Tong Tao's Guide: Maybe one night, when you are depressed, your understanding of wine is like this: Where will you wake up tonight? Yang Liuan, Xiaofeng and Canyue (Lin Yuling by Liu Yong in the Northern Song Dynasty). Where is the end of your heart? Or it may be parting with an old friend: advising you to drink more and going out of Yangguan for no reason (Tang-Wang Wei's "Send Yuan Er An Xi"). After drinking this cup, I don't know when I can raise my glass this time. Do you have any old friends abroad?

There is no wine on the table of China people, which always makes people feel unnatural. Wine is one of the mainstream drinks on the table in China. It is very popular in China. In addition, China has a long history of brewing and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. About 3000 years ago, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China people invented the double fermentation method of distiller's yeast and began to brew a large number of yellow rice wine. About 1000 years ago in the Song Dynasty, China people invented the distillation method, and since then, liquor has become the main liquor for China people to drink. Today, let's take a look at the stories in Chinese wine culture.

According to ancient records, the invention of wine was quite accidental. Once, Du Kang put the leftovers in an empty mulberry. After a long time, rice naturally ferments, giving off fragrance and flowing out a liquid. Du Kang took a sip and thought it was delicious. Inspired by this, Du Kang invented wine. Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty said this in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Shao Kang, an ancient man, first made dustpans and brooms. So are Shao Kang and Du Kang. What does that mean? In ancient times, there was a man named Du Kang, who was the first person to make dustpans and wine at the beginning of the year. " Du Kang, as the ancestor of China's wine, has been respected throughout the ages. Dukang wine and Wuliangye, as famous historical wines, have been drunk by literati and poets in past dynasties, and they have written brilliant articles and immortal poems.

Wine can be used to talk about ideals and the battlefield, just as Xin Qiji said in "Breaking the Array, Giving Zhuang Language to Chen Tongfu": When you are drunk, you can dream back and blow the horn. It can also be used to say that spring is colorful, as Du Muzai's "Poems of Jiangnan Spring" says: Ti Ying is green and red, and the water town is full of wine flags. Wine is not only used for drinking, but also for expressing yearning for nature and ideals.

Nowadays, the core of wine culture is "wine man culture". People's wine behavior is more common, wine is more closely related to people's fate, wine is widely integrated into people's lives, and the wine culture close to "life" has been enriched and developed as never before. Such as birthday party, wedding party, funeral party, etc. , and related wine customs and wine rituals have become an important part of life.