What to drink on New Year's Eve?

Drink Tu Su wine on New Year's Eve. -China No.1 Liquor.

New Year's Eve is extremely important for China people. On this day, people are ready to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and have a New Year's Eve dinner.

Since ancient times, even people who can't drink have to drink a little on New Year's Eve. According to ancient records, the previous wines mainly included fermented grapes, Wei Lan wine, Yichun wine, Mei Huajiu wine, peach blossom wine wine and Tu Su wine.

Among these wines, Tu Su wine is the oldest and most popular.

Tu Su is the name of a kind of grass. Some people say that Tu Su is an ancient house tail. Because of the wine brewed in this house, it is called Tu Su wine.

It is said that Tu Su wine was invented by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of Han Dynasty. Its formula is made of rhubarb, atractylodes macrocephala, cassia twig, divaricate Saposhnikovia root, pepper and aconite root soaked in wine, which was later spread by Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty.

Every year in the twelfth lunar month, Sun Simiao always sends a pack of medicine to neighbors, telling them to take medicine to soak wine and drink it on New Year's Eve, which can prevent epidemics.

Since then, after several generations, drinking Tu Su wine has become the custom of China New Year. In ancient times, Tu Su wine was drunk in a unique way. Most people drink alcohol, always starting from the elderly; But drinking Tu Su wine is just the opposite, starting with the smallest. That is to say, when a family gets together to drink Tu Su wine, they should start with the younger children and the older children should drink a little one by one.

Su Zhe, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Except for Japan": "Drinking Tu Su at the end of each year is not over 70 years old." It's a custom. Some people don't understand the meaning of this habit. Dong Xun explained: "Young people are old, so congratulations; The old man lost his age and was punished. "

This custom was still very popular in the Song Dynasty. For example, Su Shi's poem "Sleeping outside Changzhou" said: "Only learn to be poor and worried, and eventually drink Tu Su." Su Shi's spirit is still optimistic in his later years. He thinks that as long as he is healthy, he doesn't care even when he is old, so he will not refuse to drink Tu Su wine in the end.

In ancient times, this unique drinking order often caused people to have various emotions, so it left a deep impression on people. This custom remained unchanged until the Qing Dynasty. Although this custom is no longer popular on a large scale today, the custom of drinking these medicinal liquor still exists on festivals or at ordinary times.