wine in the name of Tu Su, the name of the grass temple.

Tusu wine was once a medicinal wine for people to prevent plague and health care in ancient times, and it was also a seasonal wine that must be drunk in the New Year. Chen Yuanliang of the Southern Song Dynasty said in "The Chronicle of the Ages": "The butcher, saying that he slaughters the ghost qi; the Su person, speaking of the soul of the people of Su Province." "It means that Tu Su can exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits, seek good fortune and avoid evil, and after Tu Su soaks in wine, it has the function of epidemic prevention." "Sketch Fang" Yun: "This Hua Tuo Fang also." Drink it on New Year's Day, and dispel all unhealthy qi. "Qianjin Fang" cloud: "Drink Tu Su, the age of Dan to dispel the epidemic, not infected with plague and typhoid fever", and cloud: "One person drinks a family without epidemic." A family drinks a mile without disease. "Drinking Tusu wine together at the beginning of the first month of the new month, in addition to celebrating the festival, can also protect the new year from the invasion of plague and disease, and seek health and longevity."

The formula of Tu Su liquor was first created by hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of the Han Dynasty, which was made of rhubarb, bai shu, guizhi, parsnip, peppercorns, aconitum, appendages and other traditional Chinese medicines immersed in wine, which was of great benefit to the human body, and could be described as a good recipe for various functions such as qi and blood invigorating blood, dispelling wind and cold, and anhe five viscera. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, highly praised this, and every waxing month, he always had to prepare Tusu medicine to distribute to the villagers and neighbors. His book "Preparation for Emergencies and Thousands of Gold Recipes" records the recipe and preparation method of Tusu wine: "Akagi Guixin seven dollars and five points, windproof one or two, sarsaparilla five dollars, Shu pepper, orange stem, rhubarb five dollars each five cents, aconitum two dollars five points, red adzuki beans fourteen pieces." The above prescription is studied as the end, packed in a triangular color bag, Chinese New Year's Eve the night hanging well, taken out in the early morning of the first day, placed in the wine, fried for four or five boils. Since then, successive generations of doctors have attached importance to Tu Su wine, although the composition of the prescription is different, but it is similar, and it has the effect of fitness and disease prevention.

However, tusu liquor drinking method is different from drinking ordinary wine, which is sorted from young to long, taking turns to toast, and the oldest elders always drink last. Why? Dong Xun of the Northern Wei Dynasty explained: "The young man will be old, so he will be congratulated; the old man will be punished if he loses his age." "Because the New Year arrives, the child increases by one year and gradually matures, so we must first congratulate the children and grandchildren on their healthy growth; and the elderly have a year less to live, so drag a little time to the end to drink, containing the meaning of wishing them a long life."

The older people end up drinking this wine, and there is no sadness of getting older, on the contrary, the poets are quite open-minded about it. In the Tang Dynasty, Gu Quan's poem "Years and Days" said: "I don't feel that the veteran will arrive in the spring, and I am even more sad to join hands with several people." Will also be lonely shame mirror, hand Tu Su let the teenager. Song Dynasty Su Rui's poem "Except for the Day": "Drinking Tu Su at the end of each year, I don't realize that there have been more than seventy years." His brother Su Shi also has a poem in "Except for the Night Wild Stay in Changzhou City": "But the poor and the poor are long and healthy, and they do not hesitate to drink Tu Su at the end." Su Shi believes that as long as he is in good health, although he is old, he does not care, and he naturally does not have to resign when he finally drinks Tu Su wine.

Drinking Tusu wine during the Spring Festival is an important part of the mainland's traditional annual culture, drinking it to prolong life, drive away evil spirits and avoid epidemics, and avoid all unhealthy tendencies. In the new year, I look forward to driving away all evil plagues and plagues, auspicious and happy, and the peace of the homeland.

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