Li Bai has many indissoluble relationships with poetry and wine, and he once wrote in the "Song of Xiangyang": "Thirty-six thousand days in a hundred years, three hundred cups must be poured in one day." "It's enough to see how much Li Bai loves to drink." Since Du Kang made wine, this aroma that has been permeated for thousands of years has become a rather charming part of Chinese culture from ancient times to the present.
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When wine has become a culture, people drink not wine, but stories. For wine, the literati yashi is even more fond of, Xu is three cups of two cups later, wine xingxing poetry, such as Su Dongpo in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the wine asked Qingtian, and for example, Bai Lotte invited Liu Nineteen "can drink a cup of nothing" leisure on the snowy day, to say that the most favorite for wine is Li Bai, he handed down poetry, which mentions "wine" as many as two hundred songs.
Li Bai once wrote in "Guests in the Works": "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls filled with amber light." But so that the master can get drunk, do not know where is the other country. This poem was written before Li Bai entered Chang'an, and Li Bai in this period was still a spirited teenager, although he was in a foreign country, but accompanied by fine wine, he did not feel a trace of nostalgia.
In ancient times, tulip was a kind of herb, and its roots could be used to medicinal or brew wine, with aroma and lasting. The color of the wine brewed in it is golden yellow, which is very beautiful, and the use of such a delicate vessel as a jade bowl to hold such a fine wine makes it look as beautiful as amber. Although this poem depicts the aroma and color of wine, what kind of wine has not been drunk by people like Li Bai who love wine? It wasn't just the wine that made him forget his nostalgia, but also the hospitality of the host's home.
Therefore, this "Guest in the Works" is different from other lyrical parting sorrows, it is written with an optimistic and upward emotion, although it is in a foreign country, but there is no sense of worry. It fully reflects the romance and pride of his poems, and also reflects Li Baihao's uninhibited personality.
At this time, Li Bai was unbridled and dashing, fighting the sword in the end of the world, and struggling all the way for the dream of the reader in his heart: to be a capable minister who ruled the world.
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The wine drunk by the ancients is still very different from our modern times, and the winemaking technology at that time was far less developed than it is now, and there would be no additives. Take these kinds of wines that appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The first thing to say is rice wine, which may be the earliest wine that has appeared in China. As the name suggests, rice wine is a low-concentration drink containing alcohol formulated with rice, and there is also a sorghum wine, both of which belong to grain brewing wine, the degree is relatively low, they are also relatively common, the brewing technology is not very complicated, and many ordinary people can afford to consume.
Li Bai's "Seven Ladies of the Gift" has "a thousand cups of green wine how to get drunk", the green wine mentioned here is actually rice wine, it is through rice and water and then add wine koji, and then put into the wine jar to seal, wait for it to ferment on its own, after a period of time, it will form this wine, but because the brewing technology is relatively rough, so the brewed wine will have some green foam, it looks like a green ant, just like Bai Lotte in "Ask Liu Nineteen" depicted: "green ant new wine." And not only Bai Juyi, Li Bai and others talked about this kind of green wine, Feng Yanwei also mentioned in "Long Life Girl" that "spring feast, green wine a cup of song again." "So at that time, this kind of wine should be very common, but due to the underdeveloped brewing technology, this green wine, that is, rice wine, will show such a color."
So what is the taste of this wine to drink, generally speaking, the wine brewed with grain is more fragrant, in the brewing process, these grains have been fermented and a lot of them are saccharified, so it is a bit sweet to drink, and this taste is probably the same as the current "mash".
In addition to rice wine, there is also shochu, which was called shochu in ancient times as shochu or shochu, which is also known as liquor. Of course, this can not be compared with our modern sense of liquor, this liquor is a kind of distilled liquor, but the distillation technology at that time in the Tang Dynasty only used steam to produce steam, and this distillation technology is actually not used in winemaking, but in alchemy. In fact, this kind of shochu is just the green wine refined by repeated cooking, and in the process of repeated cooking, the degree of alcohol will be relatively increased, so the degree of shochu is relatively higher than rice wine, but compared to the current degree of liquor is still much lower, which is probably the same degree as our current beer.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was also a kind of wine, that is, wine, of course, this wine was brought in from foreign countries, according to the "Taiping Imperial Records", in 640 AD, Tang Taizong led an army to attack Gaochangguo and obtained the method of wine making, and then, wine slowly began to rise in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Bai's "Xiangyang Song" also has a certain description of wine: "Looking at the green head of the Hanshui duck from a distance, it is just like the grapes are first pickled." "The wine is mainly made from grapes, not only is the color good, but the taste is also sweet. But although this wine is delicious, not everyone can afford to drink, after all, it is passed down from the gentiles, its price is relatively expensive, which is naturally not affordable for ordinary people.
In summary, in fact, in the Tang Dynasty, the main popular rice wine, after all, the brewing is simple, the cost is not high, and many talents can afford to consume. And these wines, drinking are sweet.
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After understanding the wines of the Tang Dynasty, let's take a look at how much wine the poet Li Bai had. Du Fu once mentioned in the "Eight Immortals song in drinking" that "Li Baidou wine has a hundred poems, and the restaurant in Chang'an City sleeps." Tianzi did not come to the ship, claiming that his subject was a wine immortal. "Probably means that Li Bai can write a hundred poems by drinking a bucket of wine." So how much is a bucket of wine?
The original meaning of the bucket is a kind of instrument for holding wine, and it is also a tool used to measure grain. In the "Explanation of Words and Words", it is said: Bucket, ten liters also, pictogram, with handle. That is to say, one bucket is equal to ten liters, which is almost sixteen pounds according to the current algorithm. If we follow this amount, Li Bai's alcohol consumption is still very strong at present. However, the bucket here refers to the container of wine, not to the unit of capacity. A bucket is roughly equivalent to what we look like now, two by two, three by two, that is, a cup.
Looking back at Du Fu's "Eight Immortals song in Drinking", Du Fu described others as follows: "Ruyang Three Buckets Began to Heaven", "Zuo Xiang spent tens of thousands of dollars, drinking like a long whale sucking hundreds of rivers", "Zhang Xu Three Cups of Grass Sacred Biography", "Jiao Sui Wudou Fang Zhuoran" Look at this person, drinking is quite powerful, Ruyang King Li Zhen drank three buckets before going up to the pilgrimage to see tianzi, Zuo Xiang Li Shizhi drank particularly strongly, like a whale Tuna Baichuan, drinking every day. Zhang Xu's three glasses of wine fell into a book, and after Jiao Sui's five buckets of wine, his thinking was quick and surprised everyone.
And the picture of Du Fu depicting Li Bai drinking wine is "Li Bai Dou wine hundred poems, Chang'an City on the restaurant sleep." "He said he got drunk after a bucket of wine and fell asleep in the tavern. It seems that Li Bai's alcohol consumption does not seem to be very good. At least compared to the previous few people, Li Bai's alcohol consumption could not catch up. Thinking again that the general degree of wine in the Tang Dynasty is not high, maybe Li Bai drank this cup of wine just like our current beer, good guys, it turned out that Li Bai was a cup poured.
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