Wine is the essence of nature that was conceived and created by the flood world, which is what we think of as a person of later generations, and it is also the most quaint recognition of the ancestors and ancestors who lived on this land long ago. In the case of unknown and incomprehensible situations, they can only cover the wine in the cup and the liquid that makes them fascinated by layer after layer of mystery in their own worldview cognition. The world loved wine, and so did the ancients, so they extended their understanding of wine to worlds, things, and even inexplicable beings that they had no real contact with.
People love wine, so they will also think that those gods and ghosts that exist in the imaginary world also love wine; if there is wine in the world, there must also be fairy wine in the heavenly court and the earth; people will be drunk, and the gods and ghosts must also be often drunk in the wine glass. Such simple and simple empathy, with a glass of wine, closely connects the triple worlds of earth, heaven and earth. The direct manifestation of this reflection and connection is the prevalence of the ancient wind of sacrifice.
Ordinary people use wine to communicate with heaven and earth, this kind of custom has been very popular since the Shang Zhou Period, but at that time, the right to sacrifice ghosts and gods with wine and communicate with heaven and earth was all in the hands of the ruler, and the sacrifice also had a strong atmosphere of witchcraft, and the Shang King, as the ruler of the mortal world, was also the high priest who was in charge of the right to sacrifice and communicate with the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. The characteristics of the politics of the Shang Dynasty can be summarized as the unity of witchcraft and government, "Yin people respect gods", and their belief in the Haotian God is closely integrated with ancestor worship. Haotian God is the supreme god of the Yin people, as a natural god, Haotian God is the sun god, the god of heaven, ruling the gods of wind, rain, clouds and thunder; as an ancestral god, Haotian God is also the high ancestor of the Yin people, protecting the Yin kings of the past, therefore, the combination of natural gods and ancestral gods is the characteristic of the Yin people's theocracy, and it is also a feature of the sacrificial culture. And one of the big props of sorcery to communicate with haotian god is wine. Wine allows the Shang King in the human world to spy on the scene of the nether world and predict the fierce changes in the mortal world when he is infatuated.
Until the Han Dynasty, the right to sacrifice and communicate with ghosts and gods spread to the hands of the general public in the world, and it was no longer the exclusive domain of the emperor and general. "The ancients, the sacrifice of the mermaids, the spring and autumn to repair their shrines." The first temple of the priest, the third doctor, the time has something to do in the five worships, and there is no sacrifice to go out. Now the rich pray for the name of Yue, look at the mountains and rivers, vertebrae ox drumming, drama advocate explosion statue, middle of the South Judang Road, water cloud platform, slaughter sheep and kill dogs, drums blowing sheng. The poor chicken family five fangs, Wei Bao scattered wax, poured over the social field. (Western Han Huankuan's "On Salt and Iron") This historical material depicts a lively scene of large-scale folk wine sacrifices. Folk people can communicate with the nether world through the sacrifice of wine and meat, which not only means a change in social concepts, but also an unprecedented expansion of the ability of wine to communicate with heaven and earth.
The cup of wine into the throat is the upper heart, the heart is moving; the cup of wine sprinkled in the blue sky, is into the earth, exploring the underworld. Go with the wind and drink as much as you can.