The Reality of Chinese Wine Culture is Sad Zhang Baotong 2018.2.12

Li Bai was neither rich nor poor. Compared with most current drinkers, Li Bai is obviously not short of wine money. Li Bai travels all over the world, always carrying a money bag on his back, unlike Kong Yiji, who often can't even take out the money for drinking. Regardless of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, there will be some drunkards who drink alcohol and drink their families to ruin, drinking is a luxurious way of life, after all, the price of wine is not cheap, a slightly better wine, a bottle of wine will cost tens or hundreds of yuan. Ordinary people still can't afford to spend it. We see some people drinking alcohol twice a day, and they are definitely not drinking the wine they paid for. I remember that there were two or three very good section chiefs in the Education Bureau, and they were so addicted to alcohol that they couldn't do without alcohol every day. Seven days a week, they have a drinking party seven nights a week. There are 70 or 80 primary and secondary schools under the Education Bureau, and school leaders always have a banquet at the end of the year or at the end of the year in order to win funds, teachers, and convenience. So, they lined up the schools like shifts. When these seventy or eighty schools were invited, most of the semester had passed. Then, they began to inspect the school again, and continued to ask the school to eat and drink. We went to a luxury hotel, and the waiter told us that the section chief drank in their hotel every night, and that the private room was the special bag of the section chief. Each unit has a large amount of hospitality that is specifically paid for ushering in the send-off. Some of the higher-level leaders who were more bullish almost lined up to be entertained by lower-level units. Otherwise, there was such a joke circulating during that time, "The revolutionary wine gets drunk every day, and the party style is drunk and the stomach is bad." ”

In China, the origin of wine can be traced back to very early antiquity, and the Chinese wine culture has a long and profound history. People use wine to welcome distinguished guests, to feast on relatives, to talk about friendship, to celebrate festivals, to gather relatives and friends, and to entertain in business. Emperors and generals can't do without wine, literati can't do without wine, heroes and heroes can't do without wine, and even the people in the market can't do without wine. Wherever there are men, there should be wine. Wine can best reflect a man's chivalrous spirit.

People say that there is no ceremony without wine, and there is no banquet without wine. Because wine can create a kind of etiquette, a kind of atmosphere, a kind of mood and mood. This is the inevitable and way of the formation of Chinese wine culture. The core of Chinese wine culture is pleasure and persuasion. For example, Wang Wei's "Persuade the gentleman to have a glass of wine, and there is no one to go out of Yangguan in the west", such as Du Fu's "Singing during the day must indulge in wine, and youth is a good companion to return to the hometown", and Cao Cao's "When you sing about wine, what is the geometry of life? How to solve the worries, only Du Kang. "Pleasure is to make the guests happy, and persuasion is to make the guests happy. If these two purposes are achieved, it means that the wine has been drunk and everyone is satisfied. And poetry plays the role of this pleasure and persuasion. Therefore, poetry is the essence of Chinese wine culture, and without poetry, how much culture can wine have?

However, in today's wine, there is hardly a trace of elegance and poetry, but the strong smell of wine. The style of persuasion is straightforward and straight to the point. For example, "deep feelings, a mouthful", "raise your buttocks, start again", "I'd rather have a rotten hole in the stomach than call it an emotional crack". Some ladies clink glasses with the leader, and will say "the leader is above and I am below, you can say a few times" This kind of meaningful words make people feel meaningful. If Li Bai and Wang Wei were alive, I don't know what kind of emotion they would have in the face of today's vulgar wine culture. It is said that the Inner Mongolian people are more bold and real, when greeting the guests, without saying anything, the host picks up a big bowl, first drinks three bowls of coo, and then toasts the guests. If the guest doesn't get drunk, the host won't let him go out.

Obviously, in contemporary wine, the classic poetry has disappeared, and compared with the leisurely and elegant wine style of the ancients, people now seem to be more eclectic and more bold and rough. The ancients regarded drinking as a kind of leisure and pastime, but nowadays people drink more as a way to tackle key problems and communicate. The ancients had so much time that they overflowed, drinking wine, watching the flowers and admiring the moon and composing poems and songs, and they could drink all day long, and when they were drunk, they fell asleep on other people's beds, even if they slept until the afternoon or evening of the next day. Nowadays, people drink either to numb their nerves and get some intoxication, or they have a very clear utilitarian purpose and purpose.

In fact, drinking has always had a very clear utilitarian purpose and purpose. We invite people to drink and hope that they will drink freely and happily. As long as the guests are happy, some things that can't be done are easy to talk. It is said that when China developed the J-10 fighter, it encountered some difficulties and wanted to buy Russian Su-27 fighters. But the Russians only want to sell the Su-29 and are reluctant to sell the Su-27 to us. The Chinese delegation insisted on buying the Su-27. Therefore, when the head of the Russian delegation invited the Chinese delegation to a banquet, he wanted to refuse the Chinese by drinking. Because they used this method to dispel the thoughts of the Vietnamese and Indians. They have to fight with the Chinese, and the wine they drink is the "yorsh", which is the most concentrated mixture of liquor and beer. As a result, a general named Lin Hu of the Chinese delegation actually killed 17 members of the Russian side in a row in order to get his hands on the Su-27. The Russian side was forced to sell the Su-27 to China. In Chinese history, there was a wine banquet called "Hongmen Banquet". Originally, Fan Zeng wanted to kill Liu Bang by setting up a banquet, but as soon as Xiang Yu drank a few glasses of wine, his mind was dizzy, and he was coaxed by Liu Bang's few kind words, so he couldn't figure out the southeast and northwest, not only let Liu Bang go, but also betrayed Cao Wuxian, who was undercover in the Han camp. It can be seen that drinking can benefit oneself at the wine table, or it can make oneself stunned and misleading.

Nowadays, people invite people to drink for a reason and purpose, either to get together to catch up, or to ask for something, or to repay gratitude. So, when someone invites you for a drink, you must find out what the other person has in mind and what they want. If you drink someone else's wine and they ask you something to embarrass you, you won't be able to turn them down. Nowadays, people have some money in their pockets, and drinking is not a difficult task. Even so, don't drink alcohol, drinking is addictive, drinking is harmful, drinking is wrong, drinking is causing trouble. How many evils in today's society do not come from drinking?

Some people will ask: Why does the country still produce alcohol when drinking alcohol is harmful? This is a stupid question. It's the same as why the country produces tobacco because smoking is harmful. Because the state feeds thousands of people by this habit of theirs. There are 700 million smokers in China, and there are probably 100 million or 200 million drinkers. They are paying a lot of taxes and spending for the country at the cost of their own health. Moreover, no one will thank them, on the contrary, people who drink and smoke are not only annoying to their families, but also to outsiders. Therefore, for the sake of your own health, longevity and safety, and for the peace and security of your family, please refrain from drinking alcohol. There is no reason to drink alcohol, the only reason is that you already have an addiction. Once you have an addiction to alcohol, you are already on the road to chronic suicide.