During the Spring Festival, relatives and friends gather at various liquor stores, which is probably a worldly custom that every adult has to face.
In China's thousands of years of history, from the emperors and generals to the pawns of the peddlers, one of the drinks most closely related to people's traditional food life is wine.
Wine is the blood in the body of Chinese culture, and its flow exudes the aroma of Chinese culture everywhere. It can be said that in the life of Chinese, wine occupies an absolutely important position, the so-called no wine is not a banquet, no wine is not a courtesy, no wine is not happy, no wine is not respectful.
But is it enough to have wine? No, because wine is not important, wine culture is important! Traditional Chinese culture believes that wine has the function of coordinating interpersonal relationships. In other words, drinking alcohol is mainly to deal with the relationship between people, not to deal with the relationship between people and the self. Therefore, China has always had the etiquette and rules of drinking.
We know that in a person's lifetime, we have to deal with three kinds of relationships:
The first relationship, in which wine is powerless, works in the latter two. Generally speaking, Westerners drink alcohol and focus on dealing with the relationship between people and themselves; Chinese drinking, they tend to deal with the relationship between people. If you pour yourself, it is a good (hào) wine. Even so, I would imagine someone drinking together: raising a glass to invite Mingyue, and making three people to shadow.
Drinking alcohol is always in the mood of the ups and downs.
Happy, drink two cups to cheer up; upset, come a few pots to pour sorrow.
"Wine into the intestines of the seven points into the moonlight." With a sense of pride in the chest, the wine is poured in, the mood is more open, and the mood is more cheerful.
"I am sorry for it, and I can't forget it. How to relieve worries? Only Du kang. "When you are sad, drink a pot of good wine, and temporarily forget the troubles and worries of the world."
When literati drink wine alone, wine is a medium of temporary detachment from the world. Drunk to the fullest, drunk with tincture, drunk "thoughtless, happy pottery".
One person is drunk, or there is bitterness of necessity. Ruan Yuan, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, faced with the fall of Cao Wei, refused to cooperate with Sima Shi, and could only use drunkenness to avoid fierce conflicts and avoid harm throughout his life.
People in the world, how much helpless, fortunately accompanied by fine wine, temporarily relieve worries.
When three or five friends meet to drink hard liquor, wine is the bond that deepens feelings. As the saying goes, deep feelings, a mouthful.
There are fewer cups of wine for confidants, and when you meet like-minded friends, the deeper the feelings.
Wine represents true disposition.
People who drink alcohol are prone to spit out the truth, and naturally reveal their true feelings in their hearts.
Wine represents a warm, bold, wild and uninhibited character.
Informal, disdainful of calculation, lazy to compete for small profits.
The chivalrous is like wine, jealous as a vendetta, invincible, fearless.
In China, wine culture has a long history, since Du Kang made wine, wine has carried the development of traditional Chinese culture to a certain extent. The first four rites in the "Five Rites" (the ceremony of sacrifice is auspicious, the matter of crowning marriage is the ceremony of honor, the matter of guests is the ceremony of guests, the matter of military service is the ceremony of military service, and the funeral ceremony is the ceremony of murder) are indispensable to the shadow of wine.
Wine can have an endless breath of life in the long river of history, and it is even more because it can become the spiritual sustenance of the literati and the dancers. Literati rioters in the game of wine, enjoying the sense of drunken beauty, but also achieved their "wine fairy" elegance, "drunkard" madness. Therefore, there is also a saying that "drunkards" come from Wei and Jin, and "wine immortals" come from the Tang Dynasty.
From the metaphysics, the famous scholars came out
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the door valve clan gradually rose, and the sons and sons of the family clan, in that environment of "no cold door in the upper grade, no scholar in the lower grade", they relied on their superior status, they could have been officials, but they often disdained the career, commonly known as the people of the shitu as "common officials", they advocated clean talk, and enjoyed a spiritual pursuit, the philosophy of life. Therefore, the wind of "metaphysics" in Wei and Jin gradually emerged, and at the same time, a number of "metaphysical" masters emerged.
