"I'll replace the wine with tea, toast you!" Replacing wine with tea is the use of tea instead of wine when you don't want to drink and are embarrassed, which is the etiquette of those who are invincible. In fact, the act of replacing wine with tea is self-contained

"I'll replace the wine with tea, toast you!" Replacing wine with tea is the use of tea instead of wine when you don't want to drink and are embarrassed, which is the etiquette of those who are invincible. In fact, the act of replacing wine with tea has been around since ancient times, and it comes from a very interesting allusion. In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Yao's Biography", the story of "replacing wine with tea" is recorded.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Hao, the monarch of Eastern Wu, often held cocktail parties, and all his subordinates had to accompany him, and the rules were: those who participated in the cocktail party should drink 7 liters of wine. Because the ministers were very afraid of Sun Hao, they all drank desperately at the banquet, so after each banquet, the court was in a mess, and the courtiers were upside down, drunk and lying in the banquet, and ugly.

Wei Yao was erudite and upright, and his alcohol consumption was only 2 liters. Since he was Sun Hao's father's teacher, Sun Hao took extra care of Wei Yao. Sun Hao knew that Wei Yao was invincible, so he secretly ordered someone to give Wei Yao tea water and replace the wine with tea to save Wei Yao from being ugly.

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