The Reality of Chinese Wine Culture is Sad Zhang Baotong 2018.2.12

China is an ancient country that has been passed down through poetry, and poets often express their nostalgia with wine, so there is a Chinese poetry and wine culture that "there must be wine if there is poetry, and poetry cannot be made without wine". Such as "persuade the gentleman to drink a glass of wine, and there is no one in Yangguan in the west", such as "Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, and a few people returned to the ancient battle" and "But so that the host can be drunk, I don't know where it is". Tao Yuanming returned to the countryside, completely forgetful, and couldn't help but write the poem "Drinking to escape the world, borrowing wine to drown sorrows". Cao Cao borrowed wine to play a song, and sighed a lot, "How can I solve my worries, only Du Kang!"

Perhaps the ancient Chinese literati all loved to drink, wine is fragrant in poetry, poetry flows in wine, and if you don't drink, you will lose your mood and interest, and you can't write good poems. Otherwise, how could there be a verse of "Li Bai's drunken poems of a thousand lines"? The ancients not only loved to drink, but also drank frighteningly, or listen to what "Will Enter the Wine" said: "You don't see the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, rushing to the sea and never returning; you don't see the sad white hair of the high hall mirror, like green silk turning into snow at dusk." Life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon, I am born to be useful, the daughter is scattered and come back, cook sheep and slaughter cattle and for fun, will have to drink three hundred cups. Master Cen, Dan Qiusheng, will enter the wine, and you will not stop. Sing a song with you, please listen to it for me, the bells and drums are not expensive enough, but I hope that I will not wake up after being drunk. The ancient sages were all lonely, and only the drinker left his name. In the past, King Chen feasted peacefully, and fought wine for ten thousand years. The master said that he had little money, and he had to sell it to the king. Five-flowered horses, daughters and daughters, Hu'er will exchange for fine wine, and sell eternal sorrow with you. ”

Looking at Li Bai's poetry and the amount of wine, it really shows the highest level of Chinese poetry and wine culture. It is estimated that no one in ancient and modern China and abroad dares to drink with it. We praise and sigh at his alcohol and poetry, but we are also glad that Li Bai is an ancient, not a modern person. Otherwise, I can't help but wonder if he is a wine fairy or an ordinary man? Is he single or has a family? Is he rich or poor?

I prefer to think of him as a wine fairy rather than an ordinary person. Because ordinary people don't say that they have to drink 300 cups at a time, but I hope that I will not wake up after a long time of drunkenness, even once or twice once in a while, it is also very scary. I don't talk about the others, I just talk about the friends and acquaintances around me. When I used to work in the railway education committee, I had a good friend from the trade union, who had been the vice-principal of the middle school for less than two years, and got drunk at a dinner table where he received guests, and never woke up. Because this is a death in the line of duty, the unit must be responsible for it and make the necessary compensation for the family. Not long ago, however, an acquaintance of mine was drinking with two other people. As a result, a person was drunk to death. The family of the deceased sued the court, and the court ruled that the other two should compensate the deceased, and each of them should pay more than 100,000 yuan for the other. The acquaintance I knew felt very wronged, but the court's verdict was just that.

Wine is a poison for our liver, heart, and stomach. It's just that this poison is not as immediate-killing as arsenic and poison, nor is it as terrifying as arsenic and poison. It is a mellow, slowly eroding poison that causes people a kind of chronic suicide. My closest golfer in primary and secondary school, who served as the secretary of the railway engineering team, was sent to the project all the year round, ate and drank, suffered from liver disease, and died of cirrhosis of the liver less than four months after retirement. And a couple of my good golfers who like to get together for a few days and have a couple of drinks. However, in the past two years, some people have been hospitalized with stomach bleeding, and some have developed liver and heart disease. In fact, their alcohol consumption is really far behind Li Bailai, but they are ordinary people, not wine fairies.

According to records, Li Bai was married twice and had a boy. However, both wives were short-lived, and his son was said to be a fool. Li Bai travels all year round, rarely stays at home, and when he drinks too much, he comes to inspiration, and writes poems one after another, known as the poet saint. This doesn't seem to cause conflict in the family, but his son is a fool, and this has nothing to do with him. Because drinking alcohol can cause dementia in later generations, which has been proven by modern medicine.

Li Bai is a poet, and he writes poems when he drinks too much. However, how many poets are there? Most of them are not poets, and if they blow too much, the concentration of alcohol in their blood will skyrocket, and the passions and impulses surging all over their bodies will have to have a place to go. I've read a lot of old books and want to find some good recipes from them. However, most of what I saw were some fights and swords drawn against each other. Wu Song rode through Jingyanggang with wine, Wu Song drunk and beat Jiang Menshen, and Wu Song killed his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian. These all seem to be related to drinking. "If he is Ling Yunzhi, he dares to laugh at Huang Chao's husband!" Song Jiang wanted to borrow wine to complain in Xunyang Building, but he wrote these complaints on the wall and was regarded as an anti-poem. If he hadn't drunk, he would never have caused himself this kind of trouble.

Alcohol is not only a poison, but also a drug, which is very addictive, paralyzing people's nerves, and making their minds unclear. Therefore, many drinkers, when they see wine, they die, and they are good at it, and then let people persuade them, they often can't keep the door, and if they drink too much, they will lose their temper at best, and they will be embarrassed and make trouble. Good friends used to catch up together, but I don't know which sentence was not good, and the two turned against each other. Some people drank too much and fell unconscious, so they fell on the road, or they went home to make a fuss, either beating their wives or scolding their children, which made their wives and children worried and unable to be at peace. Two years ago, a friend invited me to play mahjong. On the mahjong table next to it, there was a person who drank too much wine, because of the touch of cards, two very good card friends quarreled, quarreled and quarreled, and the two began to smash with chairs, and then the person who drank took out the fruit knife, so scared that we hurriedly pulled another person away. In fact, there are not a few cases of drunken trouble, beating the head and bleeding, and even killing people. There are also tragedies caused by drunk driving, which are even more shocking. Drinkers and drunkards are not only Chinese, but also foreigners. I heard from friends who went abroad and studied abroad that if you go out on the street at night in the UK, you can often see some young girls lying drunk on the street, and you just take her away and sell her, and she doesn't know it. In the Far East, young Russians are even more alcoholic, and if you give him a bottle of vodka, he will let you take his girlfriend away.