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Wine culture has some sense of history, did you know?

China has a long history of wine culture. Wine culture since the written record to the present, has been prosperous, through all aspects of our lives, from the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" Yi Di made wine, to folklore Du Kang made wine, the beginning of the sprouting of the ancient Chinese wine culture. In fact, Yi Di and Du Kang were not the first people to make wine. In the Paleolithic era, the ancients noticed the existence of natural wine, after a long history of evolution, into the Shang Dynasty, people with grain brewing is very common, the wind of drinking wine is also very prevalent, accompanied by the brewing, drinking wine flourished, the ancient Chinese culture of wine gradually formed.

Making wine, brewing wine, drinking wine, fighting wine, all kinds of wine will be gradually improved with the level of craftsmanship and change. The materials used for making wine vessels were various, including bamboo, wood, pottery, bronze, rhinoceros horn and ivory, etc. They were made into zun, goblet, square Yi, earthenware jar, wine container, pot, percussion, goblet, etc., and the fiancé of the wine vessel, the jug of the wine vessel, the goblet of the wine vessel, goblet of wine, etc., which were in strange styles, with detailed patterns and beautifully crafted to form the culture of wine vessels and artifacts. The ancient ruins of Yinxu culture, unearthed a large number of special wine utensils, confirming that this wine culture was fashionable in ancient times.

Brewing to the Shang Dynasty, wine culture is more standardized integration of human factors. The Shang dynasty, the Lords of the Song dynasty, the upper social classes, such as the scholarly class, addicted to alcohol, addicted to alcohol. The king of the Shang Dynasty competed "to wine for the pool, hanging meat for the forest, so that men and women naked chase each other between them, for a long night of drinking", to the point that the obscenity, dumped the family and lost the country. The Zhou dynasty to Shang as a lesson, issued the first ban on alcohol in Chinese history pop pop, the first time to the state power to regulate the production of alcohol, drinking alcohol. With the development of wine culture, especially the unique charm of wine, so that wine is repeatedly prohibited, the ban on alcohol was gradually relaxed. After the Zhou Dynasty, the brewing industry flourished, drinking was prevalent, the scholar and even the people can drink a few cups in the festival days, party drinking, drinking for fun, drinking to dispel the sorrows of the formation of a trend, so that the wine has become a hobby drink.

With the popularity of winemaking and drinking, people borrowed wine, wine to help poetry, produced a large number of songs and wine, praise wine, wine to smooth the heart of the song of the world's poems, sages and scholars like to perform the ancient order, elegant order, drinking wine must be performed, the general line of the people through the order. Wine order with wine to cheer up, the form is colorful, there are poems, songs, singing and, joint sentences, riddles, couplets, tongue-twisters, jokes, dangerous language, music, dance, throwing pots, archery, chess, guessing, reporting the number of rolls of the dice, etc., the line of the order of the wine can be inspired by the intellect of the people, but also consider the amount of alcohol drinkers. Wine culture gradually infiltrated into the words of the literati poetry and literature, on the hall of elegance.