Wine and good deeds
Let's start by explaining that the word "good" is pronounced as (hào).
I wrote this article from the "Wine Recipe" article "The Matter of Wine". All because the author is also a "good" wine person, the cause is unknown, although this statement is unknown, but in fact there is a reason. When I was young, my family was not well-off, and no one in my family had a good drinker, so when I was a child, I didn't have the opportunity to drink, but I liked my own home-brewed "mash" (láozāo), which may have been called "drinking" hundreds of years ago. In fact, most of the reason was that there were no current economic conditions at that time, and there was nothing to adjust the taste except for three meals, and candy was probably only a little bit that could be fulfilled during the Spring Festival every year. Perhaps because of this, it is not considered "wine" in the eyes of my family, and I have not objected too much to it, so I basically ignore the alcohol contained in the mash, and change the taste and drink, which is probably a precursor to the author's good wine.
The interesting stories of the good wine people in the past generations contained in "The Matter of Wine", compared with the present, can be regarded as one or two, but the sages have gone. "Poetry" cloud: "There is wine to drink me, but there is no wine to drink me" and Confucius does not eat alcohol, because Confucius was in troubled times, and the harm of evil and hypocrisy has been, so he is suspicious and does not drink. Although he was in troubled times and did not dare to drink freely outside, Confucius's love for wine was obvious, and he did not stop drinking because he was afraid of being harmed by others. Confucius's worries would not have appeared in the current era of peace, and poisoning people with alcohol would not have escaped the discernment of high technology. However, Confucius's hobby is the same as that of many good drinkers today, not that he does not drink, but that he has his own drinking principles, and within the scope of the principles, even Confucius will "drum me, squat and dance me, and drink this when I am free." ”
There are examples of the sages, there should be a principle for drinking, in contemporary society, the first thing is not to break the law, whether it is the prohibition of alcohol in government agencies or the restriction of alcohol after drinking in the provisions of the law, it must be kept in mind. And reunions with friends, celebrations, family events and even national events are bound to be reconciled with "wine", so that there is no regret. Wine can help to entertain and dispel worries, which can not only enhance pride, but also add interest.
We often see the ancients drinking heavily in the classics, and the deepest memory is "Water Margin", which is a man who eats a few catties, but in fact, it is the relationship between quantitative standards and alcohol content. In ancient times, a "stone" (dà
) is equal to ten buckets. One bucket in ten liters. One liter in the Han Dynasty was equivalent to 200ml now, and the alcohol content was very low, similar to the alcohol content of today's sweet wine, so a few catties were nothing at that time. Bai Juyi once said, "The household is afraid of the sweetness of the wine, so he laughs at the poem", and the "household" here refers to the amount of alcohol. This means that people who drink a lot of alcohol think that the wine is too sweet and has less flavor. Later, the "liquor dew" was close to the current liquor, and according to China's strong aroma liquor standard, 25%vol liquor is already the limit standard of low-alcohol liquor. It is not known how much alcohol was in the earliest "wine dew", but it must be difficult to achieve even the current minimum standard, so it is also understandable why the ancients were a man who could drink booze, and there is also the heroic scene we see of heroes drinking bowl after bowl, bowl after bowl.
There are many people who avoid trouble, cause trouble, avoid the world, and enter the world because of drinking, and they abound.
The earliest record of avoiding misfortune due to alcohol is that of the uncle of the Shang Dynasty's Emperor 纣子 (箕子) (jī zǐ). I lost my armor for the long night drink, and asked the hundred officials, but I didn't know, and asked Yu Jizi. Jizi said: "If the monarch loses his day, his country is in danger; The people of the country do not know it, but I only know it, and I am in danger. "I don't know if I'm drunk. Miko's remarks were to protect himself, as the king of a country, he indulged in drinking all day and forgot the time, and asked the hundred officials, but no one knew what the results would be. Since no one knows about this outcome, why should I know, so don't ask me, I'll be in danger that way. So he excused himself and said that he was drunk, and he didn't know. Similarly, King Zhou also confirmed what Dayu said at the beginning, and there will be people who mislead the country because of drunkenness in later generations, and also gave one of the reasons for King Wu of Zhou to crusade when he overthrew the Shang Dynasty.
The most well-known is "Tao Yuanming", everyone remembers his retreat and "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", but in fact, the story of "white clothes sending wine" related to him also shows that he is a good wine, although he is dissatisfied with the tense, but he has no disgust with someone who uses wine to meet him. Tao Yuanming has been hidden many times in his life, and the last time he went out for a living, "Song Shu Tao Yuanming Biography" recorded that "Tao Qian is Peng Zeling, and the public fields are all ordered to plant millet." The wine is ripe, and the head is covered with a scarf (lù). It can be seen how eager Tao Yuanming is for good wine, and he actually used his own headscarf to filter the wine. I don't want to think about whether the headscarf is dirty or not! The three acres of public land were planted with rice that could be used to make wine, and after repeated protests from his wife, 50 acres of ordinary rice (jī) were divided
g) Rice, piles and piles of interesting things, it is really embarrassing, how can people of my generation compare.
From the Wei and Jin dynasties, the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" (Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Shantao, Xiang Xiu, Ruan Xian, Liu Ling, Wang Rong), Sui Zhi Wang Ji (word Wugong), Tang Zhi Li Bai (character Taibai), Song Zhi Tao Yuanming (character Yuan Liang, Qian) abound good wine people, it is because of these good wine people that have wine and good things, and later generations have the opportunity to see the romance of the day.
It can be seen from this that good wine is not a quirk, and there have been people who are almost obsessed with good wine and crazy in all generations, and there are also people who have achieved classic events and classic literature with good wine. Only with this "wine and good deeds" with you, do not seek good wine to achieve good things, but seek good wine not to miss the right business.