Gossip about three bowls but not gang (1)
Ji Wenqing
Soon it will be the New Year, relatives and friends get together to drink some wine, talk about the world, the sea and the sky have a variety of topics, this is the mainland wine culture. Wine culture is an important part of the traditional culture of the mainland. There are many legends, passages, and rules of various popular people. Among them: Wu Song drank eighteen bowls of wine in Jingyang Gang, ate four pounds of beef, and the story of killing a tiger is well-known to everyone, and women and children are well known. According to the twenty-third time of the original Water Margin," "Henghai County Chai Jin Liubin, Jingyang Gang Wusong Fights the Tiger" to analyze and analyze the amount of alcohol in WuSong. Add a joke to your liquor store, and don't take it seriously.
Shi Nai'an was a native of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and the story of the Water Margin took place during the reign of Emperor Xuanhe of the Northern Song Dynasty, about 250 years apart. The Great Song Xuan and Testament says that there are thirty-six good men hiding in the Liangshan River, in groups, who are some fugitives wanted by the government and rely on illegal activities to make a living. Mr. Shi Lao may have compiled a "Biography of The High-Roller of jianghu" based on the above information and folk tales. His student Luo Guanzhong suggested changing the title of the book to Water Margin. In order to add a legendary color to the people's preferences, it is catchy and easy to circulate. He tried to praise all the good guys, so he designed Wu Song's shining debut as a cover, drinking wine as a shop, and fighting tigers as a cover. Only when you are drunk do you fight the tiger, the credibility is higher, and the tiger becomes a big hero. So he let Wu Song drink eighteen bowls of wine. So, how many eighteen bowls are there? How many degrees of wine? How big is the bowl? How long did it take? A series of questions arise, how to explain it convincingly. Don't worry, officers, listen to me slowly.
First, the unit of measurement "bowl" is determined first. The first statement: CCTV 1998 version of water margin, Ding Haifeng as Wu Song, drinking is a bean glazed sea bowl, a bowl can hold two pounds, eighteen bowls is thirty-six pounds, Wu Song can drink thirty-six pounds of high wine, no one believes in death. If you change it to a low-grade wine of ten degrees (some people say that the wine of the Song Dynasty is a low-degree wine of ten degrees), it is equivalent to more than seven pounds of high-altitude wine, and it is enough to drink so much. Besides, after drinking so much wine, his bladder is strong and full, and the prostate will continue to go to the toilet no matter how rich and powerful, the book never mentions that he goes to the toilet, holding such a big bubble of urine and tiger hand-to-hand combat is a double danger.
If the average person drinks three large bowls of low-degree wine of ten degrees, it is also equivalent to fifty-five degrees of high wine more than one pound, most people can not drink, can not be deliberated. That's not "two bowls but no gang" or "one bowl but no gang".
The second theory: it is a small bowl of black glazed clay tire clay pottery. This kind of bowl has been a common vessel used throughout the mainland for more than 4,000 years from the Xia Shang period to the 1980s, and is now rare. People over the age of fifty have seen or used it. The outer height is about four centimeters, the bowl mouth is eleven centimeters, and the inner height is up to two centimeters. The upper part of the bowl has black glaze and the lower part leaks mud tires. This bowl can hold up to two or two wines.
Most people drink three bowls (six two) of high wine is almost as high, drunken grunting mountain road is very dangerous, it is in line with the title "three bowls but gang" drop. If it is a low-grade wine below ten degrees, don't say that three bowls is thirty bowls, it is okay, as long as no tiger can still pass the gang, the wine will not be changed to "sixty bowls but not gang", the text does not match the topic.
I think the second statement is more plausible.
Second, it may be high alcohol. The original "Restaurant Dao": "Although the wine of the Li family is a village wine, it is more delicious than the old wine; but all the guests who come to our shop and eat three bowls are drunk and cannot go to the mountain in front of them: therefore, it is called 'three bowls but not the gang'".
The titles of distilled liquor in ancient mainland literature mainly include: shochu and roasted spring, which were first used in the Tang Dynasty, but whether the soju mentioned in the Tang Dynasty and whether the roasted spring refers to distilled liquor is still controversial. After the Song Dynasty, shochu and roasted spring are the real distilled liquor above fifty-five degrees and below sixty-five degrees, and there are many names of distilled liquor, but the name "liquor" mentioned in ancient texts does not refer to distilled liquor. In modern times, liquor is used to represent distilled liquor.
The Ming Dynasty pharmacologist Li Shizhen once recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Shochu is not an ancient law, it was founded in the Yuan Dynasty, and its method is made of strong wine and bad into the koshiki, steaming on the gas, using a vessel to take drops of dew, and all sour wine can be steamed." And Tan Cui of the Qing Dynasty also said in the "Yu Hengzhi of the Dianhai Sea": "Gai shochu famous liquor dew, introduced to China in the early Yuan Dynasty, Chinese drink shochu everywhere."
The one who said that Wu Song was a Song Dynasty person, and the Song Dynasty did not necessarily have a high degree of wine. The Song Dynasty did not necessarily exist but the Yuan Dynasty was already widespread. Mr. Shi Nai'an was a native of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and he drank a high degree of wine. Is it possible that he wrote about the high wine he drank in the Water Margin? This kind of writing is very common in ancient and modern novels, such as the stirrups in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the cavalry formed combat effectiveness, which used to be horse-drawn chariot combat. But Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, could ride a black horse and ride invincible in the world; Jiang Ziya was omnipotent in heaven and earth, and the grenade was thrown particularly accurately, and no one had surpassed it so far.
Therefore, the "three bowls" in the "three bowls but not gang" should be high wine, which is a small bowl of mud in two or two, which is more relevant and in line with the public wine drops. Wu Song is a strange person, can drink eighteen bowls is three pounds six two, and then sprinkle some is three pounds of wine, is also almost a drop.
