In the elegant Chinese civilization, wine has a special status.
For five thousand years, whether it is a talented and beautiful person, a military general, an imperial general, a mortal pawn, everyone has a preference for wine.
When people drink and praise wine, they will give the wine they drink a funny name or alias. Most of these names are derived from some allusions, or depend on the taste, color, intensity, and brewing method of the wine.
Take a look at the following nicknames for these wines, how much do you know?
Tianlu
The Book of Han and the Chronicle of Food and Goods has: "The wine drinker, the beauty of the heavens, the emperor so nourishes the world, enjoys the blessings of the gods, and helps the sick."
According to legend, in the last year of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Shichong once said to his courtiers: "Wine can assist harmony, and it is advisable to seal The Doctor of Tianlu." Therefore, the wine is also known as "Doctor Tianlu".
Pot
Originally a vessel for holding wine, it was later also used as a synonym for wine, and Tao Li wrote in his "Return to the Past": "Lead the pot to drink for yourself, and look at the court to be pleasant" .
Bai Juyi wrote in the poem "Sending Orders to Stay Alone in the Eastern Capital": "The Eastern Capital adds a crazy guest, first report the pot to the wind and moon knowledge."
Frozen mash
i.e. spring wine. It is a sake brewed in the cold winter for spring drinking. According to the "Poetry, Wind and July", "Rice was obtained in October, and for this spring wine, it was to introduce Mei Shou".
Du Mu wrote in "Sending Brother Nei and The Twelve Rhymes of the State Cui Yuanwai": "The rain invades the cold and dreams, and the plum leads the frozen mash to fall."
Green ants
"Green ant new wine, red clay stove." The "green ant" in the poem refers to the foam on the surface of the newly brewed rice wine when it is not filtered, because it is slightly green and thin as an ant, so it is called "green ant".
It can also be called "floating ants", "green ants", "ice ants". "Ant" can be used to describe foam, and "ant wine" can also refer to turbid wine.
Contents of the cup
Because when drinking alcohol, most of them are held in a cup and are named "what is in the cup". It began with Kong Rong's famous saying: "The seats are always full, and the wine in the bottle (cup) is not empty."
Du Fu's "Drama Title Sent to the King of Hanzhong" also wrote: "Endure the contents of the cup, sleep to see the motto." ”
Prajnaparamita
Dou Ge's "Wine Recipe • Exotic Nine": "The country of Tianzhu is said to be wine for crisp, and now the northern monks are cloudy like soup, and the thin words are covered to avoid the law and forbidden, which is not produced by the Interpretation Code." ”
Buddhists forbade monks to drink alcohol, but some monks stole it, and because they avoided it, they called the wine "Prajnaparamita".
The name of wine comes from the culture of wine, even if we no longer have to use these words to communicate or create like the ancients, but these nicknames, we think of when we drink, can also add a sense of fun and talk.
Maybe when you drink it, you find that what you are drinking is not wine, but culture.