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Nowadays, drinking at the dinner table has become a very common thing. If you come late, we can only say: you drank three rounds and tasted five dishes before you came.

What three trips do you mean by "drunk" in this sentence? Does this mean that you have had three drinks? Or did you call three times?

The source of "three tours"

The most common saying is that this sentence comes from the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, people invited guests to drink, and most of them sat on the floor. Everyone has a set of tableware, and when toasting, they don't walk around and have a drink. This kind of scene can be seen in many film and television dramas.

The slow introduction of the Hu bed made people have stools. Therefore, the invention of high table promoted the development of wine table culture. By the Tang dynasty, this scene of eating around the table had appeared. In Gong Le Tu in the Tang Dynasty, ladies-in-waiting ate around the table, and one of them poured wine for her with a long spoon, which made her feel like "patrolling the night".

What is "three wheels"?

The so-called "swimming" means walking back and forth. In the eyes of the ancients, "three tours" should be that the host filled the wine for the guests once and then turned around the guests. During the "three tours", the guests gradually left. This is called "drinking too much".

In fact, in the eyes of the ancients, "three tours" respectively represented some cultures on the wine table. Today, this "three tours" culture still applies.

One tour: stop when you arrive.

Generally, when guests are invited to dinner, it is inevitable that there will be friends they don't know. Strangers usually say: I can't drink well. In fact, these are all modest remarks made by the guests. The first glass of wine that is then held up is usually used as an entrance to chat. When drinking the first glass of wine, it shows that everyone knows each other and is relaxed. At this time, if you really have friends who can't drink, it's time to stop. At this time, it is generally the "one tour" moment in the "three tours of wine".

The second tour: getting better and better

The ancients used to say: every wine has a thousand cups of friends, and this time, the "Second Tour" began to toast each other. Everyone can speak freely, say whatever they want. Especially the new friends you don't know, these friends are generally familiar after the "second tour". At this time, there are three or four dishes on the table, which can make everyone eat and drink well. In fact, this "second patrol" is the golden age on the wine table. It is the business of the Bureau of Commerce, and it has been solved almost.

Three rounds: the meaning is still unfinished.

At the dinner table, the people you want to worship are basically over, and what you want to say is basically over. At this time, you can raise your glass and toast someone you want to respect, such as a leader or a new friend you just met. By this time, everyone is already drunk and sincere, especially the rhetoric between men is usually said at this time. Everyone has said enough about the "three tours" sign, the people they want to know and the things they want to solve, and the dinner is coming to an end.

So if only friends come to dinner now, say: you came here after three rounds of drunkenness. Then this sentence is the most appropriate. If it's just the beginning of the dinner, you can't tell this to your friends, you can only "just catch up."

What are the "five flavors of food"

In ancient people's production and life, people classified five special flavors as "five flavors", namely, sour, bitter, sweet and salty. Sweet means sweet and pungent means spicy, which are widely used in Chinese medicine culture.

In ancient times, acid refers to fruits, generally plums and apricots. This food is called "acid". In the Three Kingdoms, there is a story that Cao Cao led his troops to "look at the plum to quench their thirst". In fact, because of the sour taste of Merlin, everyone could not help drooling.

"Sweet" generally refers to the sweetness of ancient sugarcane. In ancient times, it was difficult to drink sugar water unless it was honey water or sugarcane. Sugar came from India.

In ancient times, spicy food was also a must-have delicacy on the table. There was a saying among the people that "you don't like spicy food", especially southerners, who especially like spicy food, so the ancients attributed "spicy food" to five flavors.

Saltiness generally refers to the salt we eat. Salt had a special position in ancient times. In ancient times, salt was the most indispensable thing for soldiers, so salt represented necessities in a certain sense.

Bitter taste was not common in ancient times, but generally appeared in some drugs. In ancient times, suffering meant many hardships in life. I've tasted all the sweets and bitters, leaving only bitterness.

At the dinner table, people eat all kinds of dishes, which is also a kind of sweet and sour taste. If a friend is late at this time, we can naturally say: You didn't come until you tasted everything. In fact, this means that we have eaten all kinds of dishes and tasted all kinds of dishes.

Modern "three rounds of wine, five flavors of food"

With the development of the times, some cultures on the wine table have new meanings. The ancients said that "three rounds of wine" represented a certain toast. Now we mean "three rounds". In contemporary wine table culture, we are used to sitting around the round table and toasting in circles. After three rounds, everyone actually drank three glasses of wine. This is similar to the "three patrols" of the ancients.

In modern society, we not only played it three times, but also drank it many times, almost to the state of being as drunk as a fiddler. "Three rounds" has become a general term or a morality. In fact, this "three rounds" has been "ten rounds".

And "five-flavor dish" has a new meaning, which we usually understand as "five-flavor dish". In fact, there are more than five sets of life now. There are more than a dozen large-scale dinners, and the CD operation continues.

This also reflects that in contemporary society, with the improvement of living standards, more interesting cultural phenomena have been extended to the dining table. People drink without restraint, and even don't eat a bite of food at the whole table, just drink, which is completely out of the meaning of "three rounds of wine, five flavors of food".

So we usually understand it bluntly: the wine is almost finished, and the matter is almost over. If nothing happens, you can leave first.