In such an environment, there were seven arrogant, bohemian but erudite celebrities (Liu Ling, Ruan Yuan, Ji Kang, Shantao, Ruan Xian, Xiang Ji, wang Rong), who were often idle and bored, gathered in the bamboo forest to talk about it, chant poetry, and indulge in wine, so they were called the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest". The "Seven Sages" are all drunk as fate, and there is no alcohol or pleasure.
Wine can be handed over to oneself, but also can be wise to protect oneself
Nguyễn Nguyễn's talent is inherited from his father Nguyễn Đồng Đồng Đại (one of the seven sons of Jian'an), of which Nguyễn Hần Hạn Hạn is nguy The uncle took his nephew to recite poetry and learn, although it was good, but he persuaded his nephew to learn to drink from himself, and he was drunk, so it can be seen that he is not a competent uncle. Although drinking alcohol hurts the body and will make mistakes, sometimes getting drunk can also avoid some unnecessary troubles.
Zhong Hui, known as the "Western Han Dynasty strategist Zhang Liang", secretly inquired many times about Ruan's views on current affairs. Ruan Ji did not want to kill himself because he offended Zhong Hui like his good friend Ji Kang, and he wanted to live for two more years to taste the world's fine wine. But he didn't want to be in cahoots with zhong, so every time the bell came, he was very drunk and drunk, and he didn't know what to ask.
Even if Zhong Has a lot of resources and the city government is deep, "there is a talent of Wang Zuo" (Sima Shi once commented on Zhong Hui), what can you do with a drunkard? It can be seen that although Ruan Is drunk, his IQ is not under Zhong Hui. Even Sima Zhao, who is "well known to passers-by", has talked to him several times, trying to find out his views on the current political situation, although he does not dare to resolutely refuse, but the answer is that the donkey's lips are not right for the horse's mouth, you say east, he pulls west. Sima Zhao was also helpless, and had to say that "Ruan Sizong was cautious." However, Sima Zhao still had great respect for Ruan Zhi, and once wanted Ruan Zhi's daughter to marry his son and form a family with Ruan Zhi.
If this other family can't wait for a long time, they like to climb high branches. But Ruan Ji thought that this was not a good thing for his daughter, but he did not dare to openly refuse. So, the tried-and-true old method came in handy again - drunk. Although this matter was not a trivial matter, he also made a bloody payment, and he was drunk for more than 60 days in a row, so that Sima Zhao never had the opportunity to mention this matter. Later, Sima Zhao also saw that the original intention was that it was unintentional to get married, and the matter was terminated.
It is said that when Nguyen's mother died, he was playing chess with others with great interest, and the other party heard that his mother had died and proposed to suspend the game. But he was so calm that he had to finish the chess game. After the chess was finished, he wanted to come to the second bucket of wine, and after drinking it, he cried loudly and cried until he vomited blood. On the occasion of the great funeral, friends came to mourn, Ji Kang's brother Ji Xi came, but Ruan Zhi squinted and showed his white eyes, so as to despise him as an official, but Ji Kang came with wine and held the qin, and Ruan Ji was in agreement with his intentions and treated him with blue eyes. Therefore, later generations call it, treating people with blue eyes is a person who appreciates themselves, and looking at people with white eyes is a person who despises themselves for not liking.
From ancient times to the present, the contribution of wine has been everywhere and everywhere. The spirit between friends, wine can increase affection and righteousness, the cup between husband and wife, wine can be warm and warm, when you drink alone, wine can also relieve thousands of sorrows, majestic. Although the wine is good, it must not be greedy.
The "drunkard" is never the result of wine, but the result of greed. It's okay to love wine, but don't love too deeply. Moderate drinking, warm love and relief, excessive alcoholism, liver burning and hurt the body.
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